March 11, 2005
I thought I had seen
I thought I had seen everything. Really.
Although Emily is nearly 12 (13 days to go, I was reminded this morning!), I thought there wasn't much she could surprise me with anymore. Anyone who believes that the angelic child pictured here previously could not possibly keep her room a pigsty, read on.
I am still cleaning her bedroom. I spent 2 hours in there yesterday, and cleaned up the floor and the wardrobe and drawers. No wonder she has no clean underwear. They're all shoved into any old drawer that has room, never in her underwear drawer.
Fine, I dealt with that. I may be a neat freak, but I can understand that not everyone else is, no matter how frustrated I get in the morning when we are running late because Em can't find anything.
So I did the wardrobe and the floor yesterday, and headed back in this morning to do under the bed and the toybox.
Under the bed was not so bad. Odd dirty clothes under there, a gazillion odd dirty socks and the like. One biscuit, which infuriates me, however, I just tossed it out, and finished with Under The Bed.
Then I opened the toybox. The first thing that hit me was the smell. I checked that Twinkie was reclining in the hallway watching me, because I thought she may have crawled into the toybox and died, the smell was that bad.
I think that this may have once been a sandwich. I think it was from the end of year school picnic. In mid December. I can only reason that out due to the other crap that was also in the bag.
I'm afraid to delve deeper, but I must. In rubber gloves, I think ;)
Comments
Oh, my sympathies, love. I'm holding my nose just looking at the picture!
Posted by: Nathania at March 11, 2005 12:27 PMIt must be the age, Janelle is 12 and I am having the same thing with her at the moment , her bedroom is a disgrace. However I am yet to find food, but have I really looked under her bed? Scary what you can find, anyway she has until tonight to get it sorted or else she is grounded for the whole weekend, lets see if it works, probably not. You gotta love them.
Posted by: Sharon at March 11, 2005 12:40 PMOh. my. goodness. !
Posted by: Norma at March 11, 2005 01:16 PMEwww....that is soooo gross! I hope you made sure Em saw how nasty that was....maybe she'll be more diligent about throwing food away. Clothes don't mold in the same way! :-) My mom used to clean my sister's room too. Then she would complain to me about it. At which point, I remind her that she never cleaned MY room. And if she couldn't stand the mess, she can either just close the door and never go in there or lock my sister in her room until it's clean!
Posted by: Evelyn at March 11, 2005 02:36 PMROFL!!!! Oh my, I have seen that sandwich many times in my life..LOL! As the mother of five children, I have dug that sandwich out of the bottom of backpacks, closets and even once in a sock drawer, along with assorted black oranges, squishy apples, etc. Somehow though, I never find the cookies or treats.
Thank goodness they seem to outgrow doing that by the time they get into highschool..LOL
Posted by: Kim at March 11, 2005 11:28 PMEeuw!! Yes, it's definitely the age; my son is 13 and his room is awful too. I make him clean out the used dishes (which mysteriously appear there, because he is not allowed to eat in his bedroom) every few days, and hope the health department doesn't come to inspect...
Posted by: Judy at March 11, 2005 11:32 PMA messy room is a sign of a creative mind. At least that's what I told my father.....
I've reformed since then, and now I'm a (little) bit of a neat freak myself.
Posted by: Colleen at March 12, 2005 12:49 AMI would loan you my Biohazard suit, but I still have a 12 year old here. Hee! Boy, do I know what you mean. While going through my son's room when he was that age, we found "biology specimens" growing inside of empty Sphaghetti sauce jars. (I'm still boggled at the fact he ate sphaghetti sauce straight from the jar.) So many soft drink cans we lost count.
Posted by: Bliss at March 12, 2005 01:34 AMi have to do that regularly to my son's room. he's only 10. i have no hopes that he'll outgrow it. i have an 18yr old daughter that has the same room as you described. kim, if they have messy habits, i have no hope they'll outgrow them. i have one child (middle girl) that takes after my clean genes. she's brilliant!
once i found a dehydrated *chicken wing* in my son's drawer because it looked like a chicken. what the?!
Posted by: lynette at March 12, 2005 01:46 AM
Hi there, I think wev'e all been there, kids are amazing, I remember hating fruit buns as a kid and stashing them for weeks under my matress. Mum could have saved herself heaps on lunches! Makes us laugh now, stories for the grandkids (namely, my kids)... Nik.
Posted by: Nik at March 11, 2005 11:50 AM