Enjoying each day

Today, as I prepare for my time with my Mother who is arriving by train, I look at my house and am thankful I already cleaned up a bit. It still isn't perfect, but I am so blessed to have my three beautiful children who are playing in the living room together and enjoying their home stress free. Why do we get stressed about clutter? As long as we aren't hoarding or harming our children with dirty floors, toys can be strewn about the floor while they are awake and we can sit on their level and play with them instead of constantly cleaning. If I kept cleaning all day I could still find something new to clean or I could let my OCD behavior kick in and clean something more than once. Yikes.

I choose to enjoy my children today and I hope this is an everyday occurrence. I am not perfect, but the kids won't remember the mess. The kids will remember their childhood with their mom in it, involved and having fun with them. I realize that I am more positive in my communication with my three year old when I am just relaxing and playing with her.

Spencer

I feel bad that I let everyone still think that Spencer is only rolling. He started army crawling hmmmm... I think it was 3 weeks ago. He has his two front teeth and two bottoms. I have a strong feeling he will be wearing a spring green dress shirt w/ tie, vest, and dress pants for Easter this year! I'm so excited. I saw them on sale at Kmart and they have him written all over it. I am going to dress Audrey and Sydney alike instead of the twins because I think that is more fun to do. I try to coordinate colors that compliment with the twins (on special occasions). As Spencer is starting to get crawling down, Audrey is pulling herself up and standing up with only one hand holding on to a grown up. Spence doesn't let this get him down. He's our only boy, the youngest sibling and he has a great personality that I think will fit just perfect with his role. He will have another boy cousin coming along in June and then a boy second cousin in July! Exciting.