Why every child needs a father!!

Jim and I trade off bathing the kids each night. Right around 7:00 the nagging begins from me, "Time for bath time" or "Okay kids time to head upstairs" and I continue until the 3 of them are sick of hearing me nag and go on their merrily little way. The reason I look forward to this time so much is because it means 30 minutes of complete and total silence and time just for ME!! No one asking me for food, or asking me to take them to the bathroom or having to wipe noses, just complete silence. Ohhhh how I love it. Now how do I normally spend this precious time? Well usually I finish cleaning the dishes, picking up toys or putting laundry away. But I'm not complaining because at least it's just me and I don't have to answer to anyone. Everyone once in awhile I'll pour myself a glass of wine, plop by myself on the couch and turn the DVR on for some more "me" time.
Well the other night as I was putting laundry away, I walked into the bathroom and this is what I find. All 3 of my loves, floating on their backs, with water pracitically running over the edge and bubbles everywhere, and well, I just have to laugh. This is so Jim and so my husbands way of doing things. Those of you who know him, this will come as no suprise. There were dirty diapers on the ground, the clothes were thrown on the wet floor (instead of being in the hamper where I always make the kids put them) and socks sitting on the counter. But look at these kids, do they look happy or what. It made me realize once again, that sometimes all of my cleaning and organizing really doesn't matter. What matters is that these kids are happy and enjoying life. Do you think they will look back and thank me for always having clean sheets on their beds or towels? Hell no! But will they remember bathing with their daddy, YES!! And I know this because ever since then they ask me if I am coming in the bath with them tonight. So today, I am taking a lesson from my husband. Even though I am the full time mom around here, it doesn't mean I am always right and do things the way it should be done. Today I am going to try and focus more on them and less on the "things" that are always on my ever ending to do list. The house will never be as clean as I want and the stuff will never be organized the way I want it to be, but today I will start working on just making my kids happy and making memories with them. The rest of that stuff can wait.

Well as I was uploading the pictures, it occurred to me that the pictures I was planning on uploading with the smiling faces, were not exactly "G" rated if you know what I mean. Since this blog is public, I don't want to run the risk of someone calling CPS on me, so instead, this is the only "G" rated picture I can show :-( It's a bummer too because the other ones were pretty funny! If I was better at photo shop, I could probably fix them, but I'm not, so I won't!