Gut Check
I was checking yesterday's email this morning and literally had my breath taken away with the opening line of one. It read "Keegan will turn one four weeks from today".
My response was cool and even keeled. "WHAT?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THAT CAN'T POSSIBLY BE RIGHT. Surely that is a mistake. JACOB!!!!!!!!!!!!".
So I had a diet Coke and calmed down a minute. But really- what happened? Where did my year with my baby go? Who is this mammoth child in my lap "helping" me type?
Just before the email incident I was just telling Jacob how we really needed to clean the house- thoroughly. How we needed to get this and this done, and how we can't forget to do this and that. But in a sudden flash of retrospect none of that really seems important. Tomorrow will it really matter if I swept today? No. The floor will be dirty again, this I can be assured of. Will it matter if I folded all the socks? Not at all. They will still be there in the same place tomorrow.
Good things in this life go by too quickly. Ice cream melts. Flowers wilt. Babies grow. Today's reality check is a good reminder that a life full of joy with my kids, and teaching my kids to be joyful, is infinitely better than spotless house. Better to be behind on housework than behind on quality kid time.
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And now you understand why I never clean as often or as hard as I "should", but good enough that cleaning is not the most prevalent childhood memory my kids will have :)
Enjoy your babies.
I am so glad Keegan is home, praying that Sophie and Keegan get well quickly, and agreeing with you that life is too short to spend it scrubbing the house. The mess will always be there but the kids or the moment won't.
I completely understand... Brianna will be one next Sunday. Doesn't seem like a year since they were born, does it? I still remember the picture of the two of them where Brianna was so much bigger than him it looked like she could eat him for a snack! Now they are about the same size! I hope everyone starts feeling better really soon!
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