To the mom of the unclean house

Me personally, I love to have a spotless house, it is something that I would put great pride in, if it was not for my children. After work, I’m quite exhausted and I could put all my time into cleaning the house, but honestly I would not have much time for anything else. So what I have learned to do instead is to spend time with my children. After baths that really take me about a couple of hours. I have been doing prayer and reading time with them. This pretty much takes up the rest of my night, but it is so worth it.

I have noticed that the boys know and the baby actually does too., when it is prayer time they will come and raise their hands and talk to God. To me, this is the best gift that I can give them. I could have all the clothes off the floor, the kitchen and bathrooms spotless and a perfect home, but honestly if I had all of that my kids would not know how to pray, they would not have the quality time with reading with mom and jumping in her lap, while she is praying and fighting about who get the best seat on my big lap to them, but really it is not that big at all for all three children.

What I value the most is this time with them, there will be a time when the house is clean and spotless, but the laughter of small children will be gone and the crying of who plays with this toy will be gone. I have learned to cherish these moments in laughter, because they are only small for a bit, they won’t always want to crawl into bed with mommy and sleep by my bed because the dark is scary.

For the mom’s with the messy house it is ok. God gave us the most important role and that is our children.