Wednesday, August 31, 2011

eye of the beholden...

You can buy a nice house. Or a not-so-nice house that you work hard to fix up. Either way, the fact of the matter is, if you have 8 kids it won't be nice for long...
For example:


they will scratch names and pictures into your leather couches








they will pull the wallpaper off the wall








they will junk up everywhere, especially your garage










they will break your tools






they will bust open the pillows you bought to top off the beds they never make







they will pop the covered buttons off your custom ottoman








they will dirty your coveted bar stool seats







they will write on your kitchen table






they will scratch your dining room table, the very week you get it home







They will do many, many things to drive you mad. But you will love them despite the destruction and you will realize that a nice house is something you don't really need right now anyway...

2 comments:

Gwen said...

Oh, I love this post! :)

Chrissy said...

I could have taken each one of these photos in our house! Especially the garage! If anyone ever solves the what-to-do-with-7-kids-worth-of-riding-toys dilemma... I will kiss them! :)