My house is a disaster.
The entire thing. I spend way too much time on the Internet lately reading debates about whether there are actually pros to moms staying home with their children instead of going to work and "making a difference in society."
I recognized the irony of my situation today. I am a stay at home mom and a strong advocate of it. How can you better influence society then to raise children that will be good members of it? However, lately (and maybe it is partly due to being pregnant and not just laziness) I have been home with my kids but not interacting with them. While this has helped their creativity, I certainly don't feel like I am doing my part (although I still greatly appreciate Jared's gratefulness for keeping our home running. I laughed because it has been a disaster for a while but his point was that we all end up dressed and fed to our various responsibilities, we have clean clothes, albeit ones you have to look for, and food to eat.)
I have also noticed the messier my house gets, the more uncreative and comatose I would like my kids to be. Grace has grandiose ideas and is recently figuring out how to implement them in our house. It's great for her to be creative but it is just increasing the clutter in our house, I know it's hard to believe it could actually get worse. I feel bad for telling her "No, you can't keep the extra sink you made for the bathroom. I know you want to have two in it but that bowl of water is just going to get spilled and I am going to have to clean it up." It's the same with her wanting to make fruit salad cups for the whole family by herself. I don't want them to do anything that is going to make more of a mess then I already have to clean up.
What I really want is for the kids to just spend all of their time outside playing with just nature. I don't have to clean up after that. Yesterday they did spend time outside but it still made a mess because we had to get out all of the snow stuff again, and of course it all ended up on the floor by the front door after they came in.
Stupid weather.
2 comments:
That's too funny. Dowlin is always wanting to do "science experiments" and instead of encouraging his love of science I stiffle it because it is just another mess. Hey...I never claimed to be a good mom.
Sometimes I wonder if there are moms out there that actually do let their kids do the "experiments." I think the ones that claim they do actually just weren't paying attention to their kids and "caught" them doing it. Perhaps the only difference is they see it as an encouraging moment and I (we?) see it as the child's inability to see how big of a MESS they are making.
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