Friday, August 22, 2008

Mommy Secrets Revealed!

For those of you wondering how we do it all: Raise the kids; work; volunteer; therapies; housework; laundry; take care of hubby; cook; blog; read other blogs; etc. I have a little secret: We don't (or at least I don't.) I came downstairs the morning to this:



If you are really brave, you can click and enlarge the pictures. You may notice that I did NOT watermark these pictures. I did this on purpose because that takes time and if anyone actually wanted to steal these photos (and no, I'm not giving you permission!) then I don't know that I want them linking back to me!

Gotta run, motherhood calls. Have a great weekend!

Oh yeah, one quick question: What's with that stupid McAfee showing up everywhere in place of pictures? Is anyone else seeing this or is it just my computer?

24 comments:

RK said...

Thanks for putting that out there!! I feel so much better! I'm always looking in the background of the "at home" pics people post, just to see if anyone else has clutter that sometimes gets me. I'm just saying thanks for being real!

Stephanie said...

You don't want to see pictures of my house after me spending all week taking Aiden to and from school and all the meetings we have had this week. LOL!!!

And it must be your computer, I'm not getting any McAfee thingys.

kirsty815 said...

OMG that's totally what my kitchen looks like right now. The sad thing is I just cleaned it a day ago. Your definitely one brave lady for putting it out there.

Kirst

kirsty815 said...

PS Minus the clutter you've got a lovely kitchen! ~grin~

Love the sock on the floor, that is sooo my house..lol

Lis Garrett said...

You've really been putting on your brave suit lately!!!

I would LOVE for a kitchen as big as yours. However, that means it would be 10 times as messy as it is now!!

rjb said...

Hey! When did you take a picture of my kitchen? I'm in the middle of a garage sale (idea of kid #2 & her friend) and every time Kid #1 puts anything out here Kid #2 decides she isn't finished with it yet. So where does it land???? In the middle of the bar in the kitchen!!

Oh well. I'm sure it will keep me from buying new dress pants and tshirts for her in the next year.

You are going to clean all that before I visit again right ;)

Barbara Swafford said...

Hi Debbie,

That's funny to me as I don't even have kids at home and that's how my kitchen often looks.

I have a feeling you spend your time on what REALLY matters, raising those three beautiful daughters and being a wife.

Have a great weekend. The chores will wait.

Debbie Yost said...

Kirsty,
That's funny! I didn't even notice the sock. I get so tired of tripping over those things.

Lis,
And yet, amazingly I still never have any counterspace!

rjb,
Yeah, like you plan on visiting. You always have an excuse. Speedskating! Ha! Good luck on the garage sale.

Barbara,
Well, I tried, but I'm not showing you the rest of the house! I can only take so much embarrassment. :)

Everyone,
Well, I finally got the kitchen cleaned (not the island, that's never clutter free!) only to make dinner and the counters are again a mess. I'll do it tomorrow. I'm going to watch a movie now!

Kele said...

Debbie, I wanted to stop by and thank you for praying for my Presley, truly.
I took a peek around your blog, what a sweet family you have.
I will definitely be stopping by again!

Mamarazzi said...

WOW!!

you are seriously brave.

love it...if you lived closer i would be on your doorstep right now ready and willing to help!

i love the space in your kitchen BTW...i would love that much room, it is one of the biggest complaints i have living here.

Kidzmama said...

See, there's the proof, you spend WAY too much time with your hubby and kids!

AZ Chapman said...

That is like my room blogging i s a addatiction huah

Deb - Mom of 3 Girls said...

Hey, how did pictures of my kitchen end up on your blog? LOL ;)

Sadly, that's about the state of mine too on many occasions. :)

Muthering Heights said...

Yikes, what a mess!

By th the way, how DO you watermark your photos?

JennyH said...

Good photo! My house always looks like that. I swear, I can clean a room completely and the next time I look at it, it is a disaster again!

melmst said...

Wow. I just took a deep breath. I just mopped my kitchen floor and had to save the water in the sink for my husband to see...because it was SO brown. I acually had to SCRAPE banana off of the floor. dried, brown banana. thanks for the pics...I think your kitchen looks like home, to me. :) ...on a side note..how do you watermark your photos? should I be doing that, you think? :)

Jen said...

I'm not seeing the McAfee, but I do LOVE this post! It's totally what my kitchen looks like right now and a lot of the time. It's good to know I'm not the only one that isn't perfect or portray that they are. It's so hard to keep up with it all!

Karen said...

I'd actually wish for them to trace those pictures back to you so that they didn't know it was actually my kitchen they were looking at.

Shannon @ Gabi's World said...

Looks like my kitchen and living room and bedroom and etc... but I am NOT taking pictures! :P

And not seeing Macaffe here!

Jonny's Mommy said...

Ugh. You don't want to see what our house looks like right now. Talk about nightmare!

jensam said...

you are so awesome for putting those pics on here! LOVE it!

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Mary said...

I know! My place is a mess more often than not. I've been trying to take care of that problem (hence the lack of blogging and checking others' blogs).

BTW, LOVE the American Idol audition!

Carey said...

That is hilarious, way to familiar of a site. I'm so glad I'm not the only one!!!

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