Since Mason became mobile, I find that old saying that " cleaning up while the kids are awake is like raking during a windstorm " to be very true. Mackenzie was a very easy toddler who was cleaning up after herself by 18 months. Mason has much better things to do and I know that Mackenzie's kind of toddler was the exception. Mason is more like the rule. None the less, it's hard for a personality like mine to get accustomed to not having a perfectly picked up house all of the time. I seemed to fight it and would become really frustrated when I ' Just cleaned up this mess!" . Finally, I decided to stop fighting against nature and am learning to enjoy life as it is right now. One day, I will have my clean house back. And I will probably miss stepping on toy dinosaurs or tubes of lip gloss on my way across the floor. For now, I will try to consider the things I previously thought of as " messes" as signs of life....And our house is FULL of life! Just as it should be.
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Mackenzie is saving these bubble gum wrappers
so she can use them to wrap presents at Christmas. |
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