Sometimes life gets messy.

Little kids are super adorable. But boy are they messy! Before having a baby I was a pretty clean person. I cleaned and sanitized the whole house every single week. My things were always picked up and neatly put away. Now....let's just say I am more flexible. I still keep a clean home but life is sometimes messier than expected.

Let's take eating. Kids are messy eaters! Their hands get messy. Their trays get messy. And the floor beneath them? Messy isn't even the right word. More like nuclear fallout. We are working on teaching Eva not to throw food on the floor but some days it is an uphill battle.

Then there is the actually physical dirt. Kids love to play outside and the great outdoors is a messy, dirty world. It's so good for them to be able to play and run and explore though, so a little dirt is worth the fun! On days when I vacuum and mop I am shocked at how much dirt has been brought into our home in such a short amount of time.

And there are also the unexpectedly messy things. Toys scattered everywhere. Books, which would seem to be neat (think of a library), become quite messy when you have 30 of them sprawled out across the living room. Building Blocks? They come in a set of 100! (Oh, good......) Socks and shoes take adventures hiding all about the house. It's amazing.

My dad used to joke with me when I was younger that I oozed stickiness. Now that I'm a mom I can totally see what he was saying. That munchkin does in fact seem to be covered in sticky! The other day I packed a healthy snack of pears and peaches for her to take to an outdoor soccer game we watched - I might as well have smushed it all over her and said, "Go for it!" instead of putting it in a snack cup because that's pretty much where it ended up.

One morning on our way to church Eva and I literally only had to walk from the front door to the car parked in the driveway. She decided instead to run off in the other direction and fell straight into a pile of mud. The mother-of-the-year thing to do would be to take her inside and get her changed into clean clothes. Nope. I just used many baby wipes to give her a thorough brush off and off to church we went. Maybe God made kids so messy so that their mothers wouldn't get too prideful in how precious and adorable they are!

After a full morning of playing at the park, covering her face with sweet potato and yogurt, drawing with chalk, and lying face down in the grass (how else was she supposed to look at that flower close up?) my sweet girl went into the tub before nap time. At least these noisy, dirty people were created to clean up nicely!