can you really have too much space?

it appears you can. it looks like 2400 square feet is just too much for me and two little people to live in. it isn't that i wish i had less room for them to run or to run from them, or that i wish i had fewer bedrooms to house them or my visiting oldest. instead it is that their toys and games and stuff spreads throughout the house regardless of how many times i fight to contain it.

a few examples: sitting at the dining room table and being goosed by a peek-a-block hiding on the chair and stubbing your toe on one of the 17 (literally) batmen under the table. stepping on spilled grapes in your bedroom when you didn't know they even knew there were grapes in the fridge. sweeping piles of shedding lab out of your front hallway 5 times a day without exaggeration. and dealing with piles of "his" junk mail that even though he saw last night, he didn't take, pick up, or throw out.

it's just too much space to contend with at the moment. i will lock myself in my cluttered, chaotic, yet controlled office and forget about the rest for just a minute.