Monday, July 16, 2007

Priorities

Sunday afternoon we returned home from church later than normal. The Baptists don't feel that they have had a real revival unless we suffer past our normal lunchtime:) So I made lunch for the girls and tried to decide what project to tackle first. I had started painting my bathroom Saturday afternoon and that needed to be finished. There were at least three giant loads of laundry to be done. None of our beds had been made. The flower beds needed to be watered and weeded. Faced with all these possibilities, I said "Screw it. Let's go to the pool."



This is how my bathroom looked on Sunday night:






This is how my kids looked Sunday night:







This is the kind of mom I want to be. A mom who will choose happy kids over a clean house 97% of the time.
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