1. A plunger. Six year old boys are incapable of using a reasonable amount of toilet paper.
2. A screw driver. To replace the batteries in all those noisy toys the grandparents bought.
3. Plastic shopping bags. For a variety of uses including, but not limited to, sealing up toxic diapers, as a barf bag and for carrying home clothes removed after the vomiting. Your clothes.
4. Empty cardboard boxes. Better at entertaining them than any toy you could ever buy them.
5. Caffeine. Necessary to counter-act the 18+ years of sleep deprivation.
6. Slippers. To wear when you get out of bed at night so you don’t impale your bare foot on a Lego in the dark.
7. A very reliable vacuum cleaner. Does that really need explanation?
8. Milk. You’ll always be out of it.
9. A secret chocolate stash. To help you cope with watching Finding Nemo for the 237th time.
10. A big heart. To store all the joy, love and memories that overflow every day.
So true! Now that my kids are older they’ve gone from noisy toys to blaring stereos in their rooms. Thanks for the walk down memory lane, LOL!
These are so great! For sure agree with you on caffeine and the vacuum (specifically for us, vacuum bags). And you’re so right about milk. Why is it that you’re always out of milk?! And even without boys, the plunger is a must.
I don’t have little legos around my house to step on but my cousin recently had a HUGE bruise on her foot due to stepping on some in the middle of the night. But I still see slippers as a must. I would add paper, scissors, tape and crayons as a necessity. Those things keep my girls busy for at least 15 minutes on days when we can’t go outside.