Thursday, January 7, 2010

Unexpected Events

Today I fully intended to blog this awesome thank you message to everyone who stopped by to make my SITS Day so wonderful. I wanted to let you know how awesome comment love is. I planned to tell you how I could hardly sleep for the past couple of nights because I have been up reading and responding to all the comments. I am in Comment Heaven, but thanks to one little person in my house, I must write about something else.

Writing and sharing with you guys is my way of venting my frustrations and right about now I am about to explode! For months now I have been smelling this horrible urine smell in my downstairs bathroom. I scrub it just about everyday trying to rid it of the fresh smell of urine. It smells like a little boys restroom at a nasty daycare center. It has been horrible because it is the only restroom downstairs for guest to use and the upstairs is off limits to guest, so I always find myself explaining to guest that I'm not completely nasty. I do clean that bathroom nearly everyday and I just can't seem to get rid of the smell for longer than about 1 hr. I mean I scrub on my hands and knees and polish that toilet and I lysol the wood and wipe the walls down and 1 hr later the smell is back. Today I found the problem. I walked into the bathroom to find one of my precious little boys urinating in the heating vent!!! I thought I would pass out. Out of 14 years of mommying, I've never had this happen. I lifted the vent to find a horrible urine odor floating up into the restroom on the wings of that expensive gas heat. If I lived in a cartoon I would have seen the odors waving at me. How did I miss this? Who told him this was a good idea? And when I asked him why, he replied that he liked the way it sounded. What?!?!?! Breathe, breathe......now how am I supposed to clean that?

14 comments:

  1. Oh you poor girl ~ what was he thinking? Okay we must look for the good in all situations. Now you will be able to clean it up and you will no longer have the smell. Hooray for that!

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  2. I don't know if I'm not supposed to laugh at this or not. But I'm laughing at the situation not at you. Girl, I don't know how to tell you to get that smell out. The things little boys too. I could tell you a few places where I've caught my son. Boyz!!!!!

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  3. Oh you poor thing! I've heard of that happening before...same story exactly. I don't have any suggestions except that I promise that 10 years from now it will be funny. Hang in there!

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  4. Oh my goodness! I'm reading your post and thinking to myself...I shouldn't feel too bad for being so upset at my 3 year old for stuffing an entire PILLOW down a heating vent...I mean who knew these little holes throughout your house could be so interesting!

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  5. Oooooh no. Cripes that is irritating! I hope you come up with a solution for the smell and I hope your little one now knows that is NOT okay!

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  6. Well, It looks like it will end up in the same place as the toilet. I can see his thinking...but I feel for you. Oh my! Just think once it's clean you will free up some extra time not scrubbing the bathroom so hard.

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  7. Kids do the craziest things - sometimes I can't stop myself from asking them just what in the heck they were thinking. At least you can clean it now.

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  8. Lol...our children never cease to amaze us! Just when you think you've saw it all...they prove you wrong!

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  9. I laughing and crying. Laughing cause that is just too cute, and crying in fear that my little guy will one day do that.

    At least you now know what that smell is.

    Karen,

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  10. Thank Goodness you found it! Boys. I tell you. I have an award for you, I enjoy your blog so much. Find it here at: http://viviannesvista.blogspot.com/2010/01/walking-red-carpet.html

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  11. Oh my gosh - so glad I stopped by late (missed your SITS day, just getting around to visiting) - that is hilarious and atrocious all at once!!
    Mental note: cover bathroom vents ;)

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  12. I'm late in stopping by from SITS day, but I sure am glad I stopped in today. WOW! Good thing you finally figured out why you still keep having the urine smell. I wonder if spraying lysol in the vent might help. I'm sure it wouldn't hurt anyway. Thanks for sharing that story with us!

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  13. Oh wow, well good luck with that one. I'm sure it will happen to me one day too. I have a little stinker of a first-grader and he'll try anything once!

    I'm a late-stopper-by-er from your SITS day. SO happy SITS day, belated!

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