Monday, June 25, 2012

When Mom is sick in bed...


JANUARY 12, 2009 12:06AM

When Mom is sick in bed...

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When Mom is sick in bed...
Do you believe this mess?  Coats and boots and shoes everywhere! 
Everyone goes outside to play in the snow, but no one remembers to hang up their coats or put away their boots.

Too much cereal!  Where's the vegetables?  Protein? 
They eat too much cereal and drink too much coffee and leave the bowls and cups in the sink.

Let's hope Shelby didn't eat any of these... 
No one cleans up after the Dying Poinsettia.  Caring for expiring plants is evidently Mom's job.

At least it's neatly piled 
The mail piles up without Mom to sort through it.

messy room 
They create chaos in their rooms...

He'd better clean this up 
...or innumerable Lego creations.

Shelby is forced to sleep all day 
Without Mom to play with her, Shelby sleeps in a comfy spot on the couch.

No one ever folds the socks. 
No one folds the socks...

Gone, gone, gone 
...but they do drink all the milk.

What's even worse than all the mess...
nothing sadder than a blank screen 
When Mom is sick in bed, nothing, nothing, NOTHING, gets written.

(I've missed you all and can't wait to catch up on your posts!)

Comments

Hope you're feeling better. (Socks never get folded in my house, even when Mom is well.)
This looks like my house "when Mom is depressed" !
Hmmmm...YOU'RE sick, but what's MY excuse?

You never cease to delight! Loved the blank computer screen punchline.

Feel better soon.
Ditch the house, come online and play here. I miss you. Be well. Get well.
Typical, isn't it Lisa? At least you know that you have a purpose. Ha Ha! Never thought I'd say it but...I kinda miss those messes the kids left...or at least the kids
Get well soon pal!
i hope you're getting better lisa
Well, now that I know you have an excuse for abandoning the keyboard...

Bless your heart, hang in there...
Hey! You were well enough to take all those photos! HA!
Isn't it funny (and I use that word loosely) how everyone will walk over the same schnitzle on the floor for a week if you let it happen? Everyone knows that only mothers can bend at the waist. I hope you're 100%!
I wish I could rate this twice without unrating it in the process! This is HILARIOUS Lisa. Simple and brilliant. I could not relate more!

Hope you're well, and glad you're back!

x nada
Hi Everyone - thanks for the well-wishes and commiseration on life with messy people. I'm feeling a bit better and hope to be able to be OUT of bed more than IN bed today. At least the Messy People are all at work and school.
Oh Lisa, you made me laugh out loud this Monday morning. How true! I made the mistake of leaving for a week once; do you know how long it takes to remove six days of permacrust from the inside of the microwave?? I hope that you are feeling better today, and that you are making progress in the battle to reclaim your house from the Messy People.
Finding the empty milk bottle IN the refrigerator is my favorite. Must be four steps from the fridge to the recycle container. And those bottles are soooo heavy.
How true! As you know, the same thing also happens when Mom goes out of the house for more than an hour of two.
oh no!!! it looks like my kids have been at your house while you were in bed sick!!!

I wondered where they went ???
Robin - Ugh! I'd forgotten all about the microwave...

Jimmy - Mine never leave it totally empty in the fridge. They're always careful to leave a TABLESPOON or two in there. Like, what can you possibly do with that?

Carmella - Yes, and it takes them absolutely no time to make a mess. Ten minutes or two hours - it doesn't matter.

1IM- So it was YOUR kids? Would you take them back? Now, please?

Marple - Thanks for stopping by. I wondered where you've been!
How strange! Your house looks like mine... and I have no kids. And I'm not sick! Well, I don't drink milk. Otherwise...
Feel Better Lisa!!!
Children are the original agents of entropy, with adult males not far behind. The (only) positive thing about messes is that they'll wait for you. Jump directly to writing; don't worry about the other stuff.
I hope you feel better. I'm going to assume this is the flu that knocked my entire family for a loop over Christmas.

The same thing happened here. My father wandered around leaving cups and glasses everywhere. If I hadn't been here, no laundry would have been done. My father would have tracked dirt with his muddy boots all over the house. The milk has disappeared several times this week. Etc. Etc. Very familiar.
I totally relate. Rated. One picture is worth a thousand blogs.
oh ... wow Lisa ... I'm sort of busy ... maybe Sunday night though ... yhea, that works for me!!!
Hi Lisa, glad to hear you're on the mend. Fun pictures. You can FOLD socks???
Welcome back. You are the Erma Bombeck of the OS world (that is a compliment by the way) (rated)
OHMYGAWD. Heads would roll! When angryhusband has a sniffle, he lays on the couch and watches TV. When angrymom's arm gets lopped off in a food processing accident, she uses a scrunchie as a tourniquet and continues doing the laundry.
Verrrrrry funny – caring for the dying poinsettia. I like R.Fallihee’s comment; it’s true. Welcome back! Get to work! Support your Philadelphia Eagles!
So how long does this flu last any way? I think I'm OK and then bam! Back in bed.

Roger and David - Thanks for the compliment, but I don't think Erma Bombeck was ever quite this cranky.

odette - Yep, I'm thinking it's the same one. How long 'til it goes away?

angrymom - you made me laugh but you're absolutely right!

1IM - Sunday? Are you kidding me? These kids are like GOATS. Leave them here much longer and there won't be a house left!

Ardee, High Lonesome, SeattleK8, and Faith - Thank you for stopping by. I'm trying to overlook the mess and get down to writing but the brain feels scrambled.

I'm trying to consider the bright side: at least I look (a little bit) better than that poinsettia!
Lisa, even your messy sink looks neater than mine. I don't have kids at home, so the last two photos before the screen look like my granddaughter's rooms. But the rest looks familiar. Keep getting better.
Lisa, hope you're feeling better. Love your photos and that is why I'm glad the kids are grown!
Lea and Pamela - Thank you! Some days the only thing that gets me through the day is remembering that The Messy People can't live here forever.
Not sure what the deal is. Looks perfectly normal to me :-)
Bob - Uh-oh. I think you may be one of The Messy People. Do you have Legos all over your floor, too?
I loved this post! These photos are perfect. You really captured all the details that a mom takes care of. The Lego shots made me nostalgic that my kids are past that stage. I can't tell you how many times I have had to dig through the vacuum bag to pull out Legos that I inadvertently sucked up from their hiding places. Hope you are feeling better.
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Lisa, I'm with you! BTW: "The messy people" is so much more tactful than "the slobs." You are the soul of diplomacy :)
Sorry you're sick, Lisa! But love the photo-Blog entry.

Get well soon.
M B, Diana, and Shiral - Thank you for stopping by! I think that I just might make it today. The Dying Poinsettia, though, took a turn for the worse and never pulled through. I'm glad that I'm doing better than that.
I know I am late getting the rounds in, but I hope that I am so late that you are now on the road to real recovery. Being sick is for the birds. Actually, I guess the birds don't like it either. I wonder what a sick bird thinks about? Dishes? Socks? Milk?

Wait! I am off track.

Get well quick.

Monte
I remember those days. Can't say I wish them back even though I do miss my grown up kids.

And my sink looks like that everyday.
Monte - Yes, I am doing better. Thank goodness! Hopefully I'll be writing something for real very soon. Thanks for checking on me.

Dolly - People tell me that I will one day miss the mess, but I don't believe them. I'll miss the children, not the mess! Thank you for stopping by.
"Bob - Uh-oh. I think you may be one of The Messy People. Do you have Legos all over your floor, too? "

It's my wife's fault. Really! It is!
I haven't read through the comments and am only just getting to this, but I wanted to say that the text and photos here are precisely right for a children's book. Seriously.
sorry, late to the, ahem, party...hope you are feeling better already & thank you for so thoroughly capturing what happens when mom stops paying attention for five minutes around here :-)

p.s., do legos do asexual reproduction?
Bob - oh sure - blame the mess on your wife!

Lainey - That is funny that you thought this could be a children's book. I write kid lit in my other writing life. :)

Lisa - oh God yes - Legos, much like dirty socks, reproduce while we're sleeping.

Thank you for stopping by. I thought this one was dead and buried long ago.
I am a little(lot ) late on this post. I stopped by to see your blog. I seen the photos and had to look. LOVED IT!
Isn't it amazing that nothing gets done when mom is sick. I remember those days. Funny thing is now when my girls sick they call me to come help them at home. I always tell them "WHO HELPED ME? when I was sick." I get a "Okay Mom"
fireeyes - The only thing that keeps me going some days is knowing that one day, these boys will have kids. Of course, I hope by that time the division of duties in the household is more equitable. :)

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