I loved this post by Crystal over at BiblicalWomanhood-- It encouraged me more than I expected, and the comments have lots of sound advice. Like this "If a mom in your season of life looks like she has it all together all the time, something is suffering drastically somewhere." Only I would say "someone," not something!
For some reason I always thought I could do it all, even when I couldn't. I now know that I didn't then, and I won't now. I have those weeks where my kids suffer because I said yes too many times, and we just needed to stay home. And then those weeks where it's not a choice, but a necessity-- and God blesses the busy-ness. (Did you know that business is how I think I should spell busyness? Interesting.)
It is hard! For example, this spring after a birthday party, my immediate family came over to watch a movie, and then more people came. This was all spontaneous, so of course my house was less than "presentable," but I also did not have enough clean glasses for everyone! Of all the things to obsess over, I did. Let's just say it was a learning experience. Now, we have paper cups for those occasions!
And let's just all agree here-- Nobody cleans under their couchs. That way we all have the mess of random cereal and popcorn, and no one has to be embarassed about it!!! Okay? Ok!!!
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I'm all over the whole no cleaning under couches rule!
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