Friday, November 6, 2009

Living In My Large Family--Odds and Ends

Here is a list that I have gotten used to; some of these things I know come from living in a large family, while the rest come from...Well, living in a family. lol

>You should be prepared to be called by at least three different names before the person calling you gets the correct name (Yes, this includes family members as well).

>You should be well prepared to go searching for your clothes if you don't do your own laundry as we all tend to where the same style and no one can remember who wears what size.

>Trying not to fight over what music, movie, or game you play is not a rare thing, but something that helps your sanctification.

>Getting more than five minutes on the computer in one sitting is about like asking for it to snow on Christmas Eve in Houston. (This means every one of these post takes anywhere from three hours to three weeks to get completed.)

>Things NEVER go as you planned!! Chores take three times longer then you wanted them to, movies are always getting stopped and rewound because someone missed a part of it, you are always leave thirty minutes later then you wanted too (or so it seems).

2 comments:

Sarah Chips said...

haha right on with the clothes. What we ended up doing (besides us olders doing our own laundry) is writing our names on the tags with a sharpie. That works quite well too until 1 of 2 things happens. 1) the sharpie wears off and you can no longer read what name is written or 2)the clothes are handed down to the next child and then it all gets confusing with the tags and all. lol

Katarina said...

We do something similar to that. We do a hash mark for whatever number child you are and then when it was handed down, we would add another so it was easy to 'update'.

The only problem was when one person hated the tag and ripped it out or like you said and the sharpie wears off.