MOGirl07 - 2019-02-02 9:43 PM
RomanK - 2019-02-02 9:29 PM
MOGirl07 - 2019-01-30 7:45 AM My house is NEVER clean anymore. It drives me bananas but I'm with you, I'd rather be playing with my kids after work than cleaning.
I totally agree with you here,
According to Greg McKeown the author of the book called
Essentialism the majority of things in life are completely UNIMPORTANT and only a few things truly matter.
It is my strong opinion that playing with kids, investing time in their development, and understanding that raising champion kids is a hard hard work that requires a lot of patience are those few things we need to be focusing on instead of being upset about how clean the house is for example.
Have you read the book
(here is a
short summary) or did you come to this conclusion by yourself?
I mean, not too many people agree
(but I am definitely with oyou here
) that a super clean house 24x7 is completely unimportant compared to spending quality time with kids.
I haven't heard of this book, I'll check it out!
It used to stress me out that the house is never perfect
(because I was quite the clean freak prior to having kids
) but now as long as a few things are kept up with daily
(laundry not piled up TOO much, dishesn, and my countertops tidy....those are my main things
) then I can pretty well roll with the rest.
I used to spend most of my time at home
(I work PT
) cleaning and playing catch up, and telling my kids 'just s minute' or 'hold on, I'm busy.' One day it just kind of hit me that I'll blink and they'll be grown. The mess will be there tomorrow, regardless, but they'll be one day bigger. And how must it feel to them to have mom constantly saying, essentially, 'I'm too busy bc cleanliness is way more important than you.' So I've tried to really change that. And they're happier, I'm happier, and I feel like I'm pouring more into their lives than I was say a year ago. It's worth leaving the mess for tomorrow, that's for sure! :
)
This made me smile thru some tears. If only more mommas felt this way. . .
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