Friday, January 13, 2012

to all moms..

Have you ever heard the saying "cleanliness is next to godliness"? well if that's true me and Satan must be buddies. hahaha you have to admit that's pretty funny! but seriously i feel like i get up every morning send my kids off to school then clean ALL day while there gone then we do home work when they get home, then make and eat dinner then hang out as a family then bed time. and I'll look at my house and think what did i even clean today??? then i start over the next day with the same schedule only to find out i can never get on top of it!! AND there is no such thing as being caught up on laundry! By the time i do a load of colors then whites, greys and blacks i am starting all over again with the colors! there is always going to be laundry to do! my problem is balance! I'm either trying really hard to accomplish it all, but then I'm ignoring my kids and yelling at them for who knows what and driving myself crazy going behind them literally and cleaning up behind them or literally taking the toy out of their hand to put away just to make sure everything is clean and put away! haha or my house is in complete chaos! like i said i lack balance. i haven't quite figured it out yet. anyone else like me?  props to all you moms who got it down. you can tell by this post I'm having "one of those days." :)

5 comments:

Trask Tribe said...

:) That's really all I have to say.

Jill Duncan said...

Don't stress! I'm pretty sure every mom feels that way. You are a great mom and a great wife! No one expects your house to be spotless when you have 4 kids!

Anonymous said...

you are AWESOME cousin. you really are.

traskrocks said...

“I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.
I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.
I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.
I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden.
I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.
I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived.”
― Marjorie Pay Hinckley

I LOVE THIS QUOTE.
I once had a empty nester tell me that she wishes that she had cleaned a little less when her children were small.

I can see how that happens. I have a schedule that I clean on. MWF~ I clean the Living room and kitchen. Tuesday and Thursday I clean bedrooms and bathrooms. I do laundry three days a week.
Other than that I don't stress.
I try to make beds daily and if I don't get to it, then oh well.

You are doing great!

Kaysie said...

So true. I was just thinking the other day how I hate on-going tasks. Everything can never be clean at once! It is frustrating. And it is a hard balance. Clean house or happy kids. Dishes done or time with hubby. Clean bathrooms or finish my book. Laundry laundry laundry or rock my sweet baby to sleep. Vacuum or shower. Hahaha. Good luck!