You know your GC have visited when....

I've been looking after my eleven month old grandson at his house for a couple of days every week, surrounded by packing boxes and confined to one room. If I wasn't able to take him out a couple of times a day I'd be going completely stir crazy. As it is I'm exhausted; my back hurts, my wonky knee is playing up, my eyes don't work properly (they keep wanting to stay closed) and my arm muscles may never recover (he's no lightweight my grandson).

Mine don't visit very often due to the distance and the fact that they have lots of weekend activities, but when they do, I can guarantee that I will bruise my foot on an undetected Lego brick; and the ink in my printer will be mysteriously depleted.

When you can't find your feather duster and your last memory of it was it being wielded by Ariel as a Weapon of Mass Destruction

As I can testify AKA a feather duster can come in very handy for all sorts of things, and I don"t just mean dusting, if you get my drift!!
Tee Hee

So the loss of said article could be a bit of a bummer !!

Today I discovered a box in the garden containing a few snails with their obviously favourite selection of leaves that they like in Granny's garden, a small bowl of water and probably added by GD2, two bits of butterkist which I assume is pudding

So glad the snails had some butterkist I never thought of that when I was keeping them in a bucket when I was four!

Oh yes! A selection of snails crawling up walls and table leaving their slime crisscrossed across the floor. The remnants of a snail race! Snails a great favourite of my DGSs. Our garden a great source.....

About 40 pretty snails arranged on the sawn off stump of a big tree - 6 year old DGD. But no butterkist.
The hand towel in the bathroom was down the toilet - DGS age 3 who had to apologise for doing it also got the naughty step for telling a fib at first and saying that he didn't do it !!
Coffee table pushed to the side so that DGD could perform her usual after Sunday dinner freestyle dance, this week it was to One Direction.

Stickers stuck nicely in the books, but all the discarded white bits stuck on my best rug.

All the tiny windfall apples collected and put in a neat pile. thankyou DGD2 age 2.

It's cartwheels and head stands here which GD8 performs well but watching her, just turned 5, sister trying to execute these moves is hilarious. She is so determined it's exhausting watching her.

That should read GD1 aged 8. Good grief, I'm exhausted enough with two without adding another 6!!

DS & DDil's belongings are still scattered round the house after they leave.

You find Elsa in the wardrobe upstairs - Frozen!

Put in there by the snow monster probably rose

she looks blue with cold - but the cold doesn't bother her anyway! Off I go, I'll be singing that all afternoon now.

rose

It takes twice as long to clear up as they actually spent with you. And, your Dh puts anything plastic in the toy box regardless of whether it is a toy or their favourite plate which you then can't find next time they come.

Just had mine to stay for the weekend with their mother and auntie( younger daughter ) Fridge so full of food I could hardly close it. They slept in the car on the way here hence didn't go to sleep until 1am due to excitement still up 6 hours later? What's for breakfast Granny? Shared bed following night with 2 wriggly 5 yea r olds can't have one without the other when they're twins Granny clinging to edge of king size bed all night!

Jelly with sweets in for tea, many trips to the park luckily just around the corner, kids tele has priority. Ham sandwiches for lunch, "I don't eat ham sandwiches any more only cheese". New sandpit bought and paddling pool and then it RAINED! House looks like a bomb dropped when they left then phone call from car on Aunties phone. DGD has left drawings behind so put them in an envelope and post them. Knackered but can't wait for next time I love them SO much.

[grin ] Twice

Lovely to see Federer's twins yesterday - and now they have another set!

Lego under the sofa. Glitter on the table, floor, walls and ceiling (?). Large cardboard constructions made with egg boxes and loo rolls which have to be kept for "our next visit". The kitchen is covered in sprinkles from decorating the pop cakes. Play dough of various colours enhances the otherwise plain carpet. Toy soldiers hide in dark corners ready to spear my feet when I walk past. Greasy finger prints adorn my clean windows and kitchen cupboards in multiple patterns. Our entire collection of board games are scattered around the lounge, but best of all happy laughter rings in my ears....until I fall asleep exhausted among a huge selection of fluffy toys. Who would have it any other way

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At least the patio door is covered in smears so we don't walk into it when it's shut!

I tidy up as soon as the darlings have gone, put all the toys and games away and sit down with a cup of coffee. Over the next couple of hours I find: Lego bricks under the sofa, jigsaw pieces under the cushions, wet pants on bathroom floor, tractor under the table, hair clip and used plaster in sink, dolly's clothes on my bed, spare room duvets and pillows made into a den, empty fish food container beside pond, gravel all over the grass, unripe raspberries picked and discarded, apple cores in the recycling box, coat hanging up which will be needed in the morning, empty jelly wrapper in cupboard. And a precious cuddley which will be needed at bedtime.
Thank goodness they only live 5 minutes walk away.

It's the tiny bits of Lego which DGS loved playing with when he came to stay - he kept complaining that bits were missing when he came to pack up to go home. I found them when I trod on them.

I have been enjoying all the anecdotes and can relate to most of it. Then I realised that this thread had started before I had any DGC!!

The dining room floor underneath the table is littered with food I don't even recognise, along with most of the play dough that was cleared away 5 minutes before dinner. The i pad is covered in sticky fingerprints and the Argos book opened on the page with the most expensive toy in the world with a note saying I would very much like this for Christmas please. Bless 'em