I was sent this questionaire by the moms group I belong to in the efforts of "getting to know me better" - if it so behoves you to know what life under our roof is like - read on and if you make it to the end, Bless You.
1. How many adults are in your household? 2 - Todd 38 and Me 30 (soon to be 39 and 31 - our birthdays are March 15 and March 16 LOL!
2. How many children and what are their ages? 2 - Conor 6 and Caden 3
3. Do you eat dinner at the same time every night? Within the hour of the same time.
4. Do your kids have a regular bedtime/bathtime routine? Yes, after supper, DS6 does homework while I clean up after supper. He takes his bath/brush teeth after homework, gets to play for a little while, and then goes upstairs for TV time with daddy at 8:00, tuck in at 8:25. DS3-everything is the same except homework, tuck in time at 9:00 - typically he makes no less than 13 trips up and down the stairs before he decides he no longer "misses you" - or needs to rehydrate - yet again.
5. Do you allow your kids to watch TV just so you can get things done
around the house? occasionally
6. Do you let the dishes pile up in the sink or do them immediately
after meals? I do dishes typically at supper time - put them in the dishwasher through out the day, clean up after supper and start the dw.
7. Are you good at keeping up with the laundry or do you have a
mountain of laundry to either wash, dry, put away or all of the above?
I HATE LAUNDRY about as much as I hate scrubbing bathrooms. Typically the mountains include to wash, and to put away.
8. Is everything where you want it to be, or is there a
room/closet/etc. in your house where things get shoved into? Everything is not where I want it to be necessarily - but I typically put things in the room where they belong and then when I clean that room - I put everything away.
9. Do you make your bed every day? usually.
10. Do you let each of your kids pick out cereal just so they won't
fight over who gets to pick it? Nope - I PICK IT.
11. Do you let your children pick out their own clothes? sometimes.
12. Do your kids have chores? yes
13. Do your kids get allowance? sometimes
14. Do you sometimes decide at 6pm to have sandwiches or leftovers
because you just can't muster up the energy to cook? Not typically - we do have leftovers - but I almost always cook. This past week I have decided at 7 PM that the cookie jar needed to be filled for the boys and made a double batch of homemade chocolate chip cookies. The night before last I knew there was no school so I made a double batch of homemade blueberry muffins for the next day as well. I definitely COOK! LOL.
15. Do you sometimes realize at 7 pm that you are still in your
pajamas and you have no idea where the day went? Since I work at home at 4 am occasionally I'll wear them until late in the day, but I am much more productive if I get fully dressed, and do my hair and make up.
16. Does your husband help around the house, or does he count as an
additional child? Eh, 6 of 1 and half dozen of the other . . . .
17. What do you do to unwind when your kids make you feel like
running away and joining the circus? Or do they ever make you feel
that way? Crack open a bottle of wine, take a Jacuzzi bath, goof on the Internet, scrapbook (but then they hang on me because they want to see what I am doing) LOL - screaming is always a good last option.
18. Would you say your house is Neat as a Pin, Picked-up for the
most part, or it looks like a bomb went off? Picked-up for the most part - I don't know that my house has EVER been neat as a pin - nor, can I say that it would EVER be that way. Please refer to questions #2 and #16. For the record, it's been close but the Red Cross has not been dispatched to our home for disaster relief YET- just remember there is ALWAYS A YET.
19. Is it just the two of you in bed at night, or do you have
children and pets sprawled out everywhere and you're hugging the edge? Um yeah - my husband dreams of how this will be one day - but right now we always have a 9 lb shi-pooh lying at the foot of the bed who growls at us when we do the horizontal hokey pokey (YOU ASKED!) lol.which only occurs when we don't have a toddler in between us sleeping soundly with no less than 32 stuffed animals of various shapes and sizes spilling over onto my side of the bed because my husband is comatose and has the nerve to wake ME UP when I snore.
20. Do you feel like you have a whole bunch of half-finished
projects lying around and no time to finish them? NO - that would be my husband - I fall more into the category of 'a few half-finished projects' - he prefers the whole bunch variety.
