up the down staircase

Wasn't there a book or a movie or a British sitcom called Up the Down Staircase? If Meg Ryan wasn't in it and Jane Austin didn't write it...then I am just not an expert on it. SO do you have these? The blue tub. Stuff to go upstairs to the boy's rooms. Tomorrow - there are going to be three halloween buckets there. No more Mommy taking things up for you. I am going to put each thing I find into the bucket for the kid that brought it down the steps. They don't even have that much stuff in their rooms - how does it end up all over the house? The basket - That goes on the steps down to the basement. The playroom, storage, classroom/craft room are down there. Dude - I was amazed that this basket wasn't over flowing when the pic was snapped. I am the one who mostly fills this up. There is always stuff not only in the wrong room of the house - but a whole level or two off. At least I am getting a work out. When people ask me if I exercise - I tell them I do the stairs. And that is just for returning things to their rightful spots. Don't get me started on how many times I go upstairs and find myself in Max's room...just standing there. I go back down the steps. Hi Max. Oh look, you are naked. I guess I went up the stairs to get you clothes. Get clothes for Max. Get clothes for Max. (whap - haha - ok, no one else will think this is funny - but if you saw Montey Python's search for the Holy Grail and remember the part with the monks chanting and then whapping themselves in the head with a board....well, that is the little derailment my brain just took.....now what was I talking about?) Get clothes for Max. I chant that from room to room. Bummer if some young lad, probably not clothed either, asks me a question on the way. So, just in case you wonder what I do with my free time. Here it is. I specialize in taking things that are in the wrong place and putting them in the right place. Tomorrow... the children are gonna learn a little something about that. OH - and if you want to tell me to just take the stuff I find away - it doesn't work on my kids. They are fine with that. Off to get out the Halloween buckets. However - I so can see a discussion about why Halloween has to be so far away is in my future once the buckets are out. Hope your Wed is swell:) kelli ps - Max quote for the day Me - hey Maxie, we are going to the the Dr. for you today. Max- but I'm fine He had a 3 year old well check up today. He is in fact 3 and well. He weighs - get this 24 pounds. I was stunned. They were happy. He gained 3 pounds this past year. He doesn't look scrawny. Ok - looks like we gotta get back on track with going to Chick-fil-A at least twice a week again:)