Dear Santa, We Want a House for Christmas!

So here is what the Weiss family room looks like on any given day. It is so terribly hard to keep your house clean when you have a toddler running around touching EVERYTHING! I think back to last year at this time and I had no problem. Gracie couldn't walk or even crawl so toys were kept neatly put away in baskets and such. Now it is the complete opposite. I used to at least pick up her toys every night but mostly now I don't even bother. It will be messed up again the next morning. At least most of the toys are kept in one room. For those of you who have never been to my house, we have one big open kitchen and family room so toys leak into the kitchen and occasionaly up the stairs. Once you pick it up, Gracie will go and pull it right back out only to carry it a few feet, drop it, and find another toy she wants to play with. RIght now she is really into books so she has a ton. She has a bookshelf in her room that is full but doesn't touch. She has a bunch in our family room aka toy room that we try to stack neatly but that doesn't work. You can also tell when she has been playing in my room because my books will be pulled off the shelf and my purses will be scattered all over the room. (Yes, I am making her into a girly girl. She loves carrying purses around on her shoulder.Let's hope she doens't ask for a Coach purse anytime soon). She is slowly learning how to clean up but for now she really only utilizes that skill in the bathtub for some unknown reason. So if anybody wants to come over, you will have to wade through the toys to find a seat. We have tried making our finished basement into a toy room by saying "Adios" to my Wizard of Oz stuff and putting toys down there. RIght now though the basement is just one big mess as we have been wrapping Christmas presents. We are just out of room in this little crackerjack house. Our coffee table is shoved against the wall even. And when Santa brings his present, I have no idea where to put it. I keep seeing the commercial for Jared, the Galleria of Jewlery and they say "Oh, he went to Jared." I hope Chuck goes somewhere where I can say "Oh, he went to Remax."

Dear Santa, if you get this, the Weiss family would like a house with a toy room for Gracie and a basement because there are storms.

Sincerely,

Kris, Chuck, Gracie, Hazel and Millie Weiss

P.S. We have tried to be really good this year!