MEMO
TO: Grandmas, papas, aunties, uncles, friends, friends of our children, various others who may have a desire to purchase our children any toys whatsoever
FROM: The Schmidt Parents
CC: Santa
DATE: November 4, 2007
RE: Schmidt children toy moratorium
We truly do appreciate your past generosity to our offspring, AE and JG, however we - the parental units - simply cannot deal with any more Legos, game pieces, Littlest Pet Shops and movies at this time.
While the Schmidt children were away today their parents decided to take it upon themselves to "organize" the mess under the stairs since we have fully acknowledged that our children do not understand that cleaning up their toys does not mean building a 2 x 3 foot pile of crap in the toy closet.
After 3 hours we managed the separation of 985 both big and small Lego pieces, location of 349 Thomas the Tank Engine rails and engines and the location $5,498,387 in Life money (do I need to mention how bloody hard it is to find those little people in the carpet?), we decided that we can take no more.
So until our minor children take responsibility for the cleaning up of their belongings after playdates we will have no more additions to our already full household.
Again, we do thank you for your generous past contributions and will let you know if Santa will be allowed to "stop by" this season.
TO: Grandmas, papas, aunties, uncles, friends, friends of our children, various others who may have a desire to purchase our children any toys whatsoever
FROM: The Schmidt Parents
CC: Santa
DATE: November 4, 2007
RE: Schmidt children toy moratorium
We truly do appreciate your past generosity to our offspring, AE and JG, however we - the parental units - simply cannot deal with any more Legos, game pieces, Littlest Pet Shops and movies at this time.
While the Schmidt children were away today their parents decided to take it upon themselves to "organize" the mess under the stairs since we have fully acknowledged that our children do not understand that cleaning up their toys does not mean building a 2 x 3 foot pile of crap in the toy closet.
After 3 hours we managed the separation of 985 both big and small Lego pieces, location of 349 Thomas the Tank Engine rails and engines and the location $5,498,387 in Life money (do I need to mention how bloody hard it is to find those little people in the carpet?), we decided that we can take no more.
So until our minor children take responsibility for the cleaning up of their belongings after playdates we will have no more additions to our already full household.
Again, we do thank you for your generous past contributions and will let you know if Santa will be allowed to "stop by" this season.
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