My kitchen is an obstacle course.
We could ski down the laundry pile, if only there were a chairlift.
The kitchen floor crunches. And there is a 15-month-old loose in my house.
It's 7 am on a Wednesday.
Welcome to my life.
It's always like this midweek. That's part of the reason so few people homeschool.
Well, add to that a few extra kids, and a reason to be out of the house every day. Cleaning can't be the top priority during the week.
I clean the house on Friday, and it's a delight to live in for the weekend. Monday morning is good...then the downward spiral begins. By Thursday I am suicidal, and the children can assemble an entire meal from the remnants under their feet. We're talking new meaning for the phrase 'food pyramid'.
Using common sense and Murphy's law, can you figure out when People I want to Impress drop by? Yes. It's very embarrassing.
Daddy called me Monday to ask if he could swing by. I love my daddy, and I like to have him over. But like every woman on the planet, I have daddy issues. That means that I long for my daddy to think I am the most talented, lovely, wonderful daughter on the planet. Every daughter does this. There's whole books on the topic. It's why women get to be promiscuous, or become super models.
So daddy came by and I had no makeup on, the children were wild, and the kitchen was rapidly being buried under the week's crumb quota.
Daddy was really gracious and would never ever say anything about the disaster around him. It must be a terrible shock for him, though, to see that I descended from him! 'Descended' being, perhaps the right word!
I suppose that if I were able to be showered, made-up, slender, and homeschool children in a perpetually clean house, then I would be the most talented, lovely, and wonderful daughter on the planet! Until then, I am sure glad that Daddy (and the others in my life) love me just the way I am!
2 comments:
So, are you saying I should not have been honest with my oldest daughter - to the extent of what I thought about her lifestyle and her lack of attainment in education during her last year of schooling?
If this is true, it is the first I have ever heard on this subject and may answer the hard question as to why she has gone as she has.
I guess being a "non feeling" male whom would tell they daughter they are loved but they are an utter dolt - was perhaps the wrong approach?
This is a very hard to understand comment you made.....
(Yuck, Kris can be serious, I guess!)
kjp,
Every woman on the planet understands it perfectly!I don't know if Daddy's can ever know how much their daughters look up to them.
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