Frogs in the Bathroom, Makeup Brushes in the Toybox
Babies truly take over your life. They also take over your house. Even before they are scattering their toys all over the place, these 20-inch long individuals require so much stuff that us parents have to clear out closets and prepare the basement for the boxes of grown-out-off toys and clothes.
Then they get bigger, and start moving, and moving stuff around. This morning I opened the bathroom cupboard to a plastic frog convention, there’s a dump truck that’s taking Brio and a quantity of playdoh under my bed, and if I had a dollar for all the times I’ve accidentally stood on some toy I could buy a real dump truck.
My stuff gets scattered too, or re-purposed as toddler toys. There’s a spaghetti spoon, yogurt pot lids, several dollars in change and some old makeup brushes in the toy box. The brushes weren’t that old, but they are now… and when do moms get to put makeup on anyway!
It doesn’t help that our apartment is tiny. My sanity is preserved in my house by setting aside my space, with my things in it, that Toddler can’t get at. The top three shelves of a tall bookcase are MINE and no-one touches them.
Take the spoons into the bedroom, put the bike’s rear light under the TV and plastic firemen in the larder, and I don’t care. I have three square feet of order and serenity and even though it seems negligible against the tide of runaway megabloks, it keeps me sane in the chaos.
What do you do to separate baby space from adult space? How much personal space do you have in your house?
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