What i want to do

It's been hard for me sometimes when I look at my to-do list and it takes weeks just to get around to doing something simple like cleaning the furnace filter. And that "plant microgreens" item on the list? It could be January before that happens. But there are lots of articles floating around the web on the importance of motherhood, and one of my favorites says "your kids ARE your to-do list." Not that you have to "fix" them, but that spending time with them is the main - and best - part of your mom gig, whether you are a stay at home mom or not. 

Sometimes i'm afraid I'm going to lose sight of that. That in a few years i'll lose all joy in my kids and lose all my patience and fall into all kinds of things i currently am hating. But i don't think it has to be that way. I mean, i KNOW i will screw up, and i'll definitely have to ask my girls to forgive me (haha, marriage has already taught me that), but maybe things can actually get even better. Entropy in relationships is NOT a scientific law. :)

So here is a commitment to, by God's grace, keep enjoying my kids even if it's years before i really get my act together on other things. Both the deep-cleaning of closets and the planting of microgreens can survive for another day. As they say, "babies don't keep."