Yes, I realize this sounds pretty trivial, but there is really more to it than that. I have spent many years off and on as a stay at home Mom. I loved my time with my kids, and we always made the best of it. I have also spent plenty of time working full time, and now work part time. I have lived most of my adult life as either a single parent, or a married parent with an absent partner. And of course, I have five amazing kids.
My kids are messy. They just are. I take a lot of the blame for that though. I am in NO WAY a clean freak. I honestly don't mind the clutter that makes up my house. Some days I don't really even notice it. So I choose to focus my time and energy on things other than cleaning all night long.
Of course when I do make sure the house is completely picked up, I can turn around ten minutes later and it look like someone took an industrial fan to the inside. My house is clean, just cluttered (I have little tolerance for actual dirt and grime). But most days it looks very lived in.
Over the years I have just learned to not stress over it. I could probably enforce stricter time management issues upon myself, and instead of chatting with my older kids at night, or reading extra bedtime stories to the little ones, or even taking a nice relaxing bubble bath - I could be cleaning. But I choose not to. I choose to live and be happy, and let the little things slide.
So take us or leave us, I say - but if you stop by my house one day - watch out for the truck that may sit by the front door.
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