I generally avoid the gameroom in my house. I can successfully go upstairs, check my emails, put away clothes, clean the bathrooms and tuck the kids into bed without having to see it. It's all the way on the other side of the upstairs from the rest of the rooms. I KNOW it will be a disaster and it will put me in a grumpy mood so I just avoid it. Yesterday, I made the mistake of going in there and I flat out lost my mind!!! I'm talking about tossing toys around, hollering, stomping around and threatening to not let them even go in the gameroom, much less play in there!
Before you go getting all "perfect parenting" on me, let me tell you what made me lose my mind! Among all the food and dishes on the floor and the toys scattered around the room, I found that my 10 year old son, Nick, had used the tool kit he got for his birthday to completely disassemble his sister's play kitchen. There were screws spread all over the floor and parts and pieces from wall to wall. When I asked him why he decided to take the kitchen apart, he responded "I was bored." Let's just say that there will be NO MORE opportunities for boredom this summer! We have school packets to work on, chores to do, books to read, weeds to pull, etc... After I calmed down a bit, we began putting the kitchen back together. With no instructions, I had to rely on my son to remember where the pieces came from. We did a fairly decent job, but have LOTS of hardware left over! I hope that stinkin' kitchen doesn't fall apart the next time Brenna plays with it!
I'm so over Summer vacation...25 days and counting...
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