Learning to Laugh About It Proverbs 31:5

She is clothed with strength and dignity,
and she laughs without fear of the future.
Proverbs 31:25

Well I was caught up on laundry today...for at least 30 minutes. My kitchen was clean between morning snack time and lunch prep and almost clean after lunch but not quite. Satan has tremendous ability to get me down with discouragement and inadequacy when it comes to house cleaning. I'm a neat freak, perfectionist, tidy, and oh, so organized lady and I have a two month old who... spits up all the time, a 2 year old who gets into everything, and my four year old, well, he just reminds me of Linus from Charlie Brown when he comes in from outside. It's an adventure doing life with my loves but it's a messy adventure. Here is the thing, I will never be caught up on house work so long as I'm living life with my little loves. If I dwell on the fact that my house will not be clean for the next 18 years and spend my days worried how I will ever be caught up I'm going to be a grump and not embracing God's best for me. Maybe, one day if Brian and I have an empty nest or if we have finances to have a house keeper each week or if I have no dog or if, or if, or if. The one "if" in life I can count when it comes to cleanliness is if I'm embracing laughter, joy, and positivity when looking at my my almost clean home filled with life and family I AM going to be a lot happier in life. In the end I want a lot of smile lines and memories over a perfectly clean house. So today I choose to laugh more about the never ending mess because there is a lot of happiness in it!

Dear God, help me to learn to laugh about it. To laugh about the mess, the challenge, the chaos that is my life right now. I can choose joy. I can choose to embrace the craziness of the day and be positive, find the little things that make me smile, and let go of what I can't control.

Amen.