Really, it shouldn't be this hard

This morning as I stood in MY bathroom and noticed MY tub filled with bath toys and MY counter tops covered in pink toothpaste and MY cabinets filled with Strawberry Shortcake Bubble Bath and MY hamper full of Dora the Explorer unmentionables and MY hair accessories shoved to the back of the drawer behind hair bows, ribbons and tangle spray and MY makeup drawer overtaken with Hello Kitty nail polish and glitter body gel and the SpongeBob foaming hand wash by MY sink and the pink and purple step stool used to wash hands that I trip over daily, I decided it was high time to take MY bathroom back!

They have a perfectly good bathroom upstairs located right next to their bedrooms. What a novel idea to actually bathe and brush your teeth within feet of the place you are ending up in for the night (in theory). How awesome would it be to not have to run up and down the stairs a bajillion times to grab nightgowns and towels. Why I never thought of this before...

It's a cute bathroom too. Decked out in pink, green and yellow striped shower curtains, matching towels, coordinating soap dish, toothbrush holder and cup. I even have some matching picture frames/wall hooks I could take out of the boxes and utilize. What little princess would not love this bathroom, besides mine?

I stood in my bathroom grabbing things to take upstairs when I came upon the pile of 7 toothbrushes. Yes, that's right, 7. None of them mine. Why two little girls have 7 toothbrushes, I'm not sure, but they do. And me, being the bad mom that I am, did not know what belonged to who. I never do. I send them into the bathroom to brush their teeth knowing that they know which one they've been sticking in their mouth. By the time I walk in to help brush off the remaining "sugar bugs" they've already been brushing for a while. So, me clueless. And I chunked them all. Because I figured, new bathroom, new toothbrushes and new storage bins and new bathrobes... Oh Target, here I come ;-)

I've decided today that there is nothing more frustrating than buying a child's toothbrush. My plan was to go in there and grab one in their favorite color, so even I could know what belongs to who, and be done with it. Sounds easy. Not so much.

See they didn't have any plain green or blue toothbrushes for children. They had toothbrushes that sing Hannah Montana and the Super Mario Brothers theme song. They had toothbrushes that rotate. They had toothbrushes with handles in the shape of the Hulk's head or Barbie's body. They had toothbrushes that light up for a whole minute to help your child know when to stop brushing. But no plain green or blue toothbrushes.

So I decided maybe I'll get ones with their favorite Princesses on them. I found Sleeping Beauty no problem but Snow White was missing in action. Not that it mattered because all the handles are too freaking big to fit in the totally overpriced adorable toothbrush holder purchased at Pottery Barn Kids. The only toothbrushes that would have fit were the Sesame Street ones and there would have been hell to pay had I bought those, because everyone knows that Sesame Street is "so toddler"!

So I left, toothbrushless. Because honestly it would have been easier for me to shop for drill bits. But when I got home, I remembered that they truly are toothbrushless. Which apparently is not a problem, because Kathryn has informed me she likes to use MY toothbrush anyway!