The TWINS that CAN'T stay together

So, I don't know about you, but we have two sets of twins in our house.  One set loves to run and play together and the other...let's just say they can't seem to get along...they want to get as far apart as possible!

The second pair is really a pair...a pair of socks!  We can't keep any of our socks together, well I should say the kids can't keep any of their socks together.  So, I started doing what my mom did for us when we were little.  I purchase a ton of baby safety pins and about two Christmas' ago I gave my son a bag full of blue ones, and each of my daughters their own colors with a bag of  brand new socks.  They had fun with it for a while.  But, as all creative kids do, they started using them for tents, making dresses out of blankets and using the baby pins to hold them in place.  Slowly, the pins kept disappearing.

Now, my  kids have all done their laundry since they were 7, so I figured they would love the fact that they didn't have to search for matching socks when putting their laundry away.  That it would make it easier.  NOPE.  I would find socks all over the place.  I would ask whose it was...never anyone in my house.  Strange, don't you think?

So, I realized I needed to come up with a different way for my family.  What my mom had taught me was not working.  So, this week I purchase some new socks.  Each one in my family got a package.  And I did this to them:

On each sock, for the girls on the bottom and for my son on the toes, I put their name in permanent marker.  Then on each pair I gave them a number.  So, they know what socks go together.  If I find one on the floor they can not claim that it is not theirs.  I know.  It says so.  They each got a set for the whole week.

So, they SHOULDN'T have any problems.  

We shall see how this process goes.  I even did my husband's so the kids' can't say that they are his.  And when my new pack of socks come in the mail I will do the same to mine, since my son and I where the same size now.  My husband and I can prove to the kids that they are the ones leaving their socks everywhere...not mom and dad.

Now to prove that we aren't the ones leaving the toilet paper holder empty...hmmmm....

Pool purification "party"

The kids helped me scrub out the pool the other day so we could use it and not be grossed out! Great job kids! Now we have a pool to jump into on those hot, hot days!

How could it happen so fast?

Yeah, there are lots of things that don't take much time to do, sigh. That only took a moment in time, but I am wondering how my kids wonderfully neat area upstairs could possibly get turned over like a testing site in the matter of minutes. Seriously, I am not joking I am talking minutes. No video until it is all cleaned up...again. Seriously, they worked hard,um, YESTERDAY to get it great. I even taught (another idea to get them excited) them the great and wonderful clock method which they LOVED!! Now if I could just follow it...another blog...anyway, seriously I was working on cleaning a small part of our back room (aka Jason's study) and it happened. When will I learn that if I am actually accomplishing something that something somewhere else(that I am not going to like) is going on. Sigh. Maybe I should post a sign that says, "No playing torpedo to the girls room" (yes he actually did and yes it looked like one went off) or "Games are to be played individually not all of them together, even if it is a creative moment". I swear there is going to be a new game invented at our house from ALL the other games that people have thought of and using all the pieces too. Well, at least I know it will be clean tomorrow afternoon, because it is Family Movie day and it won't happen unless upstairs looks like it did yesterday. So I guess I should complain.