I do strive continually for improvement in my mothering and housework because I don’t want to make my kids’ lives stressful. I grew up with a mom who cared so little for housecleaning, she didn’t mind if roaches crawled over her children at night. I mean just beyond grimy, so I don’t want my kids living nasty like that. I feel my kids should live in beauty and cleanliness and light. Life is hard enough without living in filth. That said, I’m a low-key cleaner, I keep my house decently clean, but by no means spotless. I like everything bright and shiny and clutter-free, but livable, comfortable.

With mothering, I don’t want to mess them up because I know just how much of an impact I have on them. Even with my big kids, what I do and say to and about them means so much. For example yesterday 14 yr S-bop came home with a graded test he took right before holiday break. He got an A, in a class he had really been struggling with. When I saw the paper and exclaimed over it, his eyes just lit up and he hugged himself a little and jumped up and down before hugging me. Just the fact that I was proud of him and acknowledged what a big deal this was, it made his day. It goes the other way too, I have said things to my children that brought them to tears. These people take what I say and do to heart so it is a responsibility I take seriously. I can blow off anything and everyone else (well except my husband) but when it comes to my kids, I am all about being their mama.

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