Welcome to the Jungle

     It's pure chaos over here lately.  Harmony is on the move, Camden loves a good mess and Mike's on afternoons.  Have you seen the white flag flying from our house (not to be confused with the pirate flags in the back yard although they more accurately describe our household).  I surrender! I am no longer going to fight these battles.  They are never ending, so why bother.

• Cheerios! Anywhere and everywhere.  They are scattered on the floors, exersaucer, high chair, my bed (they migrated) and even the laundry (dirty not clean).

• Play dough! We play with play dough at least 5 times a day, if not more.  Its Camden's favourite. Its been stuck to the floor, walls, clothes and as of yesterday the inside of the baby's mouth.  I now know why my mom would never let me play with it indoors and here I just thought she was being mean.

• Fridge Magnets! Currently a whopping 63 have been plastered on my poor fridge door. We have a myriad of farm animals with a talking barn (thank you leapfrog), pet shop animals, a mixed matched alphabet and countless others. 

• LEGO! You haven't felt pain until you step on a piece, in the middle of the night, while you quietly sneak out of the baby's room using your Mommy Ninja skills, only to wake the baby while you try to silently curse.  There is also, nothing like dropping the triple decker Harry Potter bus down the ceramic tile stairs seconds after you just finished building it, which took an hour (seriously a magic Harry Potter bus shouldn't fly apart in a thousand pieces its magic, GAH). Lego hides cleverly under every piece of furniture just to make the 5 times a day I vacuum even more of a chore.

     I vacuum at least 5 times a day.  I don't even bother putting the vacuum away because there really isn't much point. The floors get washed several times a week and they are still never clean.  I have given up.  I apologize if you drop in for a visit and see the mess but I am done.  Well, I am done until the mess overwhelms me which should be sometime this afternoon.  I can't stand a mess. So as much as I would love to actually surrender to the chaos and to reside in this jungle, I just can't.  I must go suck up cheerios, pick play dough out of Lego and return magnets to the metal magnet bucket. *sigh*

     What have you surrendered to lately?