There was one day last week that was particularly tough. I had a to-do list a mile long, but I found myself cleaning out the kids closets because the weather had taken a turn and suddenly fall was upon us and no one had any appropriate clothing in sight.
So there I was sitting there lamenting about how my three children are just about 2 steps way from being on their own episode of Hoarders with the state of their closets, I was severely complaining in my head.
“Why am I always the one cleaning up EVERYTHING around here?”
“Does anyone ever even notice?”
“Why am I even doing this, because next week this will all look the same as before?”
Those were just some of the thoughts that were not rolling off my tongue but they were definitely rolling around my mind.
But then suddenly my mind went back to another day……almost 9 and half years ago…when I was bed ridden. I was pregnant with my second, had been severely sick for the first 5 months and then was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia for the next three months. There I was laying on the couch….because it was the only thing I could do. And what were my thoughts back then?
“Why can’t I just get up and vacuum my house?”
“What I wouldn’t give to just get up and make dinner for my family?”
So what would that girl tell me last week when I was whining like a banshee about cleaning out closets?
DON’T WISH AWAY THE ORDINARY DAYS.
One more scenario popped into my head. This was about three years later when I was laying in my bed after a pretty routine surgery. A phone call came for me. “You have cancer,” the doctor said on the other end of the phone. And through the next weeks and months of treatments, what would that girl have told me last week?
DON’T WISH AWAY THE ORDINARY DAYS.
And then I read this article last night.
DON’T WISH AWAY THE ORDINARY DAYS.
Motherhood is a challenge sometimes. But let’s not wish away the ordinary days….~Elizabeth
That is so very true. I actually cherish the ordinary days. When I had my gallbladder removed, all I really wanted to do was vaccuum. Seriously. It was so difficult for months (I am a very slow healer), but when I finally could it was so sweet. I actually vaccuum every day now.
It is in them that such beauty can be found. Goodness what perspective you have! And cancer??
Please tell me it is gone.
Much love to you in all these ordinary days.
Michelle,
Thank you for your sweet comment. Really. Thank you. Elizabeth
Thank you so much. I find myself complaining internally of course of all that I have to do as a mom and feeling so unappreciated. Your post was just what I needed to refocus on what’s truly important 🙂 I’m blessed to be a mom and a wife and all that goes along with it 🙂 thanks again and many blessings to you and your family!