As most of you know, I don't work during the summers which I love! Recently, I have discovered that I am not a good stay at home mom. I don't think of great projects or fun things to do with Andrew each day, I don't have dinner waiting on the table when Jason gets home, some days I don't wash my hair, I never put on make up- unless I'm seeing friends or going to church, and my house never stays clean for more than an hour. I'll even admit that somedays Andrew and I stay in our pajamas until after naptime and somedays we sleep through breakfast. Why am I admiting this dark little secret? Because, I would like to do a better job when we are at home. Now, let me just say, Andrew has learned a lot over the last month that I've been home with him- and not just good summer sleeping habits! He can say tons of words, he helps do the laundry and vacuum, he picks up his toys (sometimes) and makes lots of new animal sounds! So, I'm not totally failing as a mom, just as a housekeeper!
My biggest question is how do you keep your house in order? I'm not asking for perfection, but I just feel like my house never looks quite presentable for the outside world. I clean it a lot, but it never stays that way for long and I just can't figure out what is causing it. Andrew only creates so much mess and the dog and cats, although they shed, they don't drag anything out. The biggest mess is my kitchen. I don't understand how a freshly mopped floor can go from sparkling to sticky in a matter of minutes, but this is what happens at our house. I don't leave dirty dishes in the sink overnight, we always run the dishwasher before we go to bed, but yet it's still a dirty kitchen. It's little things too, like a load of laundry that didn't get folded so a cat decided to sleep in it and then it needs to be washed again or Andrew decided that it would be really fun to climb up on the bed and throw the laundry all over the bedroom. Then, it's all the little things that he's not supposed to have out, but he somehow manages to get and I just set them on the cabinet or somewhere up high to be put up later, but later never comes and I've got random items throughout my house. Or, like right now Andrew just emptied the upstairs bathroom cabinet and unfolded about 10 towels and threw them all over the floor.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how you keep your house together and does anyone feel the same way that I do? Also, any fun ideas that you do with your kids? We pretty much stay inside all day because it's so hot and do our outside playing after dinner. I'm hoping to get better at this staying home thing, because I'll be home this fall and winter as well- and I'll have two kids to clean up after!
Mere and Don sent Andrew a new adarondack (sp?) chair. He really likes it! He especially enjoyed helping his Daddy build it.
He got to use the screwdriver to make sure all the screws were in tight!
We went to OKC a couple of weekends ago and he got to see his great grandparents.
He also visited his Nana for her birthday!
One of his new favorite things is to lay in the bed and pretend to go "night night". He will go in the bedrooms and say "bed, night night" and he wants you to put him in the bed. He will get the remote and say "T" for TV and he wants you to turn it on. He doesn't watch TV, but he thinks you have to have it on in bed. I wonder where he learned that??
