Every home develops unique flows and patterns among its family members.

Perhaps your kids dump their book bags on the couch after school every day.

Or little Johnny is never a sweetie who wipes the seatie if he sprinkles while he tinkles.

These annoying habits grate your nerves, right?

My family enters the house through the garage or backdoor, kicking off their shoes around the kitchen table. We’ll have ten pairs of shoes around the table at any time (four are my son’s). Pulling out a chair to use the table for its designed purpose is a stumbling hazard.

Speaking of chairs, they serve exceptionally well as coat hangers.

Every clutter-free cell I inherited from my mother’s gene pool tingles when I walk into the kitchen while two lonely shoe racks beckon just ten feet away. It can’t be that hard for humans over four years old to put shoes where they belong.

Where are my kids so I can yell at them?

Then, a revelation whispers: the shoes around your table will walk away to create patterns in their own homes before you’re ready for them to go.

Yeah, okay. I hear you.

What about you? Do you have annoying family patterns that you should ignore?

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