Beautiful signs of children in your home

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What are some of the beautiful signs of little people’s lives in your home?

In our home there’s a train track running through the hall leading to a castle made of magnet tiles populated by various little figures. One windowsill has been designated the Sticker Window and there are shiny little stickers all over it- achievements from nursery or from trips to the dentist. There are mucky hand and nose prints on the window. The Yoto player is still jingling away from earlier this morning and there are blankets pegged up around his room to make dens.

Wake up on the wrong side of bed this morning, did you?

My fridge is covered in little certificates and praise stickers / school awards, we’ve nickname it the ‘Fridge of Glory’ 🙂
There’s also about 185,000 odd and multicoloured socks waiting to be paired with their lost relatives in a basket in my utility room.
Everything in my house from about a metre high, down, is mildly sticky despite constant cleaning - but one day it won’t be and I fully suspect I’ll miss it.

What a lovely thread. My house is a bit of a mess to be honest this morning but you have given me a different perspective of it. Its not a mess, its a beautiful sign of the lovely little people that live here :)

I better tidy up though lol!

My two are teenagers now, so it’s all empty packets and dumped clothing. However, I have two plant pots on the windowsill decorated by each of them in primary school, which usually hold half dead basil plants and will stay there for the foreseeable. And there are various Lego constructions randomly dotted around the house. DS1 is 17 and still occasionally plays with his Lego. I miss all the wooden railways and Nerf guns and chairs placed back to back with blankets chucked over them and no cushions left on the sofas😅 They really were the best days.

Pudsey ears are still on my bed from last week.
Various toys still on my bench style footstool, but my favourite is the Duplo house and figures that my nearly 4 year old loves playing with - it's special to me because it was a birthday present for MY 1st birthday. I never tidy it away because she goes to play with it nearly every day she's with me (she's with her had half the week)
Oh, also, the flashy star want DD got at a local Christmas light switch on last week - she started using it as a "barrier" saying it was locked so I couldn't pass last night as she watched TV (love her imagination!)

You could be mistaken for thinking I live in a garage for all the cars that are in every place possible 😂

Bits of wool... eldest is learning to knit.

What a lovely thread. We have a pillar in our main lounge that my youngest two put their achievement certificates on from school and pictures that they draw that they are particularly proud of. I was thinking of taking them all down to expose the brick so that it’s a smart part of my room again but this has made me change my mind. The children love it so much and so it’s staying. But it’s on borrowed time 😝

I have a teenager, so it’s abandoned crumby plates, laundry and footballs, but I still occasionally find Nerf gun bullets and bits of Lego, his cherished soft toy is still cherished, and there’s a fair bit of photographic and craft-related evidence that he was an adorable gap-toothed six year old with a surreal imagination.

I always wanted a door covered in drawings.
I eventually got it.
Youngest is 21, I ought to take them down ...

Well my 5 yo DS has SEN and he loves to line up books. He finds books by the same author or, if they are my books by the same publisher, and lines them up in rows. He particularly likes Penguin books and so on his bedroom floor right now he has a real selection of Woolf, Nabokov, Chaucer, Kerouac… I could go on. Legit went to bed with The Canterbury Tales last night.

Ours is lots of different coloured converse - obviously just tossed around the floor of the shoe rack (to be tripped over by anyone not paying attention)and not on the shelves themselves! 🤦‍♀️❤️

A long time since we've had a little one in the house, but one things I always love to see is their drawings/colouring on display.

We have one door frame that’s not been painted over which has all of their heights still pencilled onto it.

Overflowing laundry basket 😂 back seat of the car full of rubbish 😄

My son has got a habit of writing silly words on post it notes (like poo, bum, willy) and leaving them for me to 'find' .
At least he is practising his writing skills hahahaha

Conkers, so many conkers. Dried leaves, the odd stick. Artwork on the shelves. Swimming certificates. Many aprons in the kitchen. Puzzles on the window sill. Mud in the hallway that reappears the minute I’ve swept, old wellies, new wellies, so many wellies. Those fabric dates and months that are always between the sofa cushions.

There are always signs 😂

Photographs we’ve had up for years and won’t take down, because they are brilliant.

They aren’t little anymore though. 6’3” and 23 and about 6”1’ and 18, although the 18 year old is at Uni, still very visible in the house, as it should be.

It's a nice brain reset isn't it? I used to find it all really overwhelming, then mum one day casually said 'there are a just a number of years where your kids are more visible, and that's what you're in'. It totally reframed my thinking. It won't last long, and these are the days people seem to miss. So now I try to tidy less and be present more. Though now and again I still have to do a full house reset for my mental health 🤣

I feel like noone warned me about the number of sticks. At one point we had an old wine rack outside as a makeshift 'stick stack' 🤣 another friend keeps hers in a vase. Her kids are way past the point of bringing back sticks now but she's not allowed to empty the vase.

my babies are big now, but i do remember coming into the bathroom one afternoon and finding an empty petit fleu yogurt pot, and a calpol syringe! miss those random things round the house.

I'd love to see more evidence in my house of my little people's lives, since I'm always at work, but my SAHP DH clears everything away all the time and shouts at the kids about the mess. Makes me so sad.

Theres a glass jar full of acorns and twigs on my mantelpiece - apparently it is ‘treasure from the woods’ and I’m not allowed to move it.

We also have a row of magnets too low down to be decorative on the fridge, a Duplo bridge with a monster underneath on the living room floor and a yoyo on my work desk.
Yesterday it was walking to the shop and finding a pair of tiny dinosaur mittens and a random car in my coat pockets 😂

I’ve had a long road to becoming a parent (adoption) and I’m with you OP, having signs of a happy LO in your house gives the place a lovely feeling.

I love this. I often find tiny dinosaurs hiding in my bag, coat pockets and sometimes in my socks 🤣