No more toys!

I only have two children, but somebody tell me why my house looks like I'm running a home daycare. The kitchen set is in my living room, potty chairs in both the hallway and the bathroom. I'm tossing wrestling men out my bed when I go to lay down, and I don't even want to think about the storage room that is wall to wall baby furniture, clothes and yes, more toys.

When my son was little I would conveniently send him to his grandmothers house and tow his toys he no longer played with to the basement every couple of months. I did this just before Christmas, but I find that there is still an abundance of toys. I went and bought the biggest storage tub that I could find and dumped all the toys in there, but I'm now afraid that the 3 feet high mountain of toys will avalanche on my children.

Even my kids think it's too much. When they come to me saying that they can't find a particular toy. I'll tell them to go look in their toy box, but merely seconds later they return empty handed, considering it a lost cause. I blame my husband, sweet man as he is. He just can't resit those two sets of puppy dog eyes looking at him singing "daaaddyyy". And I try to remind him that it's not necessary to buy a kids meal every time we get fast food. I have those little cheap plastic toys falling out my car when I open the back door.

Of course I'll take my part of the blame, too. I haven't been the "toy regulator" in quite some time and it has gotten way out of hand. I guess it's time for some spring cleaning. We'll set a date and ask one of our parents to watch the kids for a couple of hours. If they have any love for us at all, they will not send them back home with another toy.