Rembering What is Important

“Mother, oh 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, rockaby, 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 til 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.”

I just stole this from a blog of a friend of mine. When I read it, it brought tears to my eyes. I feel like I just had a baby, but that sweet baby is 2 1/2. My little Jacer's is almost 6, and of my little Hailey bugs is 8, and is loosing more and more of the little girl each day.

Each day flies by like a blink of an eye and I wonder what I have done. I look around, and most days there are dishes in the sink, the bathrooms are sort of dirty, I am not sure if I have even washed all the windows in my house since we have moved in, and there is always clean laundry waiting to be folded on the couch.

Lately, I have discovered my limits...there are 3 things that need to be done each day...1) Do my work ( I work from home). 2) Keep up on my household duties. 3) Love and play with my sweet kids. I have decided that I can do 2 of these each day. When I try all 3, I usually fail and am flustered. I realized that something has to give on most days. I have to do 2 of these...I have to do my job, and most importantly, take care of my little angels. So, my house is messy and needs to be dusted, with the help of the kids and Ryan we pick it up every few days....but for now I am going to play with my kids, and rock them (if they will let me :)) because I am learning way too fast that babies don't keep.