Clean Houses
Growing up I always wondered how people’s
houses managed to get so messy with kids. I grew up in a house that to me
always seemed so organized and clean- I realize now that my mother worked very
very hard to keep it looking like that. You see I now have a 2 ½ year old and
an 11 month old and I know why the messy kid houses exist. Take today for
example after breakfast I swept the half a bowl of Cheerios up from beneath my
table and got my children dressed. Ten minutes later my daughter comes out of
her room in a completely different outfit and my son is crawling around,
pulling books off the shelf and magnets off the fridge. I then decide to wash
my floors. Fifteen minutes later the floors are sparkly and I have put away the
toys and life is looking good. Then my daughter gets her juice out, spills a
bit on the floor and my son crawls through that….time to change clothes again
and wash the floor again…..And so this cycle continues throughout the day…Clean
up little messes, change clothes, toilet train, clean up messes , repeat….As I
sit here tonight I realize that yes it was a day of messes and yes my house
doesn’t show any of the work I put in to cleaning it today but I am a lucky
mom. I have two happy healthy kids who have enough energy to make messes, a
daughter who tries to clean up the messes and I have the ability to help them
along the way. Do I long for the day when I can walk across my floor without
stepping on a toy or squishing cereal in to the carpet? Yes I do! But for now I am going to be happy in knowing that my two
sometimes crazy little ones make my life so complete and what will I do with
all of my spare time when they are too old to make those messes?
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