Keeping It Real

This is what happens when you leave your child in the care of his grandparents…

They get the dog and the baby confused. My dad emailed me this picture…nice!

Actually, this is Colton’s favorite place to be when he is at my parents house.  He loves crawling in the dog cage, locking himself in and playing with the dog toys.  I know…NaSTY!

Keepin It Real

Here we go. This will be my first post for my new series called KIR (Keepin it Real).

OK...deep breath...I am about to show you something that I would normally hide from the world. In my mind and dreams, Adams room would look something like this.

But the reality is that this is Adam's room 2 days after Christmas! AHHHHH!

The whole family ended up having to go in and do an intervention. It took us ALL day to clear out the messes in this room. Not pictured is the inside of his closet where the main issues were hiding. We love watching the show Hoarders and we kept joking with Adam that he is a "Hoarder in training". He literally has an emotional attachment to everything and does not want to get rid of one single keychain, rock, broken pencil or happy meal toy. I kept picking up things and jokingly saying to him "Adam, how would it make you feel if we threw this away" (the line the therapist use on the show). Every time he would reply with a big long explanations of what the item meant to him and when he got it and who gave it to him...JUST LIKE the crazy people on the show.

I think we have joked with him a little too much because he is now very paranoid that he is a hoarder. He keeps saying to me "Do you think I am a hoarder...I dont want to be a hoarder mom...I think I am just a normal 8 year old boy...all boys have stuff like this mom". :) Too funny.

So there you go. If you choose to join in on KIR, let me know so I can come see your deep dark secrets and maybe feel a little better about mine.