My Baby's Home From Camp!
I'm afraid I spent this week housecleaning, housecleaning housecleaning I found lots of stuff like this in my kids room, now I know most would be a little peeved to discover such things in and around the room, but I'll have to admit I was never much of a housekeeper, so all I could do was shake my head, and take out another bag of garbage. I pulled up the rug, spent an afternoon pulling up all those wood slats of nails used to hold it down, returned the fishies and bird back to their owners room, hung the curtains, moved the furniture and can now say the child's room is clean for the 1st time in YEARS!!!
I am sitting here now in my nice cleaned up house, and I know it sounds so silly, but I feel a nice sense of accomplishment, especially since all the clutter in this house really bothered me for a long time, I'm amazed I finally
found the motivation to get all this work done, especially since I am now on vacation from the "pit" otherwise known as my job for a week and I get to enjoy my days off without having to spend them scrubbing. I plan to spend my short vacation (I have no time so a week is all I can do) with my kids, going to the concerts at the park, seeing a game and wandering around the city.
Anyway my baby's HOME!!! Okay I'll admit it, I missed my littlest kid these past two weeks, and by Friday I was itching to pick her up. My mom gave me a ride to go get her. A nice surprise was a little post card this week from her camp counselors that said
Greetings From Camp! Alexandria is a joy to have at camp she participates enthusiastically in everything that she does. She has made lots of new friends while being here. Alexandria gave a wonderful performance in our lip-sync talent contest...(from her unit counselors)
YAY! I know they could just be saying kind things, but I'm sure if she was miserable I would have heard SOMETHING else right? Sometimes, when I look at my life, and all the silly things I've done, and mistakes I've made I'm simply beside myself that I can even do something like get together the resources to send my kids off to camp. It makes me feel good!
You know even as they get older you have to remember things like this:
Mother, of Mother, come shake out your cloth
empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
hang out the washing and butter the bread,
sew on a button and make up a bed.
Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She's up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.
Oh, I've grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue
(lullaby, rockabye, lullaby loo).
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
(pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo).
The shopping's not done and there's nothing for stew
and out in the yard there's a hullabaloo
but I'm playing Kanga and this is my Roo.
Look! Aren't her eyes the most wonderful hue?
(lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).
The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,
for children grow up, as I've learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust go to sleep.
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.
