Apartment Rules

I haven't had much time to write lately, as we've moved out of our townhouse, attended a festive college wedding, dropped our kids halfway to Grandma's house, picked up our kids halfway to Grandma's house, watched John's little siblings in Wisconsin for a weekend, and dealt with vomiting, pink-eye, and massive head-colds all in the last 10 days.  Whew.   In addition to Lucy's birthday, friendship catastrophe, and more.

But.  (Here's the good part.)  I humbly offer to you the Top 10 Things about Living in An Apartment with 3 Kids under 4:

10. Really big dogs in the building are good grounds for scaring your children into not opening the door.
9. One bathroom is SO much easier to clean than three bathrooms.
8. If my kids defecate, puke, or spit up on the carpet, I just repeat to myself, "Not my carpet.  Not my carpet."
7. Small children in the neighborhood envy what they think is our "glamorous" and "ritzy" building.
6. Tommy can occupy himself watching the trashman load all the building trash into his garbage truck...right from our living room window.
5.  Long hallways are secretive and mysterious to small children.
4. We don't have to go outside to get the mail.
3. The newspaper is delivered to our inside door, just like in a fancy hotel.
2. We still live right down the road from our favorite cousins, preschool, and our church.

And the number one best thing about living in a temporary apartment is:

1.  Every day, the kids love to take our trash bags to the "trash chute" at the end of the hall.  Does anyone else get to throw their trash down a chute? 

Awesome.

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