I Am Over This. . .Quarantine Cleaning Week 950
It is another Saturday morning of quarantine and I am at home. The store is still closed to inside shopping so my Saturdays are fairly open, outside of a few curbside pickups. I have been trying to use my Saturdays to do a little cleaning around the house. For anyone that knows me, that is not my idea of fun.
My proof that I did clean today. :)
Now, I don’t like my house to be dirty, but it is not generally Instagram worthy picture perfect. You will find many stacks of books and magazines throughout the house and miscellaneous art supplies, sketch books and half painted canvases here and there.
It isn’t that I don’t desire to have a home that could be featured in Better Homes & Gardens, and maybe someday I will, but right now, my house is lived in and loved.
It isn’t that I don’t know how to clean, my husband calls me a binge cleaner. If I know my house needs to be whipped into shape because company is coming, you all better get out of my way. It is amazing how quickly I can clean this house from top to bottom if I know someone is going to be knocking on my door.
This morning I got a workout in just scrubbing my oven (I am not sure what my family cooks in there when I am not here, but wow, that was not super fun).
I kick myself sometimes and think that I am not “teaching” my girls the proper way to keep a home. But I say, that I am teaching them so much more. They are learning to be entrepreneurs, they are learning to be creative and all those books they have read since they were out of the womb. . .well they are way stinkin’ smarter than their mama and I say it is because of the books. :)
They know I love to be in the kitchen and I am passing down family recipes that will hopefully be made for many generations to come. And most of all, they see my well loved Bible on the Table, my devotional books in a stack on the floor and my prayer journal that is filled with prayers asking God to be present and active everyday in my life and in their lives.
So quarantine has helped me do some things around here that I did not take enough time to do when we were crazy busy, but I am ready for the crazy busy again. Life is way to short to waste a beautiful day with my head stuck in my oven.
There is a box of books that got delivered to my house instead of the store yesterday that I think I will open and do a little research for the store (aka: binge on reading new books).
Every morning I try to wake up and choose joy. It has not been easy the last couple of months. I am so ready for a little bit of normal, whatever that might be. I am praying for a miracle and believe that we will see one in some form through all of this mess.
Yesterday I read something in my “New Every Morning” devotion that I want to leave you with today.
“The difference between seeing seas part, the dead rising, walls crumbling, armies overcoming and every might miracle on display in Scripture and the average life is one word—faith.
The most radical experience isn’t the adventure itself, it is the process of wholeheartedly trusting and believing God to do the impossible. With God—all things are possible. The life of faith allows us to arrest fear and embrace the great adventure of God—abundant life!””
At the end of the day, my house may not be perfect, I may have spent a little bit too much time with my head stuck in a book, but life is short and God still loves me and a little dust on the table is going to be o’kay.
Another reason why I don’t get anything done on when I am home. . .
