My kids’ bedrooms are in perfect condition right now. I cleaned them from head to toe today. Reorganized closets, dusted, linens washed and every toy in its place. At the moment, the bedrooms could be featured on Pinterest.
I have clean bedrooms and a clean conscience.
Now after reading this, you may think this is a blog about how I am supermom and how with a little time and dedication, you can make your kids’ rooms Pinterest worthy, too. So let me finish, my kids’ rooms are clean, but most of the other rooms in the house are a mess.
You see, as I sat on the floor of my daughter’s room sorting through piles of Barbie shoes, art projects, board game pieces and a mountain of stuffed animals, the dishes went unwashed, the laundry was dirty in the hampers, and I didn’t vacuum. That extra drawer in the kitchen? Please don’t open it and see the junk piled up. The linen closet? It’s a mess, a toppling tower of towels and fitted sheets balled up, not folded nicely. This is because cleaning my kids’ bedrooms came at the expense of most other household chores today.
The dishes and laundry will be there tomorrow, and the linen closet can be organized another day. Just like the messy, disorganized chaos of my daughter’s bedroom stared at me for weeks before I was able to get to it, there will be a day for organizing the linen closet. Today was not that day, but everything will have its turn.
Finding a balance is the key, giving everything a turn.
Often, we think we need to do everything, or feel bad if we don’t do everything. I am guilty of that myself. But we need to accept not getting everything done in a day. Sometimes we need to trade doing the laundry with organizing the kids’ closets and that is okay. We are still supermoms for whatever we were able to get done today. Maybe it was cleaning the bedrooms, or dishes, or laundry, or maybe it was finding the time to read to our kids, or just sit and hold them. Whatever it was, know that it was enough. I have a messy living room, but I also have clean bedrooms and a clean conscience. I don’t feel bad that I wasn’t able to organize the entire house in a day.
So, how did I find the time to clean my kids’ bedrooms today from top to bottom? It’s easy, I skipped everything else. This is your reminder that you can’t always do it all in one day, and you certainly don’t have to do it all in one day.
