...I'm posting these to show I'm very much a NORMAL mom. While I may have some supermom moments, which I post about, the true behind-the-scenes every day life is not usually posted about. In some ways I'm "so much cooler on-line" (
that's for Alex and his country music kick!). I've never been one to hide anything about me though, so here's what it usually looks like at our house (wish I could say this was not the typical status, but sadly that's one of the more challenging parts of motherhood - trying to keep the house clean. It's amazing how quickly things can get out of hand. I promise it was clean 24 hours before I took these pictures).
Readers, don't put me on a pedestal and don't make me post more pictures like these (keep checking in!). As you can see by the last few pictures, Owen's latest thing is coloring on things. The one on the pillow is a permanent marker... ARGH! Anyway, I better go clean something.
(See what you have to look forward to Aud and Al??)
16 comments:
I know exactly how you feel!! It helps knowing that our moms went through the same thing and they survived so somehow we will do the same thing....survive :)
You really are super mom!! Being brave enough to post pictures like this! I applaud you! My house looks sure looks like this- everyone's house looks like this. But people sure to try to sugar coat their lives online. I even clean my house and it still looks like this. Sigh- that is what it is really like to be a mother!
I really wonder if there are moms that struggle with keeping a house clean. I feel like I can never have the entire house clean at once. And sometimes the entire house is a mess. Glad to know I'm not the only one. Well I'm sure I wasn't the only one, but not many have admitted to having a messy house.
Yes, that does make me feel better. But it also makes you even more awesome for posting it!
Even though it's hard to let the house be dirty sometimes, I try to tell myself that years down the road my kids won't remember if our house was spotless or not, but they will remember the time I spent with them. Your boys will appreciate all the time you didn't spend on cleaning but with them : )
We have a little artist as well! He has already been through 3 sets of sheets and we have a nice bold sharpie smiley face on our wall! These stages pass right?
I'll try not to remind myself that you have 4 kids while I only have two..and just say THANKYOU! i knew something had to give of you to do all that cool stuff with you kids! glad to see you are human!
You have 4 kiddos and I have a cat, yet our houses look remarkably similar. Actually, my kitchen looks way worse. I think you are totally living up to the super mom title!
Annie, I love that you were brave enough to show us all how alike we are. My house seems to always look like this and often times 100x worse!
Yeah! How excited I am to have lots of kiddos to destroy the house everyday!! haha well at least I have a little bit longer to enjoy a clean house while Dallin is still too small to get into anything...
Thank goodness for scotchgard, washable latex paint and Mr Clean Majic Eraser.
24 hours? I bet they could do it in 15 minutes! Mine could and I only had 2.
This is just like my house, especially Monday morning - something about the weekend! Thankfully (and he's said it so many times I now have it memorized), Nate has quoted this poem for me for 9 years: "Cooking and cleaning can wait 'til tomorrow, for children grow up, much to our sorrow. So go to bed cobwebs and dust go to sleep, I'm rocking my baby, and babies don't keep."
Strangely, I feel better. :)
you crack me up!! :) Still the same, sweet, humble, gentle Annie I've always known! I still think you're super mom!!!
Oh good-- I'm not alone!
I love that you are so real and so honest. Sometimes on blogs we can get too positive and not authentic enough in our experience as mothers. You go girl!
Love it!
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