Sometimes I feel like a terrible housekeeper/meal maker/etc. I feel like all of the other moms out there have it all together whether they are working moms, like me, or not. Everything is perfect all the time...and I mean EVERYTHING. I ran across a blog the other day discussing this exact thing and a couple of people left comments that I really liked a lot. I am just posting them here to remind me that a clean house, organic food, working out 200 times a day, and being Miss Crafty Pants isn't what is important and I need to get over it!!
They probably don't have it as together as they make it seem anyway, right?!
Today I left some dishes dirty,
The bed got made around 3:30.
The diapers soaked a little longer,
The odor grew a little stronger.
The crumbs I spilled the day before
Are staring at me from the floor.
The fingerprints there on the wall
Will likely be there still next fall.
The dirty streaks on those windowpanes
Will still be there next time it rains.
Shame on you, you sit and say,
Just what did you do today?
I held a baby till she slept,
I held a toddler while he wept.
I played a game of hide and seek,
I squeezed a toy so it would squeak.
I pulled a wagon, sang a song,
Taught a child right from wrong.
What did I do this whole day through?
Not much that shows, I guess that's s true.
Unless you think that what I've done,
Might be important to someone
With deep green eyes and soft brown hair,
If that is true... I've done my share.
And...
"Don't compare your everyday to everyone else's highlight reel!"
