normal everyday motherhood.

I was finishing up writing a post for Home Educating Family about Grace for the Crazy Days {when it publishes I’ll send you the link}. In it I shared about how we need to not be surprised when a day seems to go off track – instead it’s in realizing that most days, in fact, go off track according to the perfect ideal day plan. The days that could be written about in Family Fun happen every so often – remember them – but don’t use them as a barometer for determining whether or not your day was successful.

So today, today, I’m sharing with you a list of some normal everyday motherhood events from my life. Now, of course, these don’t all happen everyday {thank goodness}, but I’m just listing them so we can get it in the open that this stuff? Well, it’s normal. And, maybe we need to add space in our day for these moments of little ones putting bubbles on their chin and ignore the water and bubbles all over the counter and floor and then brush ourselves off and just keep going.

Some everyday motherhood normals.

Any kind of spill {read I love you more than spilled milk for my experience}.
Early risers.
Late risers.
Up in the middle of the night all nighters.
Days when all of a sudden nothing fits right for your kids.
Days when all of a sudden nothing fits right for you.
Light saber battles in the middle of the living room.
Light saber battles in the middle of the living room with Ironman

Days when drawers are emptied when your littles are digging for clothes.
Days when your laundry basket of folded clothes gets dumped out.
You’re out of coffee
You’re out of creamer.
You’re house might be very very loud.
You run to the store quick and the car is almost out of gas.
The phone isn’t charged.
You can’t find your cell phone which you left on mute.
No one likes the cereal that you have available for breakfast.
You are analyzing cereal bowls to make sure that everyone has an equal amount.
The trip to the park didn’t go as planned.

Your hair is in a pony tail.
The amazing craft that you planned was over in five minutes.
The glue spilled.
The glue got in your toddler’s hair.
There’s arguing over who gets the pencil.
You don’t have any sharp pencils.
The sharpener is lost.
Any electric sharpener that you buy breaks within weeks. {true to my life}
The toys get dumped out in one big pile
The toys get dumped out in one big pile which then gets mixed together.
The mixed up toys are referred to as the best experiment ever mom.

There is laundry to do. {never ever put laundry on the to-do list – put it on the every day list}
You’re late.
You’re really early but it’s too early to do anything but sit in the car and wait.
You forgot what time you’re to be there.
The invitation that you saved on the fridge is now gone.
You don’t know what to make for dinner.
You’ve had pbjs for lunch every day this week.
You forgot to read those books {read dear in a minute mom}.
The sliding doors and windows that you just washed will gain fingerprints within minutes.

You love your kids.
You love them mega {that’s my favorite way to tell me kids I love them – I love you mega.}
You love them mega and sometimes you forget to slow down and tell them.
You start to  learn to extend yourself grace.
You keep trying.
You remember that the stuff on this list of normal is, well, normal. It’s not failing or bad.
You embrace the little things, the joy, the gift of today.

Normal.

My normal day? Starts early. With coffee. With almost a dozen spills and dumped out toys and issues over pencils or math with pbjs for lunch and my hair in a pony tail and a living room that once was clean but now is messy because the little boys decided to play their perfect game there and with a load of laundry waiting to be folded and one waiting to be washed and a gigantic basket of mismatched socks that never seem to be caught up – my normal – is simply the beauty in the everyday.

And so is yours.

We’re in this normal everyday motherhood together.

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