Pobody's Nerfect

The nice thing about this blog is that I can pick and choose which moments to capture for posterity. And, while my blog writings are truthful, and I try not to leave any important details out, I still have final authority about the picture that gets painted.

If I wanted, I could just limit my blog postings to cute little stories about the kids, ones that only reflected positive, organized, first-class parenting moments.

But that's not what this house is like.

I could write a story about the time I let the kids go to bed without brushing their teeth because I was out of kids' toothpaste and didn't feel like dealing with it.

Or the time I put Sophie back in her bed minus a crib sheet when she'd had a diaper mishap in the middle of the night, because I was too sleepy to change it. And it stayed like that for over a week.

Or how I routinely never get clothes put away before they are worn again, beyond folding them in piles on the bedroom floor.

Or how Travis and Noah found the craft bucket of yarn in their room and used it to turn their bedroom into a full-blown obstacle course, somewhat resembling those laser beam security systems, all Mission:Impossible-style.

Or how Sophie got into my purse while we were shopping at Meijer, and while I wasn't paying attention, managed to peel all the stamps out of my book of stamps and affix them haphazardly to her shirt ("ooh, stickers!").

I could tell the story about how we went to a New Year's Eve gathering at a friend's house; I was getting the kids ready to head over, and noticed that Sophie had put her own boots on. She had been barefoot a couple minutes earlier, so I felt inside her boots to see if she had also put on socks. Affirmative. When we get to said friend's house, Sophie took off her boots and had one pink and one lime green glove sticking off each of her feet.

The point is, my life is not always storybook moments.

Sometimes, this family is a wreck.

Most of the time, our house is chaos.

My kids wear gloves on their feet to social gatherings.

But, we're cute.