I always laugh when I hear that Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest. Whoever said that has obviously never spent Sunday at the Smith household. I spend the entire morning ironing church clothes, bathing a whiny preschooler, and blowdrying and straightening girls' hair. By the time we leave for church, it looks like a tornado has hit. There are pajamas, breakfast dishes and various discarded church outfits (I'm slightly indecisive when it comes to my Sunday apparel) lying all over the kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. And I'm still always late to Sacrament Meeting. By the time I get home from church, I am utterly exhausted. Obviously, I need a nap to recover. Unfortunately, this only compounds the problem. Since my children are not nearly so exhausted and way too old for naps, the house is inevitably worse when I wake up than when I went to sleep. Here it is after today's slumber.
Chad decided that he wanted to make the Nieman-Marcus chocolate chip cookies that his Sunday School teacher had brought to church today. This is part of the mess left behind. Do you think he'll offer to clean up after himself? Ha! Ha! His heart is in the right place though. He wanted to make the cookies so that we could invite Grandma over and cheer her up (this week being the two year anniversary of my dad's death).
Chad made one pan of regular cookies and then this giant cookie pie - partly because it is 3/14 (pie day) and partly because he says the cookie is as big as Poppy's heart.
And while Chad was baking, Aaron and the girls were making their almost weekly fort. I hate forts! Every time they make one, I hear these words. "Mom, we promise we'll clean it up ourselves this time." Oh what delusions of grandeur! Help! I need a rest from my day of rest.
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What I want to know is, did Chad use clarified butter in those cookies? :) What is clarified butter, anyways? I'll have to ask him sometime never having taken home economics. Can you believe it's been two years since Dad died? I need to call you sometime this week and ask you how to change my border on my blog. I'm itching for a change.
"I need a rest from my day of rest" I can't agree more!
I hate forts too!!!
I really could leave Sunday off my week and be just fine! Love that you took pictures of messes - I do that, too. Guess so when my kids are gone and I think my house is a mess then I can look back a realize what a mess really was!
Amen!! Do kids somehow pass this on to each other, because I could have written this post about my little trials! How is it that kids all over the world pick the same ways to play while all we're trying to do is recover (nap) for the next mess....
I also feel like my "day of rest" isn't restful most of the time, but I wouldn't give it up either! Although I could give up forts!
That is a VERY big mess me and AARON made BETHANY
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