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Ta-Da..If I Had A Magic Wand~FTSF 34

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Welcome back to Finish The Sentence Friday Blog Hop (FTSF).  We give you a sentence and you finish it (however long or short you’d like).  Please feel free to link up and follow any or all of our hostesses, which are below.

And now for this week’s sentence to finish:  “If I had a magic wand, the first thing I’d do is…“
And the next sentence to finish:  “My best summertime memory this year was…”

If I had a magic wand, the first thing I’d do is…

I would love to wave and have it  clean for me.

No joke, I am not a dirty person in the least, but I admit that I just loathe and despise cleaning.

The Before--Just Another Mess!
The Before–Just Another Mess!

My girls make a mess with their toys all day long everyday, but then as much as we have made them accountable for these messes, we (Kevin and I) still are always picking up toys at night before bed time.  Plus, being stay at home mom, I am constantly cleaning up their messes all day long.

Probably doesn’t help that they have a ton of toys or that everyone around them has spoiled them rotten with toys. Seriously our home could double for a small Toys R Us!

I finally had enough of this and recently went through and tossed some of their stuff that was beyond repair, as well as donated what I could.

The Donated Toys--Helped to Clean Up One Days Mess At Least!
The Donated Toys–Helped to Clean Up One Days Mess At Least!

We are firm believers in donating whenever possible.

And trust me they had more then enough to go around and still do, but at the very least it is more manageable.

But if someone did give me that magic wand (maybe the girls can loan one of the Princess Wands), I would surely use it to clean up whatever messes still do occur daily, because by the end of the night I would much rather my tired self wave that magic wand then clean the mess myself!

I Could Use Princess Sophia's (Emma's) Wand!!
I Could Use Princess Sophia’s (Emma’s) Wand!!

If you too had a magic wand, what would you do with it?

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  1. Billybuc says

    I would wave it and find myself in a log cabin in the mountains at the foot of an alpine lake, and I could fish and write, fish and write, fish and write.

    Have a great Friday Janine!

    • Janine Huldie says

      I know Dana and trust me the neat freak in me cringes at the daily messes around here. And I love that we had the same thought, because I was feeling a bit selfish about this post, but glad it isn't just me. So thank you for letting me know that tonight!! 🙂

  8. babygatesdown says

    Oooh! This would be nice. When I clean, I sometimes feel like I have a pint sized, mobile, "undo" button following me 'round the house as I go. Seriously, what's the point?

    "Cleaning Service" is definitely on my list of things I'd love to have. Maybe one day!
    My recent post If I had a Magic Wand…

  9. Lanaya says

    Too cute .. My magic wand would be to magically transport myself to anywhere I want at any time {it would probably involve a beach and a lot of liquor most of the time – but hey? Can you blame me?}
    I'm a clean freak by nature … but I am getting better at not cleaning all the time!

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  14. Karen says

    I think all moms should get magic wands for cleaning up when they leave the hospital…should be a new rule! Emma looks so cute in her Princess sophia outfit. I know who Sophia is from my neice…Dino goes there and say "I hate princesses" because she loves princesses like he loves dinosaurs.
    My recent post WITH A SWISH OF MY WAND

    • Janine Huldie says

      I love that and we really should get wands we first leave with a newborn. And that is too funny that Dino hates the princesses. He would hate it at my house then, because my girls would probably try to dress him up, lol!! 🙂

  19. tamaralikecamera says

    Scarlet is next to me right now and she's going crazy for Emma's dress, gloves and purse. And she has many magic wands to loan too! I think if I had a magic wand right now I'd make distance easier. As in teleporting. "Poof!" I'm there. And I can photograph all of our friend's kids and meet y'all for coffee and ravioli.
    I love the hosts of FTSF! I don't know Stephanie but I am avid readers of the rest of you, so she must be amazing.
    My recent post Fields of Gray: Truro, Part 2.

    • Janine Huldie says

      I think Scarlet and Emma could really be best of friends and sounds like they totally have the princess thing in common. Stephanie is a doll and actually all my co-hosts are just amazing and so lucky to have them alongside of me for this linkup. And I love what you wand could do and would so enjoy being able to conjure about anything whenever I wanted, too!! 🙂 xoxo!!

  20. Linda Roy says

    Yep, I wished for the same thing – a cleaning wand! A cleaning up Legos wand alone would be a welcome addition to our house!
    My recent post Is Anybody Home???

  24. realhousewife says

    Seriously that was my first thought….I want a cleaning magic wand!! I hate spending my time cleaning. I think I'm the only mom in town that actually let's the kids play in the house…ok well now they hang out. Still, I've got messes I clean up after six or seven kids a day! I put up with it because my oldest is 25…..I've learned it's a temporary frustration I will miss one day.

  27. Rosey says

    I finally gave up the constant battle with toys and put half in the garage. We rotate them and half way through the year change them out w/the ones in little man's room. It helps. A little. He's still got too many. There's still always a toy or ten somewhere out of place. Legos are the worst!
    My recent post Woohoo, My 'Baby' is 6!

    • Janine Huldie says

      I know cleaning is a must and I really am happy to donate. We told Emma when we were doing this and was none too happy about it and then she softened quite a bit. So, I hope she is beginning to learn and understand that we should do nice things for others who may not be able to do for themselves.

  29. cgacad says

    i love to clean so i think we could trade duties! you can cook your famous sliders for me and i will clean for you! it would make me happy to clean too! i am really not joking. i love cleaning and organizing. when i was a teenager, everyone loved when i babysat because not only were the kids happy, but i always picked up their stuff and organized the toys.

  31. jenkehl says

    Every once in a while we do a purge. It feels AWESOME! There's a great book called Simplicity Parenting, it explains how when a child has too many choices (in toys) it actually inhibits there decision making skills and makes it harder for them to use their imagination (big picture). Greatest advice ever! I got a rid of a lot of toys after that!

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