This is Our Life - week 4 {Terre Haute lifestyle photographer}
This is week 4 for the This is Our Life project and the theme is "A Different Perspective."
I don't know how your house is, but mine is loud and crazy and always a little messy. Of course I clean it, but it doesn't stay that way long. And my poor husband gets home past my "I give up" time almost every night, so sometimes I'll text him a picture of it clean so he can enjoy it (and see that it is actually clean at some point during the day!)
There's the normal laundry and dishes, and other cleaning, and other than actually putting the laundry away those things get done every day, but the thing that really kills me is the toys. The older kids are not too bad about leaving them out - at least they'll pick them up if I remind them - but with a toddler around, nothing stays put away for long. All 3 boys are sharing a room right now, and it's upstairs, so it doesn't really work to just keep the toys in the bedroom. They're in the living room, and the dining room, and even the kitchen. The Little People, the Hot Wheels, the books, the dolls, the already-neglected Christmas gifts, and the Legos...everywhere there are Legos! Under the couch, on the table, in boxes and bags, on the shelf, and of course on the floor. I can't tell you how many times I step on a Lego during the day. And how many times I have to fish them out of Jonah's mouth.
It's easy to get overwhelmed by the clutter, and the never ending to-do list, but on the days I choose to look at it with a different perspective, the days I remember that I'm so so lucky to have this life and this family, mess and all, it's easier to overlook the stuff and appreciate the reason for all the stuff...4 happy, crazy, funny, amazing kids. I am so blessed.
I don't know how your house is, but mine is loud and crazy and always a little messy. Of course I clean it, but it doesn't stay that way long. And my poor husband gets home past my "I give up" time almost every night, so sometimes I'll text him a picture of it clean so he can enjoy it (and see that it is actually clean at some point during the day!)
There's the normal laundry and dishes, and other cleaning, and other than actually putting the laundry away those things get done every day, but the thing that really kills me is the toys. The older kids are not too bad about leaving them out - at least they'll pick them up if I remind them - but with a toddler around, nothing stays put away for long. All 3 boys are sharing a room right now, and it's upstairs, so it doesn't really work to just keep the toys in the bedroom. They're in the living room, and the dining room, and even the kitchen. The Little People, the Hot Wheels, the books, the dolls, the already-neglected Christmas gifts, and the Legos...everywhere there are Legos! Under the couch, on the table, in boxes and bags, on the shelf, and of course on the floor. I can't tell you how many times I step on a Lego during the day. And how many times I have to fish them out of Jonah's mouth.
It's easy to get overwhelmed by the clutter, and the never ending to-do list, but on the days I choose to look at it with a different perspective, the days I remember that I'm so so lucky to have this life and this family, mess and all, it's easier to overlook the stuff and appreciate the reason for all the stuff...4 happy, crazy, funny, amazing kids. I am so blessed.
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