Lost socks
Leftover gadgets that don’t go to anything
Flashlights
Receipts
Food – old food, empty wrappers
Cat toys
Screwdrivers (not the drink)
Bottle caps
One shoe
You name it, I have found it in my stepson’s room. No joke. The kid just picks things up as he is meadering through the house. And if you ask him if he has seen it? Nope. No idea what you are talking about.
Trolls in the house, taking things?
Nope
A 9 year old boy
Who apparently, without his own knowledge, picks things up at random and they end up lost for months until we clean his room. And most of them I find in his bed. Seriously this kid has to have bruises from lying on stuff. Not to mention the piles of sand that accumulate in his sheets.
astounds me
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February 8, 2008 at 7:29 am
stepmama drama
When our kids go to their home in Texas, I like to clean out the whole room, freshen it up, put clean linens on the beds, etc. I am amazed every time at what I find under the bed, of all places. From granola bars (when did I last buy granola bars anyway?) to MY t-shirts, to shoelaces that don’t belong to any of our shoes. Where does this stuff come from??
February 9, 2008 at 7:45 pm
zarlyng
Hey, at least you don’t have hamster poop in the bed. That’s a fun one…
February 22, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Barbara
Dazed looks, long periods of sleep, forgeting what you said to him. His grades? Do teachers see that same dazed look? I am now 50, as a child, my parents punished me for the ignoring them, so did the teachers. Then I had a seizure. Diagnosis…epilepsy. It comes in all forms. check epilepsy.com for some indications. My oldest son inherited it from me…we were able to recognize it and not punish but help. There is a reason children do not listen. Instead of “Go wash your hands” Try…” I love those
dirty hands when we are working outside, but clean hands show you care for yourself and your hygene”