supervising from the couch: The Not-Quite-Daily Photo

Friday, March 13, 2009

The Not-Quite-Daily Photo

I'm just embracing my inconsistency. I do feel like I accomplished something today though, and if I had thought of taking a "before" picture it would be obvious that it was something big. Of course I couldn't have shown my face in public again if anyone had seen the state of the storage room before I cleaned it out.

Since it was an all day job, I didn't fix dinner. We had a nutritionally empty but delicious meal here:

5 comments:

The Simmons Story said...: just be grateful you have a storage room that you have to clean out. some of us have to disguise our 'stuff' in the rooms we live in.; March 14, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Swimmingmom said...: Oh, I miss Hires! Yummy! Hey, you saw that room of mine on my blog. Yes, I'm embarassed to show my face, but oh well. Looks like the final results for you look nice, neat, and organized.; March 15, 2009 at 8:45 AM
Rachel said...: You have to admit that burgers have plenty of protein, right? The storage room looks great! I'm addicted to large plastic bins.; March 16, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Julie said...: Holy Cow Michelle - when my storage room is at it's MOST organized (according to Julie) it probably looked like your "before" picture . . . nothing in my house looks this orderly ;-).; March 17, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Rachelle said...: Beautiful!!; March 21, 2009 at 10:41 PM

here's the story:

I was interviewed for a newpaper article about kids and sleep, and quoted as saying something like "when I'm tired, I feel like supervising from the couch." Ever since, it's been our catch phrase for slacker parenting. Ironically, I only had one child at the time and we were practically attached at the hip. Now that I have four older kids, they spend chunks of time playing without even the benefit of me watching from the couch. However, I do try to come running if it sounds like there might be blood. Somehow they have all thrived in spite of me.