We did not feed the children ice cream topped with magic shell (yuck!) for dinner last night.
Now that Nicholas (18 months) has moved out of his crib, he does not spend some of each night sleeping on the floor. He also does not go from one of his brothers to the other snuggling up with them and trying to take over their bed. Our children all sleep in their own bed and never wander at night.
Mark did not come into the bathroom and startle because he thought that our tall, and stacked much, much taller, laundry hamper was actually a person standing behind the bathroom door. I have a system to get through our laundry regularly and always follow it faithfully, so our laundry would never be stacked nearly as tall as a person.
I did not consider taking pictures of the empty laundry hamper and area earlier last week to document the fact that I was caught up on laundry. I’m always caught up on laundry, so there would be no need to document the fact.
Our children did not use window crayons on the walls
nor markers on the floor.
If they ever tired such shenanigans we’d certainly catch them
long before they had time 
to use several different media
to thoroughly decorate multiple surfaces.
I do not know for a fact that when they run out of window crayons, children can have fun using regular crayons to draw on windows but that it takes a serious level of commitment and elbow grease to get regular crayon back off of the windows. *ahem*
There are a lot more denials where this one came from. Here is my collection of Not Me Mondays.
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Oh, I can soooo identify! I did *not* decide to get out the window crayons to keep all the kids in our small group (17 of them in all) occupied while I got our kitchen cleaned up one night. And they did *not* get it all over our windowsills, carpets, and somebody certainly did not rip off the tips of three of the crayons. Of course, I know the value of educating children on the proper use of window crayons and would have thoroughly trained the 17 children in these tools!
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Raising Olives Reply:
November 10th, 2009 at 2:00 am
17?! *shudder*
Did it come out of the carpets?
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Michelle Reply:
November 10th, 2009 at 10:13 am
It did come out of the carpets, with some all-purpose cleaner and a lot of elbow grease! Boy, I learned from that experience. On the nights that we don’t have babysitters, my kitchen waits until everyone goes home before it gets cleaned up!
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Heehee!
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Yep…and I have not fed my kids cookies for breakfast before.
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Ohhhh my! You are gonna have biceps of steel from cleaning all of that…hey maybe a new exercise video idea! ‘Shredding with Crayola’…could make you a fortune, lol! Great post, Kim
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I want to see a picture of the laundry pile that scared your husband. Wonder why your laundry system fell apart this week??? If I don’t get to see you in person anymore and give you a hard time then I’ll just have to do it here. By the way, what were you saying about finding out info. from your mom and not from me straight? The Bible says to do unto others what you would have them do to you not what they have done to you! get it?
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Raising Olives Reply:
November 10th, 2009 at 2:09 am
Alright Ms. Snark.
I have a couple of things to say to you.
First, you made Mark’s night when I told him you wanted to see a picture of the laundry pile that scared him. (I think he just wants evidence.)
Next, you started the whole “find-things-out-through-mom” trend.
And last, I called you, you owe me. I think that a visit would absolve your debt.
Thanks for the chat, love you!
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I am so glad that our family is not the only family like that! We still have rice on our kithcen ceiling that the kids threw, and, yes, crayon marks on various walls, and our children do sleep in different rooms every night and…
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I LOVE the picture of your son with markers! I have very similar ones… and I cherish them!! I was definitely NOT a fan of Sharpies on the wall – but the hidden blessing was it got my husband to paint several rooms!
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It’s so nice to know that other moms don’t feed their children ice cream for dinner. I, for one, would never have allowed my children to do so last night to help cool their mouths after allowing them to eat spicy beef jerky. No, I would never do that.
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Oh yes, I am always caught up on my laundry too. I can totally see why there would be no need to document that fact
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I can’t begin to imagine what YOUR laundry must be like, so I’ll focus on the art work.
Very pretty
And let me know the next time you’re serving ice cream for dinner….
Lucy
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Raising Olives Reply:
November 12th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Thanks Helen!
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Yes, I am always caught up on laundry also. This is why I don’t really have 7 loads lined up in the hallway right now! (Had to divide the monster into piles so I wouldn’t hyperventilate at the thought of getting it finished.) It seems more managable now…baby steps.
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Raising Olives Reply:
November 12th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Dividing the monster – good. Hyperventilating – bad. Baby steps.
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I have one to add to that. My kids never use sharpies to color pictures with and then accidentally color the furniture as well!! haha I would never leave them unsupervised for that long either!
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Raising Olives Reply:
November 12th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
No, I know you wouldn’t, always on them like a duck on a June Bug (or something like that).
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Yes, we don’t have my son’s artwork in pen all over one couch. (Luckily he chose the one we bought second-hand) Or on the still newly-painted bathroom wall. And I certainly NEVER let laundry pile up. No, never. I ALWAYS cook a proper dinner—it’s NEVER cereal with milk (and a little sugar), cookies, or—pumpkin pie. Of course, if it ever WERE pumpkin pie, everyone knows pumpkin is a vegetable.
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Raising Olives Reply:
November 12th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Yes, pumpkin is a vegetable, so pumpkin pie is a completely acceptable dinner…… or breakfast for that matter.
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Icecream for dinner…what a COOL mom
Also-what a brave mama for letting her 18 month old out of the crib…wow! Hope you have a great Monday!
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I know all about that elbow grease required to get regular crayon off of windows… sigh…
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Raising Olives Reply:
November 18th, 2009 at 2:11 am
I was surprised by the work. It’s easier getting crayon off of the wall than the window.
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