Saturday, December 12, 2009

Today I am Frustrated!

It seems that every day I clean up the kitchen and every day it is messy again. I swear that I go to bed with a fairly clean kitchen and wake up to a disaster. Maybe late at night I am so tired that the kitchen seems cleaner than it is or is it that my children wake up and create the mess before I manage to get to it? Either way I am frustrated. Lila is now tall enough and into the phase of grabbing things off the counter, table, you name it she can reach it but she cannot see it and so it could be any thing, today I lost my temper with her. She first grabbed a plate with a piece of chocolate cake on it and had chocolate icing every where, then she grabbed a stack of kids dishes that I was trying to load into the dishwasher and bits and pieces of last nights dinner went all over my floor. She dumps her breakfast, lunch and dinner all onto her and the floor every day. Jackson had cereal and milk all over the table, Walker, well today he has been fine, but most days it is not the case.
I long for a clean house....I know that this comes with the territory of being a stay at home mom and having my kids home during the day and not in day care, but I am frustrated. I love being a mom, I just hate the mess that comes with it. I should look at it positively, as in having messes means that I have children in my home to make messes and most days this is how I feel but today I am struggling with that thought. I love my children more than any thing on this earth and one day I am sure that these messes will be missed......... well maybe, but today I am frustrated.

3 comments:

Valerie said...

It's hard, I know. But someday you will have a clean house and no one to mess it up and you won't know what to do with yourself. So for now...just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming...

And I love ya!

Just Rhonda said...

That was me a couple days ago.... it's so ANNOYING.

Lynette said...

I am totally with you! I try to be laid back about the toy mess but I HATE the kitchen being a disaster in the morning!! It is always clean at night and when I come in, in the morning, wrapers, dishes all over the counters. The garbage and sinks are right there!! Ahhh! Sorry for venting, I just totally understand. You are amazing Amanda. Housekeeper and especially Mom. One day it will all just figure itself out. Loves:)