My friend sent me this email this morning, and I just HAD to share!
A man came home from work and found his three children outside, still in their pajamas, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the front yard. The door of his wife’s car was open, as was the front door to the house and there was no sign of the dog.
Proceeding into the entry, he found an even bigger mess.
A lamp had been knocked over, and the throw rug was wadded against one wall. In the front room the TV was loudly blaring a cartoon channel, and the family room was strewn with toys and various items of clothing. In the kitchen, dishes filled the sink, breakfast food was spilled on the counter, the fridge door was open wide, dog food was spilled on the floor, a broken glass lay under the table, and a small pile of sand was spread by the back door .

He quickly headed up the stairs, stepping over toys and more piles of clothes, looking for his wife. He was worried she may be ill, or that something serious had happened.
He was met with a small trickle of water as it made its way out the bathroom door. As he peered inside he found wet towels, scummy soap and more toys strewn over the floor. Miles of toilet paper lay in a heap and toothpaste had been smeared over the mirror and walls.
As he rushed to the bedroom, he found his wife still curled up in the bed in her pajamas, reading a novel. She looked up at him, smiled, and asked how his day went.
He looked at her bewildered and asked, “What happened here today?”
She again smiled and answered, “You know every day when you come home from work and you ask me what in the world did I do today?”
“Yes,” was his incredulous reply.
She answered, “Well, today I didn’t do it.”
(I found the images on the internet…but I have a few images in my head that would have gone with this story quite nicely….unfortunately, on those occasions I was too busy standing with my mouth wide open to grab the camera!)


lol bet he never ever asked her that again
Thanks for visiting Poppies this morning and leaving a comment. I deleted the extra one. I have a vinyl machine that I can hook up to my computer. It allows me to print off any text or image that I can design. It was a lot of money and when we bought it I was really nervous that I wouldn’t use it very much…ha ha ha..we will definitely get our money’s worth out of that sucker.
I love that story. Something every father should read:)
I love that story. I always think if the house isn’t any worse than it was the day before then it’s been a good day. It means that work did get done because my house is always in a perpetual state of sliding downhill into a state of chaos. Just to stop that downward slide is task. If the house is better than the day before then it’s been a great day.
Yikes! My kids have made some colossal messes before, but thankfully nothing to those proportions!
hehehehehehe… LOVE IT!!!!!!! I have dozens of images you could have easily used for this. The first thing I do when I find my kids with huge messes— I yell— WAIT— HOLD IT—DON’T MOVE— let me get a picture! Beats getting stressed & mad!
:)