I am soooo embarassed!

[ABall]

We have a couch that has recliners on both sides, (what we got at tax return time). It hasn't been closing lately, and I decided it was because Donald jumps on the couch and he had to have done something to it.:x


Tech came today to check it out.........pulled it from the wall and flipped it over and there was a STEAK KNIFE stuck in it:eek: thats why it didn't close well. But thasts not the worse of it.

About 5 pounds of crubs and toys and wrappers were BEHIND the couch:oops: the guy asked me if I wanted to get the stuff before he pushed it back.....:roll: SO EMBARRASSED!

And I thought I actually had the front rooms looking decent because Sarah came over to show me her baby.
(sorry Sarah, I bet your house sparkles compared to mine).

[KrisRV]

oh Amy, I am sure your house is just fine... The man more then likely had children or been around children to know what they do... Don't feel bad, kids are wonderful and worth all the mess they make... I am sure Sarah didn't even look at the house she was just more then happy to see you...

[momothem]

That's the way it ALWAYS goes Amy--lol
i had a couple over when my dd's were tots. I moved the booster seat off the chair --only to be appalled by the collection of ????? food goop and crumbs and who knows what else. I was sooo very gross. I could have died!! Everything else to that point had been perfect-oh well. You are not alone!

[JenniBear]

how funny!

[Jackie]

You sure you weren't in MY house by mistake? That sounds just like around here!!!

[Earthy]

That's so funny! :)

[KrisRV]

thats what I was going to say too Jackie.. my house is the same way....

[crazymama]

Oh Amy... that is funny... embarrasing but funny! I totally die everytime someone "just pops in"! With the 2 little ones my living room is almost always trashed to the point you can't walk through it! Then on top of everything (fire place, entertainment center, computer amoire etc) is loaded with tons of JUNK because I rescued it from the toddlers or I just don't know what to do with it.. so I can totally relate!

[TeacherMom]

OH boy! YIKES even re the steak knife, but typical for the crumbs! We have to vaccume under ours on a weekly basis , we have the same couch I think, recliners on each side? But how do you put it up against a wall>

[mommix3]

Having kids brings lots of surprises with it!! LOL!! I know how you feel. We recently replaced the washer and dryer. I even pulled the old ones out before the delivery people got here. Well, Low and behold a HUGE trail of junk was under them STILL. I guess it was stuck under it and when they lifed them onto the dolleys to take them out it all peeked out at us. I couldn't lift them up like they did or I would've found it all.I was mortified.

Angela

[sixcloar]

It could've happened here, too, Amy!

One of my good friends came home form church one night to find the back door ajar. The called the police to come investigate. She said she was so embarrassed because the house was a wreck. When they found nothing missing, the police officer said "So, is this what your house looked like when you left?"

[Jackie]

LOL!!! And you know the officer didn't mean it at all the way we all think! He's probably seen a lot worse!

[KrisRV]

LOL Pam sounds like the time, when I was dating my dh and took him to my sister house, she let her daughter get all her barbies out all over the floor and they left, when we came in her yelled called the police someone broke in my poor little niece thought someone stole her barbies LOL

[4kidsmom]

Been there, done that. Have a lot of t-shirts. Want one? lol

[sloan127]

One year at inspection time for our foster parents license, I had worked like crazy to get everything in order. On the day the health inspector came I had it just right. I had the kids playing in the den and I was talking to the health inspector at the dining room table. When he was done filling in all the papers, we started walking through the house. As we were going through the kitchen cabinets and drawers I glanced into the den to check on the kids and one of the foster kids, who was almost 3, had some how gone into the kitchen and taken a whole sleeve of crackers, poured them on the furniture and floor and then crushed them everywhere. I could have pinched his little cute head off!! Anyway I just kept talking and answering questions and somehow managed not to let the inspector see in that room. Freddy came home that evening and laughed like an idiot when I told him what had happened. Beth

[Ava Rose]

I am always afraid to look under my cushions or the couch. Scary. lol. It is amazing what one finds under some cushions or under the couch itself.

[DanielsMom]

I just wish I had a couch! ;)

[momandteacherx3]

That definitely counts on the embarassment meter! I'm sure he didn't think twice about the crumbs and toys, the steak knife was probably different!!

I had some friends over one afternoon and we were sitting in the dining room talking when I mentioned that my little 3 yr old had managed to pull the bottom drawer all the way off the track from under the oven. (Talk about finding crumbs and toys etc under there!) One of the gals looked at me with a totally puzzled look and said "Those drawers come all the way out??" Her sister-in-law teased her SOOO bad about her housecleaning skills- lol!

MT3

[momandteacherx3]

Oh, and has anyone with toddlers checked their floor vents lately? My middle DS thought it was the "mouth" of our house (it must have looked like teeth or something), and for the longest time he would slide crackers into the vent or other things that would fit. The crackers weren't so bad, but fruit snacks MOLD eventually... glad I was able to break that habit of his!!

MT3

[Jennifer R]

When my older ones were younger, we lived in an apt complex. We bought a washing machine and had trouble with the drain so we called maintenance. Well, it turns out my kids were putting food they didn't want in that drain! I still haven't figured out why it didn't smell!

[dawninns]

Anything short of dead birds the cat brought in the previous week doesn't faze me anymore. :)

[kbabe1968]

Okay...THIS I can TOP!!! LOL ....

3 weeks ago, after many moons of NOT cleaning my house, we had my daughters fundraiser yard sale for her gymnastics camp.

I had spent the week pulling things out for the sale, and not really cleaning. Our ENTIRE house was a pig sty...there was not one inch that didn't have something that didn't belong, or trash, or something.

3/4 of the way thru the sale a women stops by...she buys some things and we're talking, she was the daughter of the previous owners (who had lived in this house until she was 21). We took her in to show her some of the things we had done - we've almost completely redone the house w/ the exception of the kitchen. I was SOOOOO EMBARRASSED.

Needless to say, my house is now clean and I'm making EVERY attempt to keep it clean! AHHHH!

Thankfully, we don't have furniture pushed against any walls so we don't have that chance - although, I know it WOULD happen, given the chance! LOL :D

You'll survive...be encouraged that you'll probably never see this man again! :D

[becky]

Crumbs and toys? No money? Lol.

[sloan127]

Okay here is one I never share. One time early in our foster parenting career, a boyfriend of our 17 year old foster daughter came in and pulled a knife on me, the girl, my twins who were 4 and my cousin's little girl who was 3. The boy was a clean cut boy from a super nice family but he had started taking drugs and was high that morning. So he is waving a knife around and yelling and cussing. He is telling me all about how God is doing all this and that the knife is the sword of Jesus and his hand is the hand of God. He is asking me if I hear all this music he is hearing in his head and he is telling me that he has come to take our foster daughter and my twins to the little house on the hill. At some point he said something and said if you don't believe it ask you preacher. I said well he just lives out the street let me call him. The boy said okay and I called the preacher's house and he answered. I said Ray this is Beth I need you. He said I will be right there and hung up. In less than three minutes he was at the door and when he came in the boy stuck the knife under his chin and started the sword of Jesus stuff. Ray said well it looks like a Case double x folding hunting knife to me. That must have shocked the boy because he laid the knife down behind him on the table and kept fussing at Ray. I managed to get our foster daughter to pick it up the knife and hide it. In the mean time his sister and brother in law have pulled up and are going to take him to be committed into a mental hospital. NOW! (this is the part I never share!) Right in the middle of all this drama... here comes our little dog dragging a pair of my panties right through the middle of everyone and the stupid dog drops them and leaves them and turns around and walks off. I swear this really happened! Beth

[KrisRV]

LOL Beth, Dogs and children they say and do the darns things when you don't except them too. that is so funny. I am trying not to laugh so hard..

[4kidsmom]

NOW! (this is the part I never share!) Right in the middle of all this drama... here comes our little dog dragging a pair of my panties right through the middle of everyone and the stupid dog drops them and leaves them and turns around and walks off. I swear this really happened! Beth


ROFL!!!!!:lol: :lol:

[Emma's#1fan]

It could've happened here, too, Amy!

One of my good friends came home form church one night to find the back door ajar. The called the police to come investigate. She said she was so embarrassed because the house was a wreck. When they found nothing missing, the police officer said "So, is this what your house looked like when you left?"

LOL, LOL, LOL!!!!
That is a great play on words!
Patty

[bunnytracks]

(sorry Sarah, I bet your house sparkles compared to mine).

Umm, no! LOL If that guy came to fix my couch no telling what he would find. Last time we turned it over there was so much junk back there (and a nasty rotten peach) :oops:

[ABall]

thanks for making me feel better.

[Jennifer R]

Amy, even before I got to your last post I was thinking that all of these stories should make you feel better! At least you know you are not alone!

[homeschooler06]

It amazes me what will come out from under the couches or in them when I rearrange. I usually move my living around every other month.
We had the same stuck problem recently, it was a toy stuck in the folding part of the recliner. I am making stoppers from fabric filled with rice (I have 40 lbs of rice) and will put them under the couch to keep from having crap get pushed under it. I have two already done. The two I have seem to have helped keep toys and stuff out from under that section of couch ( I have a sectional)