Good Moms

From London Momma's tumblr.

I'm so glad I found this. I saw it after walking across a sticky floor textured with hardened cereal crumbs and dried milk. Life with a toddler and a part-time stay-at-home-papa means that I've had to let certain things go. And those certain things have not been time with my family. They have been cleanliness and orderliness.

We are a mess.

Our temporary move-to-Ontario, get-a-new-job, have-too-much-on-the-go, and buy-a-new-house life is not a Martha Stewartian life. It is a chaotic, crumbs on the floor life. But a happy one.

And so, yes. I totally agree. Good moms have dirty floors, sticky ovens and happy kids. Because, as I'm learning, we have to choose what we neglect in life. And a rambunctious toddler is far cuter than a dirty oven.