The important stuff...

When my children look back on their childhood, I want them to remember the days we spent going on walks, making forts with blankets, having family movie nights, playing Monopoly,making fires, reading bedtime stories, going on family trips, doing our family exercices after FHE, taking noodle baths & having ice cream parties- but in order to do that, I have to make the time for them, which means I have to stop what I'm doing and play, and laugh & have fun too.

I know having a clean home is important (and to me, super, super important) but I have to realize if I am not careful all they will remember is how much Mom cleaned growing up, how Mom got mad all the time because the toys were in the living room, how much Mom hated dirt in the house, how Mom made them wash our hands a million times a day and change out of their clothes after school because she didn't want the "school germs" in the house, how Mom wouldn't allow blanket forts because they were too messy and if you wore your shoes in the house you would be in HUGE trouble. I want them to look back on days that we made Rice Krispie treats and painted rainbows instead...