Today my cousin Gena brought her 2 adorable children Sam (5) and Evelyn (2) to my house for a few hours while she got some things done. Also my Aunt Barbara had to work today, so she brought over her granddaughter Kendra (6) right before lunch. That means, including my little Livie ( 9 months), I had 4 children under the age of six at my house for the better part of the day. Addison is still in Atlanta at Camp Yaya/Aunt April and she will be so sad when she finds out she missed out on the fun. I am so thankful that I got the chance to spend some time with them and get to know them a bit better and they are all really good kids…BUT…

Let me just say….I DO NOT know how mom’s with this many young kids get anything done around the house! How do Jon and Kate do it?!

Now, I realize that many many women do this every day and I guess that just makes me a mommy lightweight. My girls are 6 1/2 years apart, so I am just not used to trying to breastfeed a wiggly baby, while keeping up with a toddler, while helping a 5 year old get up on our “tall toilet”, while telling a 6 year old “No you CANNOT have a diet coke!”

Side note: In reference to the “tall toilet” it really is freakishly tall. I am vertically challenged and this might be TMI, but even MY feet don’t lay flat on the floor when I am well….going.

So needless to say, I didn’t get a whole lot of housework accomplished today. The dishwasher was wide open and half unloaded for hours ,while the dishes that I had taken out were all over the counter waiting for me to put them away. Not one stitch of laundry was washed or dried or folded.

But you know what? I had fun with those crazy kids today! We ate lunch on the deck

…until the flies landing on sippy cups and peanut butter sandwiches became a point of anxiety for me. I started to think back on a certain family….yes THAT family.

It was a letter to Mr.Fly.

You may have met Mr Fly…or his brother Darryl, or his other brother Darryl.

Oh yeah you know him…he’s the one who poops and vomits every time he lands. Sooo I moved the kids back inside to the kitchen table. No one is ingesting fly poop or fly vomit on my watch.

I am dedicated to my commitment to prevent children everywhere from ingesting fecal matter….no matter how microscopic.

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