Yep. There are definitely some cons to having lots of people in your house! These are some of the funnier ones. Hope they make you giggle.
Con 1: You will always have a monster of an odd sock pile. There is no solution to that problem, other than throwing the pile out and starting again. If drastic action isn't taken, the pile will start eating more of your sock pairs until you lose all care about them matching. :)
Con 2. Your hairbrush is always AWOL. Always. Infact, you will find that the hairbrushes are in fact a covert army of soldiers. They hide together and appear together. You either have a surplus or none. And you won't need the brush when they are everywhere.
Con 3. Time in the bathroom comes at a premium. It will stand empty for hours and then once one person realises they need the bathroom, EVERYONE realises they need the bathroom!
Con 4. Kisses and hugs can be taken for granted if you're not careful. They are a gift. But when there are so many arms around your neck that you are certain you are turning blue.... well, it can almost appear to be a negative. Keep it in perspective. Hugs are great. Even the near-strangling kind.
Con 5. Packets of food are no longer an all-week-supply. They are an at-a-sitting supply. If you're not there to open the packet, you won't get any, so be quick!
Con 6. You learn to be 'deaf' until 'non-deaf' company is over, then you realise it is loud at your house! Yep, it is true. I don't notice the noise. It no longer stresses me out. It is normal. Then someone without lots of little people comes over and I hear it all in stereo surround sound!
Con 7. Cookbooks become the new novel! It's the only thing you have time to read. Sad, but true. Either that or you know that if you start reading a novel, you'll get so hooked on it that the children will be eating Corn Flakes for the next week, while you try to 'see what happens'! So you refrain.
Con 8. You accidently call your husband 'Daddy', even though the children are asleep in bed. Yes, I have done this. And laughed hard about it.
Con 9. You get mistaken for a day-carer or school group when you are trying to do your shopping. This is usually momentary with us. Our children are all pretty, well, similar looking. People usually ask and then say, "No, no, they must be all yours, they all look the same!" I have so wanted to add, "Why would I volunteer to take other people's children to the supermarket?"
Con 10. You go to bed, only to step on a matchbox car en route, and find a book and biscuit crumbs under your pillow and your water is all gone.
There you have it. Some cons when living in a larger than average family.
But you've got to agree, these are cons well worth living with. Because the pros are simply marvellous!!
God bless,
Sara
Con 1: You will always have a monster of an odd sock pile. There is no solution to that problem, other than throwing the pile out and starting again. If drastic action isn't taken, the pile will start eating more of your sock pairs until you lose all care about them matching. :)
Con 2. Your hairbrush is always AWOL. Always. Infact, you will find that the hairbrushes are in fact a covert army of soldiers. They hide together and appear together. You either have a surplus or none. And you won't need the brush when they are everywhere.
Con 3. Time in the bathroom comes at a premium. It will stand empty for hours and then once one person realises they need the bathroom, EVERYONE realises they need the bathroom!
Con 4. Kisses and hugs can be taken for granted if you're not careful. They are a gift. But when there are so many arms around your neck that you are certain you are turning blue.... well, it can almost appear to be a negative. Keep it in perspective. Hugs are great. Even the near-strangling kind.
Con 5. Packets of food are no longer an all-week-supply. They are an at-a-sitting supply. If you're not there to open the packet, you won't get any, so be quick!
Con 6. You learn to be 'deaf' until 'non-deaf' company is over, then you realise it is loud at your house! Yep, it is true. I don't notice the noise. It no longer stresses me out. It is normal. Then someone without lots of little people comes over and I hear it all in stereo surround sound!
Con 7. Cookbooks become the new novel! It's the only thing you have time to read. Sad, but true. Either that or you know that if you start reading a novel, you'll get so hooked on it that the children will be eating Corn Flakes for the next week, while you try to 'see what happens'! So you refrain.
Con 8. You accidently call your husband 'Daddy', even though the children are asleep in bed. Yes, I have done this. And laughed hard about it.
Con 9. You get mistaken for a day-carer or school group when you are trying to do your shopping. This is usually momentary with us. Our children are all pretty, well, similar looking. People usually ask and then say, "No, no, they must be all yours, they all look the same!" I have so wanted to add, "Why would I volunteer to take other people's children to the supermarket?"
Con 10. You go to bed, only to step on a matchbox car en route, and find a book and biscuit crumbs under your pillow and your water is all gone.
There you have it. Some cons when living in a larger than average family.
But you've got to agree, these are cons well worth living with. Because the pros are simply marvellous!!
God bless,
Sara
Love it!
ReplyDeleteYes, I know those 10 pretty well :-)
This made me smile! :)
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I love this: "Why would I volunteer to take other people's children to the supermarket?"
ReplyDeleteThus far, there are only three children in my household (soon to be four), but I grew up as one of many. We laughed and laughed one day when, walking through Wal-Mart, my sister heard a little girl who had just passed us say, "Look, Mommy - a parade!"
Cute and true!
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Alison
So cute! Love these.
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Good list! I have a cupboard in my laundry area and I just "shove" the lone socks in there until later on I'll say to myself "hmm,I think I might have a match to that in the cupboard..." LOL
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing!
I just "shared" this on facebook because my husband thought it was so much "us" that I had written it (but I wouldn't have been that eloquent!!).
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness this is so true!
ReplyDeleteActually not only do I call my dh daddy now and then- I've actually given him a sippy cup with dinner- my distracted self!
And funny what you say about how you don't notice the noise until other people are here! That is so true! Weird what you get used to- and then outsiders come and you realize it is weird! (Not to mention the 100 other imperfections in my house that I no longer notice..until company!)
And the socks? Oh the socks. I'm thinking I might just dye the entire lot of them black and then I could use them all....
or i'll burn them. (I have PTSSD- see the link.)
http://www.weakandloved.com/2011/10/raising-awareness-ptssd.html
Great post today!
LOVED #2 and #5!
ReplyDeleteLoved it!
ReplyDeleteThere were 4 of us when I was growing up. I remember the bathroom thing, especially when we only had one bathroom. When we moved to a house with 2 bathrooms we were so happy. Even with just Mr. Random and I using bathrooms we sometimes ran into that problem until we got 2 bathrooms.
ReplyDeleteI would love it if you would share this (and anything else you have been working on) at my party! http://domesticrandomness.blogspot.com/2013/01/friday-fascinations-9-everything-linky.html
The picture cracks me up - my daughter is in the same stage right now. :)
ReplyDeleteso true! thanks for the chuckle this morning. :0) I'd call these 10 sweet difficulties, and wouldn't give up any of them.
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