A civilised house ...

[lillyanginger]

Guys, you have just made my day!!!! I laughed soooo much...remembering it only too well. Hang on in there, there is light at the end of the tunnel...or is that grapejuice at wine o'clock?

[Vickster]

In a civilised house, the phrase, "Mummy, I kicked poo" would not be heard...

[????]

You wouldn't spend half of Sunday family lunch dragging 'participants' out from under the table and back onto their chairs

[Fuschia]

In a civilised house there would be no pine cones in my bed

[sillywoman]

lillyanginger Wrote:

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> Hang on

> in there, there is light at the end of the

> tunnel...or is that grapejuice at wine o'clock?

Umm, just how long is this tunnel - my house seems to degenerate further into anarchy with every year that passes? I can manage a hot cup of tea most of the time now but have exchanged that for a constantly ringing telephone or doorbell that is never for me . And the furtive goings on are now things that I really don't want to investigate further. Will I ever regain a civilised house before my children leave home?

[snowboarder]

..is one where you don't get covered in spaghetti hoops vomit....(yup there's no doubt wheat last meal was)

[lillyanginger]

Sillywoman, don't frighten me!!! Am I currently just kidding myself? Boys are 9 and 13...

[Pickle]

This thread has made me laugh, but am I the only person who doesn't associate with any of this? Am I just lucky? My kids are 4.5 and 3, we manage to live a chaos free life. I guess there's plenty of time for it to go wrong, but for now I'm hoping I've escaped!

[Fuschia]

I think 18m-3 is the peak for chaos pickle, the toddler related sort, anyway

[sillywoman]

Ah lillyandginger - you may still be in 'goldentime'. There is a golden age of joy and gorgeousness between the ages of about 5 and 11. You're doing marvellously if your 13year old hasn't entered the grunt tunnel yet - most boys seem to enter it about age 13 or so. Hats off to you & long may it last!

[Link]

Ondine Wrote:

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> You can serve broccoli without making anyone cry

This is a good one!

[Smiler]

One can go to the toilet alone without making anyone cry.

[Fuschia]

You can run yourself a bath with your favourite bubbles without returning to find it already populated with naked children and their toys

[Helen GV]

I can have a proper lie in not a pretend one where I get jumped on elbowed bitten and my hair pulled and occasionally yelled at because I'm not keeping the kids quiet enough for the other half to lie in...

[Ruth_Baldock]

You don't have to have a cuboard of toddler friendly food bribes for vaccinations and medicine administering. Oh, look, it's time to hold Cheeky S down for his next dose of salbutamol *goes in search of, hilariously named, humzingers*

[Grotty]

...is one where you don't have to scoop floating stinky turds out of the bath and into the loo whilst retching...

[jennyh]

Grotty Wrote:

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> ...is one where you don't have to scoop floating

> stinky turds out of the bath and into the loo

> whilst retching...

Ha!!! So true. I had sister in law helping me with bath time at the weekend, she was horrified! Probably because she's pregnant and has it all to come!!

[Fuschia]

Is one where my new hairbrush (bought just this morning to replace one that mysteriously disappeared) would not have already found its way onto the shed roof...

[CamaraGutter]

A TRULY CIVILISED HOUSE

We learn to respect the Privacy of others AND

know yourself first before criticizing others.

If we meet people which are not from our Country we should not make false judgments not even

from our own country. I will tell you why....... :))

No we don't have to say anything now but we will learn as we go and let's not say that we are pretending we can afford this and that becouse the best bits come later with my own big brothers.

Lest keep our Civilised House very simple, nothing is difficult you just have to put into practice.

But what people use to say in the 50's. Is hard to straight an old oak tree. :-S

[CamaraGutter]

A TRULY CIVILISED HOUSE

We learn to respect the Privacy of others AND

know yourself first before criticizing others.

If we meet people which are not from our Country we should not make false judgments not even

from our own country. I will tell you why....... :))

No we don't have to say anything now but we will learn as we go and let's not say that we are pretending we can afford this and that becouse the best bits come later with my own big brothers.

Lest keep our Civilised House very simple, nothing is difficult; you just have to put into practice.

But what people use to say in the 50's. Is hard to straight an old oak tree. :-S

[HappyBee]

A TRULY CIVILISED HOUSE

We learn to respect the Privacy of others AND

know yourself first before criticizing others.

If we meet people which are not from our Country we should not make false judgments not even

from our own country. I will tell you why....... :))

No we don't have to say anything now but we will learn as we go and let's not say that we are pretending we can afford this and that becouse the best bits come later with my own big brothers.

Lest keep our Civilised House very simple, nothing is difficult you just have to put into practice.

But what people use to say in the 50's. Is hard to straight an old oak tree. :-S