Excuse my Messy house, we are busy making Memories!!!
I like a clean house. However if you came to my house today...you would say...YA RIGHT!! Today there is toys, paper snippets and crumbs all over the floor, my desk looks like my printer threw up on it, and the homeschool room, had an Atomic Bomb dropped in it...crayon casualties are every where. My bathrooms all need attention, my kitchen looks like my cupboards had a food war, Granted I had a medical procedure done yesterday that rendered me to my bed for the day, and children have ransacked my house in the mean time. I do truly LOVE a clean house....I love to clean my house....what I don't love is cleaning it every day....ok, so I try to keep up on the basics from day to day..ie: Dishes, and table, and counters and keeping my living room is some sort of order....then morning happens...and chaos ensues.
One draw back to homeschooling is having mess creating children 24/7 at home, they are masters at creating complete disorder in a organizers home....I will be honest here....I have regular melt downs about my house with my kids...Just ask them...they will tell you my Line..." All I ever do is clean"...
So I might say that, but in reality, I do so much more, but in that moment, of cleaning up the 10,000 snippets of paper creations, for the 30th time this week, I am so tired of cleaning. It could be related to my slow recovery from pregnancy, in that My pelvis and muscles surrounding it still get tired so fast, so bending down 200 times a day to pick something up that someone left on the floor. It gets so old so fast. I am constantly having to tell them to pick up after themselves. Cue: NAGGY SAGGY MOMMA.
It is now that I truly understand my mothers frustration with me, when I was little. She once told me, in one of her dithers while cleaning( apple didn't fall to far) that She hoped I would have a daughter just like me...I am sure that she certainly is having good laugh in heaven, because I have 4 daughters just like me....OIY!!
I am always so amazed just how fast my house can go from being perfectly clean to ABSOLUTE CHAOS!! The other day, I cleaned my house from top to bottom...it took me 2 days...But I did it. I was having a moment....Whoop whoop!! "I am the QUEEN of clean". Not 10 mins later, my homeschool room started belching out counting bears, and blocks, and crayons, and papers and spelling work books, and worksheet binders, and bingo dabbers. and "what on earth is your lolly pop doing stuck to my couch. Hubby cooked us dinner..awesome!! But not so awesome...in all his wonderful culinary experiments, he lives a torrent of his creativity all over. God bless him, but I don't bless the mess.....Hey...A new sign for my house....BLESS THIS MESS!!!
In all this Chaos, and confusion, there is a message for me, and all those other mommies out there that might read this. Right now, our lives are thick with responsibility here in our own homes, with our own children. The mess and the Chaos, is part of the journey. My house is a mess, because I have 4 beautiful little girls, who are so creative it is mind blowing. They are by all means doing what kids do...make a mess. In their mess making they are learning, playing, and living lives, and discovering who they are. They are all able to use there minds to explore, they can use the tools at hand to destroy...I mean create masterpieces of their own design. It can be beyond frustrating for me, who likes my order and cleanliness for my own sanity. God reminded me today, as I look at the chaos around me today, my girls are in the middle of making memories that will last a life time. A clean house means a peaceful mind, for a little while. But isn't it funny that a peaceful clean house can lead to wanting to create my own mess...I get my house clean and I want to start creating something, that creates my own mess...cooking, scrapbooking...etc. I too, am a contributing mess maker. I was thinking about all this mess, and really I am not a hoarder or anything, I love to be organized, I hate clutter, yet it dwells with me. I like to have a plan. Yes, I want a clean house, because it makes me feel more at peace with myself.
However I am on the job, the most important job I will ever have, and it is one that will last my life time. I am mom. So a clean house is good, but so is a messy house. My girls in time will learn to clean up, and learn that by cleaning up their own mess, they let others have some breathing room too. It takes time. Homeschooling takes 2-3 hours of book work, but the learning never stops. The creating never stops, I don't want them to stop making a mess. I love seeing the pride in my daughters face when she made her own doll clothes, baskets, and mosaic pictures, bats for halloween, and snow flakes for winter. She has been grounded from scissors for the next week, because she cut up doll clothes that were made for my mom when she was a little girl, and tried to hide it under the coffee table. BUSTED!! The cleaning and laundry will never end, but their childhood will. These "little" years are flying by. I don't want to miss them because I obsessed about keeping my house clean. Yes, I still need to clean, because I can't help it, and I do like my moments of sanity however brief they are. Today A not clean house....tomorrow it will be a clean house...maybe.
Blessing
Deeds K
One draw back to homeschooling is having mess creating children 24/7 at home, they are masters at creating complete disorder in a organizers home....I will be honest here....I have regular melt downs about my house with my kids...Just ask them...they will tell you my Line..." All I ever do is clean"...
So I might say that, but in reality, I do so much more, but in that moment, of cleaning up the 10,000 snippets of paper creations, for the 30th time this week, I am so tired of cleaning. It could be related to my slow recovery from pregnancy, in that My pelvis and muscles surrounding it still get tired so fast, so bending down 200 times a day to pick something up that someone left on the floor. It gets so old so fast. I am constantly having to tell them to pick up after themselves. Cue: NAGGY SAGGY MOMMA.
It is now that I truly understand my mothers frustration with me, when I was little. She once told me, in one of her dithers while cleaning( apple didn't fall to far) that She hoped I would have a daughter just like me...I am sure that she certainly is having good laugh in heaven, because I have 4 daughters just like me....OIY!!I am always so amazed just how fast my house can go from being perfectly clean to ABSOLUTE CHAOS!! The other day, I cleaned my house from top to bottom...it took me 2 days...But I did it. I was having a moment....Whoop whoop!! "I am the QUEEN of clean". Not 10 mins later, my homeschool room started belching out counting bears, and blocks, and crayons, and papers and spelling work books, and worksheet binders, and bingo dabbers. and "what on earth is your lolly pop doing stuck to my couch. Hubby cooked us dinner..awesome!! But not so awesome...in all his wonderful culinary experiments, he lives a torrent of his creativity all over. God bless him, but I don't bless the mess.....Hey...A new sign for my house....BLESS THIS MESS!!!
In all this Chaos, and confusion, there is a message for me, and all those other mommies out there that might read this. Right now, our lives are thick with responsibility here in our own homes, with our own children. The mess and the Chaos, is part of the journey. My house is a mess, because I have 4 beautiful little girls, who are so creative it is mind blowing. They are by all means doing what kids do...make a mess. In their mess making they are learning, playing, and living lives, and discovering who they are. They are all able to use there minds to explore, they can use the tools at hand to destroy...I mean create masterpieces of their own design. It can be beyond frustrating for me, who likes my order and cleanliness for my own sanity. God reminded me today, as I look at the chaos around me today, my girls are in the middle of making memories that will last a life time. A clean house means a peaceful mind, for a little while. But isn't it funny that a peaceful clean house can lead to wanting to create my own mess...I get my house clean and I want to start creating something, that creates my own mess...cooking, scrapbooking...etc. I too, am a contributing mess maker. I was thinking about all this mess, and really I am not a hoarder or anything, I love to be organized, I hate clutter, yet it dwells with me. I like to have a plan. Yes, I want a clean house, because it makes me feel more at peace with myself.However I am on the job, the most important job I will ever have, and it is one that will last my life time. I am mom. So a clean house is good, but so is a messy house. My girls in time will learn to clean up, and learn that by cleaning up their own mess, they let others have some breathing room too. It takes time. Homeschooling takes 2-3 hours of book work, but the learning never stops. The creating never stops, I don't want them to stop making a mess. I love seeing the pride in my daughters face when she made her own doll clothes, baskets, and mosaic pictures, bats for halloween, and snow flakes for winter. She has been grounded from scissors for the next week, because she cut up doll clothes that were made for my mom when she was a little girl, and tried to hide it under the coffee table. BUSTED!! The cleaning and laundry will never end, but their childhood will. These "little" years are flying by. I don't want to miss them because I obsessed about keeping my house clean. Yes, I still need to clean, because I can't help it, and I do like my moments of sanity however brief they are. Today A not clean house....tomorrow it will be a clean house...maybe.Blessing
Deeds K
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