It is officially summer and with summer comes a messy house. I usually spend a good deal of the summer bouncing between frustration and reminding myself that these precious days with my children are growing ever shorter. Both the little culprits of these messes were long gone making new messes in another part of the house. My first reaction was a sign and frustration at the number of play stations scattered throughout the house. But then I stopped and looked and a moment of clarity and pure joy come so I had to make sure to stop and capture it. How can you be mad at such a cute little blanket party going down? Seriously my heart smiles when I see this. Jordyn's animals are her friends and, let's be honest, Ethan has an equal amount of love for his stuffed animals, he just probably wont want want me mentioning it in a few years. For about a year Jordyn rotated her animals in a special bed next to hers at night so they didn't feel left out. Now, right next to this heartwarming party there were a bunch of deconstructed legos laying about. Those don't tend to conjure up feelings of warmth when I see those because I am constantly sucking pieces up in the vacuum, stepping on them and collecting them from every inch of the house. There is a balance to everything, isn't there? A ying to a yang. When the kids are grown and I am sitting in my spotless house, I know with surety that I will long for the mess of my home because it means that it is filled with the people I love.
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