OK I am totally late today with my post… but I’m sick and my kids are crazy monkeys… so because I have nothing deep or life changing to write about I will revert to the old philosophy of “writing what you know.” Because who better than I knows about dirty houses.

So, here they are, in random order… 8 signs you may have waited too long to clean your house….drumroll please:

#1 Your clean laundry has been on your couch so long the kids don’t notice it anymore and just sit on top of it while having a snack and watching TV… (pictured above)

#2 The unidentifiable “gunk” stuck to your child’s wall won’t come off even with bleach and hot water and your only option is to paint over it… (sadly all of these come from personal experience)

#3 You say/think “what is that smell” more than 5 times in a 2 hour time frame.

#4 After you wash your windows your kids smack face first into the slider because they though the door was open.

#5 After sweeping your cobwebs your husband comes home and asks what’s different about the house.

#6 You step on an old pee diaper in the middle of the night when getting up to take care of the kids.(pee diaper people, I’m not an animal)

#7 You actually just throw some of your dirty dishes away because the dried on food has turned into a cement compound.

#8 You have to wash a load of laundry three times because you have forgotten to put it in the dryer for days and it has turned sour.

  

Ok, so I’m sure anyone who is friends with Earth Monkeys on Facebook is super sick of hearing me whine about my kids dumping buckets of nasty out of both ends for over a week now…but seriously it’s been HELL…H-E-L-L. I just wander around in a daze with a clorox bottle in one hand and poopy diapers in the other. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve been puked and projectile pooped on in the past 8 days. At one point I ran in the bathroom to help Sawyer and found him throwing up on the floor… inches from the toilet!!! Ahhh….I felt bad for him, but I have to admit I felt a little worse for me as I watched it flow under the washer and dryer. Well I should probably move on before you get grossed out and stop reading…I promise I have an actual point today.

What goes better with the stomach flu than laundry… I’m pretty sure I have washed every blanket we own thee times already this week… Praise the Lord my hunka hunka burnin man love has helped me fold most of it already because I would seriously need to be institutionalized at this point if he hadn’t… Yep I said most of it has already been folded and put away…. you wouldn’t know by the gargantuous pile in the picture… but that’s all that’s left…I just didn’t have time to get to it yesterday because I was busy digging through every trash bag in our garbage can looking for my car keys that Crew threw away… don’t worry I found them in the very, very, stinky bottom.

Anyhew, since I never seem to leave you with any great “how to’s” or morsels of actual useful information, I thought I would change things up today and share a recipe for homemade laundry detergent I stole off of another blog… I think pioneer woman… my cousin actually stole it so I’m not sure. Anyway, it cost like a few pennies per load and I have been using it for over a year…so don’t say I never gave you anything:)…