My Very Own Mini Me
We usually keep my daughter’s bedroom door closed and secured with one of those babyproofing thingamajigs that you have to pinch to turn the door knob because my son, cute as he may be, is a wrecking machine. And a very FAST one at that. He can destroy a clean room in about five minutes on a good day.
Unfortunately, my daughter frequently forgets to close her door and the other day my son got in there and made a pretty big mess. I was totally not in the mood to pick it all up (because I pick up their crap ALL DAY LONG) and left it, intending to deal with it the following day.
Well, that was about 4 days ago and now the room looks like it was in an earthquake. You can hardly walk around in there and it’s just painful to look at, let alone think about cleaning.
So last night I said to my daughter, who seems relatively unmoved by the disaster her room has become, “Do you like your room like this?”
And she replies, with no snark whatsoever, “Yes, I love tripping over all this stuff”
“Excellent use of sarcasm!!!” I exclaim, beaming. I’m so proud of her! *dabs at misty eyes*
So glad I’m not the only one to leave a messy kid’s room for days! It drives me crazy. Much easier to keep the door closed and pretend it’s not there!
I agree with Annie—I like the ‘closed door’ approach. Makes me feel like things are in control.
Oh, God. The kids’ rooms are OUT OF CONTROL. At least when they’re in school they have less time to mess them up. I am appalled by the state of our house and too pissed off to do anything about it.
But I love love love her comeback. Excellent!
I’m so happy to know that my kids aren’t the only cheeky bastards out there! LOL.
And I live by the closed door approach, just so you know.
Oh that was fabulous sarcasm!
You are correct. That is an EXCELLENT use of sarcasm!
Sadly, it gets LESS cute the older they get….and when they start to apply it TO YOU….
And HEY, I just looked over and I was looking at me From you Flickr.
Freaky.
I love the sarcasm. Way to go!
My sister’s room was always like that. Floor covered a foot thick. My desk might be like that, but I still don’t know how she could take a whole room of wreckage.
I give the sarcasm an 8 out of 10. She could of added a huge sigh, a “Geez mom” or “Gosh!” at the end for the full 10.
;)
In case my recent blog post wasn’t a clue, I have cleaning fatigue. I swear my family can mess three times faster than I can tidy and clean, and then I notice: I’m the only one. BACK TO SCHOOL NOW!!!!
Oh right about you not me, you LOL.
It was an excellent use of sarcasm…and as the person who neglected to secure the perimeter, I say it’s your daughter’s job to clean.
I am excellent at explaining why it’s not my job to clean up THAT. ;)
It’s called both a natural (messed up) and logical (clean up) consequence.
Julie
http://theartfulflower.blogspot.com
All I do is clean-up, clean-up, clean-up. However, I am a mean mom and without hesitation I will make a four-year haul the heavy vacuum out and use it. Love to instill the obsessive-compulsive habits into the young!
Bitsy
http://www.valuewit.com
Love her. My guy used sarcasm well for the first time when we were on vacation. So proud :)
** snort
Too funny. I can only assume you are pretty much in for it when she reaches the teen years!!
Brilliant sarcasm! LOL!
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The same thing happens with our house. My little boy can make this mess in All rooms during several minutes. And sometimes I just look at that without doing anything. I understand that I can do nothing with that – it’s impossible!