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.

Ah i really miss the days when my hall and dining room was an obstacle course of much loved brio train lines!!

I cleaned dog vomit off the top of the stairs this morning after he ate a hair bobble does that count? I also picked my kids pants up off the bathroom floor and rescued a butter knife out of her bed and switched her nosiy bloody TV off. She is 14 though so the signs that she is here are often things I'd happily live with out! Am off to get the hoover out to clear up the fluff all over the living room carpet from where she was messing about with her hot water bottle cover this morning before she went to school!

GC all older teenagers but we still have the height chart up, photos on freezer and endless boxes of board games.

The toy kitchen in the kitchen and currently felt tip pens and Christmas colouring all over the dining table that she forgot to put away before school

I needed this thread- I spend so much time trying to keep the house tidy I forget that it’s beautiful to see signs of my children enjoying life. Although I do wish my furniture wasn’t all covered in a film of yoghurt.

Fingerprints
Food they love in the fridge
Wellies, just in case
Wipes in every room
Potties in the bathrooms
My grandchildren are so messy and so wonderful

It’s harder to find signs of adults in our house, they’ve taken over every room 😂 currently have toy box & dressing up box in the living room and some half made Lego on the coffee table, and the dining room has been turned into a “theatre” for them to do their shows. The theatre is some chairs with fairly lights strung between them, cushions and a poinsettia on the floor. Upstairs my bed is half toys because DS1 is going through a scared of the dark phase and decided to sleep in with me; he’s 6 so I’m enjoying it while it lasts.

The one I love is my dining table. It's just a cheap IKEA one and it's covered in paint and pen stains. I don't know how I'll ever get rid of it.

Your children will remember your home being theirs too. My MIL was a primary school teacher and it always broke her heart when children asked if their art work could stay at school and put up in the classroom. Parents of these kids threw their work away once it got home as it made the house look untidy ☹️

Glasses and plates left by the side of the sink. Wet towel on the bed. Crumbs all over the worktop. Giant trainers in the hall way. My car gone while I’m waiting to go shopping. Youngest son still living at home. I ❤️ it x

Aw. This has made me all sentimental for when my DC were tiny. I do still, however, occsionally find the tiniest rainbow stickers you've ever seen stuck to skirting boards and the floor in random places. Took me ages to notice them because I am a myopic slattern who can't see and never cleans properly. DD, who was approx four at the time, told me they were 'Unicorn Stops' (like bus stops but where you can hitch a ride on a unicorn, apparently). Very rarely these days, one shows up and I wonder if the Unicorn Bus is still running a limited service.

Lovely thread. We used to have random 'sculptures' around the house e.g. a clothes hanger with toys hanging off it and stacked toys on a muslin cloth. I'm glad I took photos as that's now been replaced by random drinks glasses, clothes and cut off tags.

Just thought, we still have a collection of assorted tiny plastic animals and figures along the doorframe in the bathroom that the kids placed there by standing on top of the bath. That makes me smile when I remember they're there.

Mine are all grown up but we still had their wonderful artwork on the walls and things the made dotted around.

It's lovely and makes our house a home.

Seven billion sticks at the front door. A collection of random stones, conkers, leaves and other treasures rescued from pockets before they destroy my washing machine. Dinosaurs in my house plants and bath, stones with googly eyes on shelves and pencils everwhere. I also have an encyclopedic knowledge of Zoe's zoo and rainbow fairies... and don't get me started on the kinder egg tortoises 'hibernating' in a Clarks shoe box with shredded newspaper under the coffee table.. I am hoping they are not expected to remain there till spring!!

DS certificate from Santa saying he's on the nice list is on display on the lounge shelves. 🎅
There is a toy in every room, 🚗
Artwork on the fridge, 🎨
DS helmet and scooter are by the front door, 🛴
His toothbrush and cup is still on the sofa from rushing out this morning. 🪥

Not hugely messy, but lovely and lived in 🥰

My favourites are the badly spelled notes. DD is 5 so writing is still a novelty for her. I had a bad cold last week and there's a note on my bedside table that says, "I hope you get bet sun I love you."

She had a fierce debate with my husband over whether his cat was actually her cat (he's absolutely his cat, he follows him around like a shadow) and he got the passive aggressive note, "You are alowd to stroc my cat."

And stuck to the wall in the hallway, "a konsut corld it mit be a littl kookoo >" from her latest musical offering, which we were forced invited to attend.

Cars and balls….everywhere!!
venture into our kitchen and you will find a section of those small kitchen drawers entirely dedicated to hot wheels. It has been this way for 5 years running from my oldest son to youngest who has now taken the baton!
For my oldest it’s balls….footballs, tennis, bouncy. We often joke you can walk into a room without a ball wizzing past your nose when he is around.

All their crafts from school/nursery, post it notes from a treasure hunt, pokemon cards everywhere!

She had a fierce debate with my husband over whether his cat was actually her cat (he's absolutely his cat, he follows him around like a shadow) and he got the passive aggressive note, "You are alowd to stroc my cat."

This is fabulous.

I don't have kids and I'll be honest, I do like my house the way it is without all the toys and paraphernalia. But I love seeing that sort of stuff in my friends' houses. My favourite thing when I go to friends' houses where they have kids is seeing all the artwork and stuff they bring home from school. Honestly, parents, please always display the shit out of everything they make! I love it. Last time I went to one friend's place there was a truly magnificent, mildly terrifying, papier mache owl on top of the fridge, and a painting of a smiling big cat helpfully labelled 'JAGYOOER IN THE RAIN FORRIST'. Outstanding work.

Cuddly toys in every room along with a million and one hair clips that just appear everywhere!

My kitchen cupboards are covered in colourful drawings.

Our back door window has beautiful artwork after I got her some glass pens.

We have a hat stand by the back door with bike helmets and shin pads in various sizes (4 kids plus ours). I love how that looks. Also snow suits all lined up on pegs...... this time of year is more messy with outdoor things but I like it! Wellies have gone to school today for 3 eldest but I love when we've come in from a walk and we line all the wellies up on the mat to dry. 😍

My toddler painted the windows with his toothbrush and toothpaste this morning while I was in the shower

My mum has a walk-in cupboard with a door in terrible condition that really needs replacing/painting, but she refuses to get rid of it because it's still got all our heights marked on the inside from when we were growing up and various crappy old stickers.

For context, we are now 49, 56 and 59. Some of the stickers have been there since 1980.

My sons would always, without fail, pick a stick up on walks. We took every stick home and eventually had a stack of all the sticks from all the walks outside our front door.

Youngest is now studying mechanical engineering and the stick stack has been replaced by a project van on bricks!