Twitter

Fighting the powerful forces of Destructo-baby

Where ever there is a box to empty, where ever there is paper to rip and eat, where ever there is a tissue to tear into the tiniest of pieces and spread around the house, there she will be. My arch-nemesis in the fight to maintain a tidy (ish) house - Destructo-Baby!
As fast as a speeding bullet, as sneaky as a hundred ninjas, a master of mess.....

I think even if we lived in a cave on the remotest mountain with only the clothes on our back she would find a way to cause mess and destruction.

It's just the way she is and I love her and wouldn't change it for anything. Some battles aren't meant to be won.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

So it begins.....

Image
So the declutter process begins. The first evening I was super revved up about decluttering and even managed to rope in my husband. (By rope in I mean he was sat in the same room working on his laptop and I interrupted him from time to time by holding up a book and shouting "Keep or give away?") And I ended up with a good ole pile of books released from their prison of the bookshelf. Then I got tired and the books stayed on the floor for a few days. Which brought me to my first learning lesson; it's all well and good decluttering but that isn't the end of the process, you have to then do something with what you have decluttered! I don't really like binning books, they're precious texts of information to me. Though some did have to go to the recycling box as they were in no shape to give away. I put some on Facebook and some went to friends, some went to the charity shop and the rest? Well they're still in a box under the stairs but at least they&#
Read more

Can we create eco children?

Image
My 5yo loves to watch YouTube. (Very heavily monitored, only as a treat but still...) What she most loves to watch is people unwrapping things and people playing with toys and demonstrating them. Judging by the amount of views and by talking to other parents this seems to be all the rage for 5 year olds. At the moment she likes to watch LOL dolls. This has of course led to 'mummy can I have an LOL doll?'. If you have not had the misfortune to know what this is, let me describe some of the video to you. First it is covered in packaging layered round it and so you must remove some disposable plastic wrapping, then a bit more disposable plastic wrapping, then a bit more. This then leaves you with a round plastic ball. It has different sections which you can open. You open the first section and inside is some plastic packaging, which you open and there are some small plastic glasses. Then you open another section, more plastic packaging, inside some shoes. You continue to do t
Read more

Disempowerment

Image
Lately I've become quite disempowered. I used to have a zest for fighting against injustice and trying to make the world a better place. But with everything that 2020 has brought, the chaos, the injustices, the suffering, I have just felt disempowered. It just seems that greedy, inept people fall upwards whilst everyone else suffers.  Add into that the fact that under lockdown my responsibilities have gone up exponentially. I am trying to work, homeschool my kids, maintain my health, look out for my community, keep up with other people's expectations of me that I have no time for thinking, no time for me.  (After this experience I will never complain about being short on time ever again!) Issues which I read about I know that I should feel compassion for, and normally I would, but right now, under lockdown, I look inside and I have nothing left to give.  I have had to turn down extra hours at work which I have waited over a year for because I am struggling to do th
Read more