Mediocrity Tag

My sister responded to this post by her friend, and then forced me to do it. I'm sure you will all be so surprised to see imperfections from the Price household....


The challenge:

"Enough already! I sit down for a walk down acquaintance lane, and while perusing through the blogs of friends and family I'm accosted with massive amounts of over-achieving. It's not a true example of historic accuracy. Where are the TV watching, preservative eating, unvacuumed lives of my peeps? So TAG!!!! I challenge all who read this plea, to put down their craft projects, and t-ball trophies---just for a few hours, and let me see the human side of your lives. I'm not asking for a video account of you losing your temper after one of your 45 sons pees in the garbage can. Maybe just a picture of an unmade bed, or a mole with hair growing out of it. ---Am I the only one who occasionally feels a little green with envy after a half-hour of blog surfing?"


So here goes. First, a little explanation. Today is day 2 of Spring Break for Ethan. With the weekend and yesterday, we have had 3 full days of brotherly bonding, which usually leads to brotherly battles. I was fed up. I have pretty much banished them to the backyard today. So except for the occasional (as in every 5 minutes) fight I have to break up out there, I have had peace and quiet in my house, which means the number of toys on the floor today is about a 10th of the usual amount.


Here's a little look around:

This is the state of the desk that I am sitting at as I waste time on the computer.

This is the living room. Notice the cups and bowls. Those are from breakfast when I gave the boys dry cold cereal and chocolate milk as they watched PBS kids and I went back to bed with Sadie. (And yes, I still have my 5-year-old drink out of a sippy cup when he's on the carpet). Also, the Flubber case from when I let them watch a movie after lunch. 2 cartoons and a movie today. We're doing good.

And here is lunch still waiting to be cleaned up. That was only 3 hours ago.

3 loads of laundry in my room. It was on the couch, but I moved it to my room when we had friends come over Sunday night. It is still not folded. Behind the pile are the things I took down off our walls when we rearranged our room 2 months ago. They have not yet been put back up.

Two more loads of laundry. If you count the load that is waiting in the dryer, I have 6 loads of laundry to be folded. Yikes.

Here's Ethan. He's had a runny nose for the last few days and since he wipes it with his hands after playing in the dirt, he ends up with a nasty looking upper lip.

And Colby. He's wearing a ninja turtle shirt that his nice Aunt Kerri found for him for $0.34. He loves it. I hate it. I try to hide it from him, but he still requests it. This is his third time wearing it and he just got it 2 weeks ago. I do have to admit it is a good one for Saint Patty's day since it is a "mean green smackdown machine". No one would dare pinch him.

Just a typical day around here....

Now lets see some other REAL lives out there.