My house: the wreck of the hesperus

Have you ever heard that saying? It was my grandpa, I think, that used to say that… when the house was a mess. “Looks like the wreck of the Hesperus in here!” Probably said quite often about my bedroom when I was little 🙂 “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” by the way, is a Longfellow poem.

Steve was out of town again the first half of this week–another business trip. I had grand plans to get things done around the house (trading out my winter clothes for summer clothes, cleaning up Rebecca’s bedroom, etc.) Did ANY of that get done? No. I’m lucky I did one load of laundry and emptied the dishwasher… ya know, right before Steve got home so it appeared that I did something.

Want to know HOW the house of a stay-at-home-mom gets like this?? Read an AWESOME “day in the life” play-by-play like this one, haha.

In a moment of stress and exhaustion, I decided to laugh at the mess around me and I took pictures. Just for you. I hope you laugh, too. Or judge me, that’s fine too.

Remnants of lunch time. Yes, I let Ryan eat in the family room. While watching Thomas on TV. And yes, that’s a cheeseburger from McDonald’s–that I actually bought the day before and he didn’t eat so I saved it and tried again. Those Cheetos were my lunch.

Piles of {clean} laundry. They were on the couch when Steve left… they were on the couch when Steve got home. And you see how they’re kind of sorted? Steve did that, not me.

Okay, so this picture doesn’t look that messy. But when taken in with the rest of this room, the toys scattered around were bugging me.

Kitchen table–clearly not used for family dinners. Piled with crap and more crap. Products I have to review on the blog, Ryan’s toys, food, books, mail…. and then there’s the kitchen counters…

Okay, now looking at these photos they don’t seem so bad. But those dishes in the picture above had been sitting there for days. And what you can’t see is that the sinks are almost full. The white paper towel dispenser under the cabinet on the right? Ryan soon had that thing emptied and sheets of paper towels were strewn about all over the place.

Ohhh, Rebecca’s beautiful room. She doesn’t sleep in her crib, we NEVER use her bedroom. That’s because she sleeps in our bed and we use our co-sleeper as a changing table. So her room has become… a mess. Her laundry gets done and instead of being put away, it gets piled up all over the place, like her crib…

…and her changing table. Oh my. That’s all clean clothes. Some of it probably doesn’t even fit her anymore. And wait, there’s more…

The other half of her room. MORE clothes piled in her cradle and on top of her bookcase cubes. And you can see her closet, still full of clothes. I wonder if maybe this girly girl has too much clothes?! lol. I am SERIOUSLY planning on cleaning her room this weekend. Really. Promise. Maybe.

Our extra bedroom. This bed was made at some point–and even used! My birth team used it to rest during my labor. I think the sheets were then taken off to be washed (whoo!), but then…. never put back on, haha. And now it’s storage for crap! We’re still unpacking, okay?!

This is the master bedroom. That would be our bed. So embarrassing. That plastic on it? Was from the birth… we put it under our sheets to protect the new mattress. Since I didn’t birth there and nothing got dirty, we left the plastic on because any breastfeeding mom knows how much leaking there is in the middle of the night at the beginning… Then, Rebecca pooped on the bed last week so our sheets got taken off to be washed. Andddd didn’t get put back on. Yet. (Yes, I do mean there is STILL no sheet on our bed lolol. Sleeping on plastic isn’t that bad.) I know you’re judging me.

So I took all these pictures while my children were sleeping–yea, both at the same time! Why wasn’t I CLEANING? What in the world was I doing instead?!

I was relaxing. I was catching up on my TV shows… mmmm, David Boreanaz.

I DID clean some before Steve got home lol… the kitchen is clean, the kitchen table is clear, the laundry is gone from the couch (although just moved to respective bedrooms and not put away…), Ryan’s room is clean…. and that’s about it. I didn’t even show you a picture of MY closet, yikes.

How’s your house look? Care to share pictures? 😉