{"id":3652,"date":"2014-02-26T17:35:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T17:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.wordpress.com\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2014-02-26T17:35:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T17:35:44","slug":"my-home-isnt-perfectly-spotless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/26\/my-home-isnt-perfectly-spotless\/","title":{"rendered":"My home isn’t perfectly spotless."},"content":{"rendered":"

I read this article with interest, because I admit, our home is rarely ever that<\/em><\/strong> ‘perfectly spotless’ home.<\/p>\n

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My House Is Messy — and I Don’t Care<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nhttp:\/\/m.huffpost.com\/us\/entry\/4853787<\/a><\/p>\n

Sometimes I get frustrated, and I try to figure out WHY we can’t seem to have a home that looks as lovely as other people’s homes…<\/p>\n

Then I look around at WHAT the mess is and it’s always due to projects and other worthwhile things.<\/p>\n

Always.<\/p>\n

Whether Elsa’s in the process of baking & decorating her cupcakes, Shaylah has her felting supplies out, Julia or I are cutting fabrics, or Alesia has her shoes in the way by the door between coming home from work and heading out to see her man.<\/p>\n

My pretty antique tea cart holds my husbands paperwork and our bills.<\/p>\n

The nice bookshelf near our dinning table is always stuffed to overflowing with our school books, writings, and art work.<\/p>\n

My kitchen counter is cluttered with jars of apple cider vinegar in the making, iodine and other animal first aid supplies, and always.always.always dishes. LOTS of dishes because 8 people live here and we cook AND eat here 3 times every day.<\/p>\n

We LIVE in our home, almost every hour of every day.<\/p>\n

One day, it won’t be this way. There will no longer be the mess of meals made for eight. I get a small ‘taste’ of this already now that our eldest son works away from home 2 weeks at a time and our eldest daughter spends about every second weekend at her boyfriend’s family home.<\/p>\n

These kids grow up fast. I’ve always had a deep understanding of that fact. Yet they still grow up even faster than I could have imagined.<\/p>\n

Just the other day, I gave birth to twins. Those bitty babies are 14 now, and in grade 10! Just the other day we had five children 8 & under. The last 3 were born within 22 months.
\nThose five kids are 22, 20, 16, 14 & 14 now and we’ve added a an extra, a 15 year old into the mix, just for fun!<\/p>\n

Just the other day I would take my five little children for walks to the library, holding my three little ones hands with my two hands. Always a hand short, but it never mattered. I have two hands, but 10 fingers. Often Shaylah & Julia would each hold tight to a finger on one hand, and Elsa would hold onto my other hand. All while Alesia and Joshua would walk alongside, or ride their bikes.<\/p>\n

Just the other day, we taught those big kids to ride those bikes! Those two big kids are REALLY big kids now, and not really kids at all any more.<\/p>\n

They will always be my ‘babies’.<\/p>\n

So yes, there is mess.
\nEvery.Day.<\/p>\n

But I look at the mess, ponder it, and there’s none of the mess I could or would choose to loose.<\/p>\n

One day the mess will be gone and I’ll miss it soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read this article with interest, because I admit, our home is rarely ever that ‘perfectly spotless’ home. My House Is Messy — and I Don’t Care http:\/\/m.huffpost.com\/us\/entry\/4853787 Sometimes I get frustrated, and I try to figure out WHY we can’t seem to have a home that looks as lovely as other people’s homes… Then […]<\/p>\n

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