The Shiny Penny Syndrome

This is how it went when my kids were small.

 

I'd get to working in one room, spot a little project like organizing pictures, pull all of that out,

and realize I needed tape,

 

So I'd head into the office to get that - and notice it needed dusting, and would dust and vacuum and pull stuff away from the walls to clean along the baseboards,

 

and right about then need to go to the bathroom.

 

The bathroom would need a little straightening and I would start reorganizing the shelves,

 

and then see it's time to pick up the kids ... dash off to get them ...

 

and come back into a house that looked like we'd been robbed.

 

The rest of the afternoon involved retracing my steps and cleaning up the disaster.