Jack and I, while not neat freaks, like a clean house. Jack just doesn't like mess and I don't like clutter and chaos - so together it creates a happy mutual dislike of an unkempt home. This is a good, since a family of seven plus animal life creates a pretty solid amount of mess and clutter no matter how hard you try to avoid it.
This week...our house is messy. Not filthy, but definitely not where we like it to be. There are smelly dishes and scattered toys and we are about 2 towels away from drying off with bed sheets...or mismatched socks, we have lots of those. This week...we are on Baby Watch. Jack is trying to get as much work done as he can before Baby Girl comes. I am using all of the energy I do have to try and soak up every minute of time I have left with just Baby Boy and me. Our household is going to be forever changed within the week and all our thoughts and actions are clustered around that one idea.
So this week...the dishes can sit. The laundry can pile. The toys can live wherever they want and multiply unexplainably. We can eat out of my freezer stockpile and pizza delivery. This week...Mama and Baby Boy are playing blocks and then napping together all sweaty and cuddly on the couch. Daddy is bringing down the baby swing and running a load of underwear and socks. Everything else is taking a backseat to our big family event. We have the rest of our lives to fight clutter and mess and chaos. We have only these few precious days to linger in this particular family unit before our lives are totally shifted again. So if anyone is planning on visiting, lower your expectations just this once...and please bring pizza.
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