well, once again there is not too much to report here. toya had no school today because of snow. jordan still had preschool but because it is small, she did not really count it as school, but kids could come if their parents wanted to drive. i was one of those parents. the pre-school is only two minutes down the road and it saved my sanity. of course jordan loves it and would have given me a hard time if i told him it was cancelled. so, he went to pre-school till noon, and made my day a little easier. don't get me wrong, i love having all my kids home, i just don't like all the bickering that goes on between the older two when they have seen too much of each other. anyway, he got home and then the twins went to bed, so it wasn't too bad.
i forgot i said that there wasn't much to report, but there is one thing. kelsey has taken to biting her sister. i always counted myself lucky that i never had a biter and now look. she doesn't do it often, maybe twice a week, but it is more than enough for me. she got kaylee on the back tonight and left a good impression of her top and bottom teeth. i'm not sure what to do with her to get her to see that she really hurts her sissy. i make her say sorry (which she does well), and then she has to give her a kiss. i must admit that i did bite her back once, but it did no good. anyway, any ideas???
on to the title of the post. i have often been told that my kids have too many toys. i thought "can you possibly have too many toys?" i answered my own question as me and toya cleaned out the playroom today to make room for the new toys that "santa" brings. we brought 8 big, full trash bags to the dump today. no, we didn't throw them in the trash, but in our town, we have what they call a swap shop where you can out the things that are still good and need a good home and then people can come and look and take the things that they are interested in. anyway, we took the 8 trash bags plus about 3-4 BIG toys. it looked like santa made a trip to the dump :) as toya commented later, "we still have plenty of toys". so, i guess the answer is "yes, you can have too many toys", but atleast it's organized. here is a picture of the "new" playroom. the love seat is not usually in there, but we had to make room for our tree that we got yesterday. i will post pictures of that once we get it decorated. here is the pic, have a great evening!
Friday, December 08, 2006
Too many toys????
Posted by Doug & Stacy Fournier at 8:21 PM
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Stacy,
Wow on the toy room.........I can't believe that is AFTER you took 8 bags of toys to the dump. What a wonderful service that seems to be! When we were moving, I came to same conclusion as you. Yes, you CAN have too many toys!
We always have too many toys too! We also do not have a toy room, we do need one! Anyway we must be on the same wave length we just gave away three bags of toys. I got the kids involved and told them we were helping others... of course the person I gave them to left them on my porch by accident and when she came back the next day to get them they were gone! We think with the many charity drives going on in our neighborhood someone collected them by mistake, we know of three groups that were asking for donations. I was mad, but I guess I prefer to think that someone "good" got them. A lot of them could have been sold but I preferred to donate and have my kids understand that it was important to give and to not have too much stuff you don't need. Oh well my kids still got the lesson, and I guess I got one too- don't leave stuff on the porch!
Anyway Stacy your pics are so cute of your kids!
Too funny! We just did the same thing. We also took 1/2 of what we kept and put them in Rubbermade 18 qt containers. Every few months we will rotate the toys. That way they will feel "new" again. We did this when we were in an apt and it works great.
When we buy another home, I am getting one with a family room to use as a toy room. We will use the bedrooms just for sleeping and keeping clothes in. I want just one room to pick up instead of the living room and bedrooms!!
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