Gross!

     We all have to deal with a lot of gross throughout our lives. Probably a bit more of it when you have kids. Also, maybe the more kids the more gross. That could depend on your kids. Although they cannot conrol how often they get sick with the gross symptoms of throwing up and diarrhea. They all get potty trained and some have more accidents than others. All part of the parenting fun for us and growing up for them. My one son is prone to bloody noses. I can deal with them, sort of have to as mom, but they make me nervous and of course gross me out more than some other things. I'll take throw up any time over any type of bleeding from the face. That just pushes me over the edge.
     As kids get older they get more stinky. Yeah, sure, we all do. One of those fun facts of life. Showering and teeth brushing is a major thing. Having to remind everyone to do it really gets to be a pain in the butt. Maybe I've told them, "You stink! One too many times because if I just say, "I think you should shower." They generally don't until I say something more direct like, "Get in the shower, now!" Same goes for brushing the teeth. Direct orders and the jobs get done. Most of my kids are certainly old enough to know and want to be clean yet for some strange reason do not. I just don't get it.
     I think that book "Everybody Poops" is hysterical, not to mention true. Pretty sure I've read iot to all the kids. On our cross country road trip, while at the Grand Canyon I couldn't resist getting their book titled, "Who pooped in the park." It shows what different animals poop looks like so you can tell what animal had been there. Well I've finally got my older animals trained to at least try to get rid of their poop smell in my bathroom. Febreeze doesn't cut it anymore. When the stink starts heading down the hallway I can't take it. My husband has long said I've got a nose like a dog so yes a lot of smells get to me. They know that even if it's winter that bathroom window better be opened so the smell doesn't stay in the house. Now I am working on getting them to remember to close said window, especially in the winter.
     We've all got special peeves that put us over the edge, do we not? A big one for me is when someone brings the bathroom garbage into the kitchen. My kids collect the garbage and get it out two days a week as one of their chores. Instead of taking a bag around the house to dump all the pails into they collect all the pails and bring them to the kitchen or outside directly to the larger pails when it's warm out. Many times I've tried to get them to use the bag as this is my way, the one that makes the most sense, and how I was taught to do it. They refuse, well not anymore. I walked into the kitchen the other night and the bathroom garbage pail was sitting on my kitchen counter nice and full. I screamed at my son about it because I was so totally grossed out and left the room. Not much later I walk back into the area and the same pail is now sitting on the table. Same table we eat dinner at! Sure they play play doh and arts and crafts things there but the bathroom garbage on that table just pushed me too far. There will no longer be a collecting of the pails in this house! I also made said gross child scrub down the counter and the table and use a bag! Something about the bathroom garbage in the area where I make food and eat it every day is the grossest thing to me!