I've posted about this before.
My family has a strange recurring disease that I'm not sure how to cure. Its technical name is ' walk-in-the-house-and-drop-everything-wherever-you-want-itis'. I'm not sure how that translates into Latin.
Just as a warning to my new blogging friends I thought I would point out some of the symptoms so that you can watch for it in your own abode.
The first symptom is a messy house. Everything is everywhere and nothing is where it belongs.
The second symptom is that no one can find anything, and often children will accuse another family member of stealing, taking or moving some of their things. When this symptom goes to the extreme it can result in tears, temper tantrums and severe melt-downs.
The third symptom is that the door to EVERY room becomes blocked with crap stuff. Stuff that has just been dropped there and then left to, oh I don't know - rot maybe? Be eaten by the cat? Or (shudder) be picked up and put away by the maid Mom?
The final symptom, and perhaps the most scary, is that the female parental unit's (in some cases I understand it could be the male's) face suddenly turns purple, steam starts to come out of their ears and then the yelling starts. At this stage the children will usually scatter to the far corners of the house, only to emerge much later to quietly put a few things away. They won't tidy up EVERYTHING but just enough to calm the purple parent down to a more attractive shade of red and reduce the yelling to muttering.
I'm finding that this disease keeps reoccurring at my house with alarming frequency.
And this time around? It's honestly driving me CRAZY.
Anyone know of a vaccine? A purple face is not my best look.
I'm Leanne and I'm a tired mama. I work, I parent, I juggle and I don't seem to get enough sleep. Welcome to the place where I rant about all these things...
This is a very serious disease with a long latin name. You have the dreaded
"ingredior in domus quod occumbo panton qua vos volo" disease. Wow seems its in the neighborhood we have it at our house too.
Posted by: Scholars of the Ancient World | October 20, 2008 at 08:57 AM
We are suffering too! Right at this very moment! What should I do?? Call 911? If you find a remedy or better yet (too much to hope for!) the CURE, please advise!!
Posted by: jori-o | October 20, 2008 at 10:30 AM
I love the descriptiveness in this post. You had me laughing and imagining myself in the same situation. I just threaten with a garbage bag and the sound of it rustling gets my boys up and cleaning. Give it a try sometime.
Posted by: Lynette | October 20, 2008 at 10:42 AM
I'm sorry to inform you that currently, there is no known cure for walk-in-the-house-and-drop-everything-wherever-you-want-itis'. It tends to strike exhausted moms and once it hits, it stays. In fact, it only gets worse. Your only hope is sending your kids to college or boarding school if you can't wait 'til then (the disease follows each carrier) or marrying them off.
By the way, purple is in this season, according to In Style magazine.
Good luck!
Posted by: Keli | October 20, 2008 at 03:00 PM
My family has the same disease although you missed the whole she's not cleaning up accusations that fly right after the purple face syndrome.
Posted by: Anne | October 20, 2008 at 05:19 PM
My god - it's CONTAGIOUS! I read your post and when I looked up from my computer....POOF! My house looks like a dumping ground at Toys R Us.
Ok maybe not "Poof".
Posted by: savvysuzie | October 20, 2008 at 08:34 PM
I am sorry to inform you that I have been working on a vaccine for this for the last 8 years. With every child it seems to get worse in my house. I will keep you informed when a cure is found....lol
Posted by: Lydia @ On The Verge | October 20, 2008 at 09:43 PM
omg, I had no idea we were even sick. We suffer from all of these symptoms. Are you telling me there's no hope for a cure? Oh the humanity!
Posted by: mrsbear | October 21, 2008 at 10:08 AM
It's obviously a genetic defect since it started with the father and trickled down into our kid. At least in my case.
Good luck finding a cure. I'll be happy to donate to the cause.
Posted by: Keli | October 21, 2008 at 08:51 PM
i think my first grader already started to develop that kind of disease as well. :D
Posted by: FickleMinded | October 21, 2008 at 08:52 PM
oh, you figured it out! i have been trying to figure out what we had and reading the symptoms here helped me so much! now that i know what we have i just have to figure out a cure!
Posted by: Kelly | October 21, 2008 at 09:41 PM
ps. love your blog! i'm adding you to my blog list!
Posted by: Kelly | October 21, 2008 at 09:44 PM
ha.
loved the post. is this what i have to look forward to?
luckily, the bean is only 3 mos. old; so all the crap laying around isn't "necessarily" her fault.
hmmmm, a vaccine-
how bout a trashcan to deal w/ the symptoms until a cure is found? ha.
Posted by: mpotter | October 21, 2008 at 11:32 PM
Same thing at my house : )
I just wanted you to know that I love your blog! I left you an award at The Jolly Kitchen.
Posted by: Piera | October 22, 2008 at 02:00 AM
We have this exact some problem, my little sister is chronically stuck with this--- if you ever figure out the solution, I'd be glad to hear of it!
Posted by: Courtney | October 23, 2008 at 05:18 PM