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As I sit here, sipping coffee as the rain comes down... again (HELLO, GOD! This is North Carolina, not Ohio... please move the clouds somewhere else!), I have a great view. Why? Because I'm sitting on my screen porch looking out at all the green -- and the raindrops.
Home sweet home! Even when it rains.
If I were in the house, ohhhhh, that would be an entirely different scene. The laundry's piled up on the couch. Why do I never seem to get it folded before everything is wrinkled? There are Ellie toys all over the place (thanks in part to her friend who gave her so many hand-me-downs last week that Ellie had her own personal Christmas in May!). There are dishes in the sink. The swim bag sits on the floor in the kitchen, waiting for someone less lazy than me to put it away in the hall closet (it was wet yesterday, which is why I didn't put it away when we got home from the pool)....
The swim bag... Trust me, the rest looks much worse! :(
I'm not the world's best housekeeping wife to begin with. And this weekend, every chance I got, I opted instead for family time over chores. Maybe, perhaps, there's some balance in there that I missed, but I think I'm okay with that. I'm glad we watched movies together, went to the mall together, went to church together, served our children's ministry together, went to the pool together, and played wii... yep! together!
Some of Ellie's toys... the water bottle IS for exercising at least :)
Nathan leaves for college in two short years. Ben will follow soon after that. Ellie, well, she's here for a while yet.... but, that time, too, will pass quickly. If it comes down to housecleaning or family time, I'm choosing family!
So, friends, how do you manage your time?
For those of you who are beyond me, how did you strike a balance?
Is it even possible to have both???? Clean house AND family time? (NOTE: My kids have chores each day, but we still can't keep up all the time.)
God bless!
1 comment:
Most of the time, no, it isn't possible unless you run yourself completely ragged. I remember a houseguest of ours years ago, sitting at the breakfast table, watching the bedlam of 4 kids getting ready for school. "Is it always like this?" he asked. Yep. Crazy and cluttered. Now my kids are gone (mostly) and I have plenty of time to clean and straighten. You get the point.
On those summer days when I just had to make some progress in the house, I rallied the troops to their chores (and mine) ... THEN we could go to the pool. Work, then play, is a good lesson, too.
Enjoy these years, Karen ... I know you are!
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