I decided to join the MOPs group on base this year. This will be the first time ever being part of MOPs, and I am pretty excited. Their theme this year is A Beautiful Mess. They couldn't have picked a more appropriate theme to explain the life of Mothers of Preschoolers, so I am completely stealing the idea to write about it.
Life is messy. With or without kids, life is messy. However, the mess with kids is much more fun and more beautiful.
Being a mom is one of the best things that has ever happened to me, definitely 4 of the greatest blessings in my life. Some days are harder than others, and there are some that are definitely messier than others. But that is really the fun of it!
Having 4 kids, my house is rarely ever spotless, if ever. There are things everywhere. Toys, clothes, shoes... if it isn't one thing, it is another. I am constantly stepping on, in or over things that belong to everyone other than myself. The bath tub regularly has dirt rings from bath time and I can't even remember the last day that I wasn't having to change a diaper.
Laundry is almost never completely done either. I can get most of it washed and dried, though getting it put away is something completely different. Piles of clean clothes sit around, making it look a lot more messy than it truly is. But hey, it's clean. It is truly the never ending battle in the family of 6.
My house is messy... because our lives are messy. We are busy and the happiness of my kids is much more important than the cleanliness of my house. I try to clean up one good time each day and have the kids help with some things when they get home from school. But past that, life it too short to spend most of it cleaning... and life messes are no different.
Life is a beautiful mess, one that I am blessed to share with 5 pretty amazing guys! And even though some of the messes along the way were bigger and/or worse than others, I will forever be grateful for them all! Because life today was worth every mess we've been in along the way!
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