What does your child occupied house look like today?

[Molehillmountain]

I'm having a bad couple of days house wise, mess multiplying and tired from non sleeping baby and children who I love, but can make the house go from tidy to burgled in minutes. What does your house look like now, a kind of snap shot?

Sigh...I have made bad choices today! I chose to have bath with cup of tea and toastie double while dd slept. I was gambling on it being a long sleep to allow many other things to be done whilst sleep continued. But dd is teething and is awake after half an hour. My snapshot is really low level untidiness but throughout the house. Harry potter glasses, space auit, bag with hundreds of random bits and pieces to be rehomed, to return to dressing up box, stuff from cutting and sticking before school to go back, dd2's emptying of baskets to be returned to baskets. Floury footprints to be hoovered up from where a new packet fell on the floor. So sorting will require schlepping dd around in sling or doing quick bits and dashing back and forth to clap hands a lot and change the objects within her grasp. Or...imagining it gone and escaping to a coffee shop.

You made the right choice Mole.

The eternal debate: Rest or Housework while child sleeps has been raging for centuries

us slatterns Clever people always choose MN Rest as happy mother = happy baby

It was nice actually . And if I am very lucky then dd2 may be going back to sleep. Eyes are heavy as she feeds-it'll all be in the transfer!

Mine is a mess today as me and dp are decorating dd1's bedroom so dd3 and dd4 have had as many toys out as they wish just so that we can get on! I'm hoping to have all 3 children's bedrooms finished by Friday so will have a huge clean and tidy up then.

is there an epidemic of sickness bugs amongst toy monsters cos ours has one too! DS regularly emptiews his cars all over the floor and DDs favourite pastime is currently pulling all the books of the shelves. Kitchen has permanent cement of weetabix on the floor and about four juice cups littering the place.

Just done my living room so it is soooo tidy. Recon it will last about ten minutes if that. Kitchen has been done as well so that will be fine till dinner time. I love a clean house but it just feels like a battle I can't win. Tuesday is my main cleaning day so I go at it but ask me again Friday :)

And...relax have precisely fifteen mins between downstairs becoming tidy and hoovered and beginning the school run that will be its undoing! Upstairs...another day.

Trixie - I feel your pain on the bookshelf emptying front. At least I've hidden the jigsaw books now!!!

This thread has made me feel normal again instead of rubbish mother

Kitchen WAS tidy. Just finished making the dinners... so back to 'bomb site'.

lIving room:
loo roll and sick bowl in the living room,
3 empty cups, crumb filled carpet,
thick dust cos ive now not dusted for 2 weeks,
todays post on the floor,
cushions all array,
hot water bottle abandoned
thick fleece, on the floor and 2 empty crisp pakets.

Kitchen:
Remenats and mess after dh made bacon butties this morning.

bathroom desperateley needs cleaning.

shittip in other words......do i care.
NAAAAA
all i care about is that my little boy is now on the mend afetr a raging tummy bug. relief...he is now able to eat

I tried not tidying at all for a week a fortnight ago, thinking that there must a point at which it cannot get any messier and that point couldn't be far off the mess in our house. There is no such point. It just became dangerous to move. I'm still tidying up after that disastrous experiment. And with half term, everybody (including myself) is messing everything up behind me. Reminds me of the Litterbug in Charlie Chalk (we've had that episode on repeat for the last two hours).