There is stuff everywhere!

I really like it when my kids play, but lately I can never seem to keep up with all of the messes made everywhere. Not just from them. It's just "stuff" creeping out from everywhere. I don't know where it is coming from. As soon as I clean one room, another is messy. Sigh... Actually I was laughing to myself at the girls the other night because of all the "paper dolls" they have ALL OVER THE HOUSE. They like to color in coloring books or draw their own pictures and then cut them out. They also cut them out of magazines, or collect stickers; anything is fair game. Olivia will get excited when she comes home from school or primary with a picture that is perfect for cutting up. They will play with the tiniest pieces of paper and then gasp when I pick them up to throw them in the trash. "Oh, sorry. I didn't realize this tiny piece of paper was a toy." And their is no discrimination amongst paper toys and real toys. They can all play together in harmony. A barbie doll may have a paper little girl for a child. A paper Strawberry Shortcake can ride in a toy car.
It makes hours and days of endless play. They just have a hard time parting with the old ones and I am often performing a bit of surgery with tape on the torn ones. So we have a box full of these "paper dolls" which I make them empty out every once in a while to make room for more, well, paper dolls.