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Oh the things you will find… when cleaning the house.

29 Saturday Oct 2011

Posted by Tara in Adventures in Mommydom, The State of the Domestic Union

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cleaning, decluttering, dog poop, hide and seek, humor, mess, mommydom

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Our weekend cleaning has begun. My husband is so much more motivated than I am. Lately, I get through the week and then want to lay around on Saturday and blissfully imagine an army of little elves cleaning up the house. It is a wonderful fantasy, but unfortunately it is real.

The only good thing about cleaning that it often helps show the strange ways my kids’ minds work. They continually perplex me.

Cleaning our house, feels like the inanimate objects in our house pass the time by playing hide and seek (although I think that they get help from the kidlings in our house).  What is this under the rug?  Dog poop?  Seriously, this morning my son thought it would be good to hide it rather than telling us he found it so we could clean it up!

As I went to the bathroom, I wondered about the small red thing in the bathroom sink that seemed to be staring at me… I was surprised upon further inspection that it was a raspberry and a fresh one too. I asked it what it was doing there, but it did not respond. I am going to guess that it was transported there by my children. Not sure why it found its place in the sink, but the rational me thinks they wanted to rinse it off before eating.

My only hope was that the raspberry found its way to the bathroom before the game of hide and seek with the dog poop began.

My Over-active Gag Reflex

09 Friday Sep 2011

Posted by Tara in The State of the Domestic Union, Things you did not need to know

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cleaning, dog poop, family, gag reflex, humor, Thank You

I used to have a pretty strong stomach.  I could handle most anything that came my way…

Stepped in dog poop?  No problem.

Kid’s diarrhea?  Nope, handled it with class.

Nasty stuff on the bottom of the refrigerator?  Not stopping me.

Moldy Tupperware buried under the seat until I thought something was dead in the car?  Would throw it away and not think about it.

Something happened during my 1st pregnancy with my daughter, and I have never been the same.  I developed an over-active/sensitive gag reflex.  Now, I just think of something gross and I may gag at the thought.  Every time I clean the toilets I start gagging uncontrollably (which sucks because with a 5-year-old boy I seem to clean them a lot).  I am sure it is pretty humorous to watch me try to clean now, especially when it is not something that is that big of a deal.  For instance, when I wash a sippy cup full of a new substance (that used to be milk) and I open it and proceed to gag immediately.  I am sure I am the picture of a domestic something, but not a goddess by any means.

I have the hardest time with dog poop though.  I just get a whiff of dog poop smell and I am a goner.  So, imagine my surprise when I came home from school and a horrible odor greeted me.  The dog had an accident in his kennel.

So once the kids started playing I set to clean the kennel, but started gagging as I tried to pull the soiled bedding out.  So, I decided to drag the whole kennel onto the back deck.  Who cares that it was raining steadily…I had to relieve the house of the smell.   I cleaned the area around it and found that the smell saturated the air in the spot it stood.  The problem with this new-found gag reflex is that not only can certain smells set it off, but also the thought of what was there.  So, I would clean a bit, then stand up gag, and then try again.  At one point, my eyes located the nearest bathroom.  I was not sure if I would make it, but thankfully I stopped before disaster struck.  I made it through, but I could not get myself to conquer the kennel before taking my daughter to Girl Scouts.  I decided I leave it outside for my husband to find. I figured if he found it and cleaned it, then I would just be super happy.  If not, then at least if I threw up on myself then I could get in the shower and not have puke and dog poop smell on me when I went with my daughter to her meeting.

Thankfully, my husband took on the challenge of cleaning then kennel (because he is kind of great like that)… but guess who started gagging when I went to move the bedding to the dryer.  Seriously, it is just sad.

At least…this guy knows my pain (and I know his because dog puke is almost as bad as dog poop).  You got to love his ingenuity. Hopefully, my husband will not get any great ideas about videoing me.

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