messes

These two pictures speak volumes about the last month of my life. My life has been a little bit overrun by the auction, and this has led to a little less supervision for my kids. Don't get me wrong even on my most vigilant days we can have plenty of messes, but the severity and frequency exponentially increased over the past 30 days.

I wish I had pictures of all the craziness, but I didn't even have time or maybe a good enough sense of humor in the moment to capture them all. Let me just give a random sampling of a few of these incidents.

The one pictured above is Savvy (almost three) helping Flint (19 months) brush his teeth-- the other half of the tube was all over the sink and bathroom floor!

A whole giant bag of honeycomb cereal gnawed through and dumped all over the family room couch and floor, an entire brand new giant box of gold fish dumped all over the kitchen floor with a victory dance performed on top of them, middle of the afternoon and time to pick up kids from school with the two youngest in the downstairs bathtub, naked . . . .Savvy had attempted to change Flint's poopy diaper and was then trying to give him a bath (she needs a lot more practice--poop was everywhere), an entire roll of toilet paper unrolled and strung throughout the downstairs, food crumbs and pieces strung throughout almost every room in the house (I have a strict no eating outside of the kitchen policy that these two think they are exempt from), piles of clean folded laundry shoved off of the bed and jumped into like a pile of leaves, and every blanket, pillow, and soft animal drug out and downstairs time and time again, along with tea parties set up in any room of the house at given moment of the day. Six kids are a lot of work. Six kids without a lot of supervision is chaos! This is by no means an extensive list. Just the ones that popped into my head while typing this.

The auction stuff is coming to an end. I only have a couple of people who have not claimed their item and only one or two of them that I don't have any contact information on. Hopefully if you have paid, you have been contacted or given contact information to get your item. If this is not the case. . . . please contact me again. I probably got interrupted in the middle of sending your email, and thought I sent it and never did. I can't thank everyone enough for their patience with me. I am so excited about the outcome of this auction that it is worth all the stress and mess that have plagued my house. I can't thank everyone enough for their donations. I will give a final donation amount when everything has been paid for. I know everyone is curious about the final number and so am I. It is always inspiring to see your part combine together to create something grander and better. It is amazing to see what all of us working together has done to help one of the best men I know.