I need to confess something.
I am domestically challenged. I don’t mean cooking, for I can cook and bake circles around many. I mean I stink at housework. Yes, though I’m sure in every other aspect of my life my husband believes that I am practically perfect in every way, I just can’t seem to get a handle on the housework thing. Housework seems to be a never-ending cycle of picking up after vertically challenged people that follow me around and take out precisely what I just put away.
Now I have heard the old adage that goes, “a perfectly kept house is a house where the children are bored”, or something to that effect. If that is indeed true, then my children should not be complaining that they are bored! There is a Bible verse that says, “Without oxen a stall is clean, but great is the increase by the power of the ox.” (Proverbs 14:4) In other words, the oxen is worth the labor it causes, but it makes a big stinky mess.
O.K., so they are really useful oxen…no people…I mean, well, I know I need to relax and enjoy this time, because that’s what all my “older” friends tell me I need to do, and they’ve been there. They all assure me that I’m going to blink and I will be wishing for all of this back. They’ll be gone and I won’t have anyone to pick up after. They tell me I’ll miss it.
I am sure that I will miss seven people’s worth of laundry, dishes, toys, etc. all over the house. At least that’s what they tell me.
Sometimes I think they may be crazy….but then…..
I suppose I can see a little of this phenomenon at work in my house right now. Ladybug is 16 months old, and she is so cute, I want o bite her. But I do miss the times she wasn’t so mobile or able to put every living and non living thing, dust bunny, popcorn kernel, or crayon in her mouth (more on that later). I do miss the peaceful times of nursing my first child in the quiet of the moment.
So maybe they do have a point. That doesn’t make the present any easier to keep clean, but at least the oxen are all well fed…..
Being real,
Brandie
3 comments:
Never thought to apply that verse that way, but it's a great one to remember. Thanks for reminding me to be thankful for my own "oxen"!
We're expecting another "oxen" in April...so, we'll be neck in neck for loads of laundry!
Hi Brandie, you don't know me, but I'm a member of SHOUT. Nice to read a blog of someone local! :)
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