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the laundry will {wait}
Posted on May 26, 2011
Many of you know I am a stay at home mom. Well I guess you could call it a “working at home mom”. I am a Registered Nurse, I run my photography business, I have 2 small children, 2 teen step-children, a work-a-holic husband with a demanding job, and my 81 year old great uncle who has recently moved in. I nurse on the weekends, I shoot/edit/plan/email/etc for my photography business when the kids are sleeping, or when my husband is home. It allows me to stay home with my kids. I love being here with them even if it means my house is a disaster, I look like I could sleep for a week straight, and no one has anything clean to wear.
These years are so short. Already my daughter is in JK and in school half of the week. I miss the endless days with her crafting, chatting, playing, baking etc. Soon she will be in school full time, and time will go even faster.
Today we ran errands in the morning, had lunch and Adam went for his afternoon nap {I think I can do what I do because I have been blessed from the beginning with excellent sleepers!}
Mary has been wanting to paint rocks since we saw them at a birthday party on the weekend. So when we were out running errands I managed to pick up some paint. When Adam sleeps I try and get everything else done. Recently resorted to setting my timer on my iphone to 20 minute intervals~its amazing what you can get done in 20 minutes and then move on to the next task. So today, 20 minutes email for work, 20 minutes dinner prep, 20 minutes laundry~then paint rocks! Mary knew the plan, but it wasn’t happening. As soon as dinner got in the oven she came to me, and asked if we could start painting rocks (for the millionth time)….okay the laundry can wait….
Out we went, and spent such a lovely hour on the driveway painting rocks for the garden….she loves art/crafts and tells me she is going to be a “great artist when she grows up”. I think she already is one….
We talked about fossils (when one of her rocks broke in half), colours, patterns, plants, our garden, how these were going to make our garden “so beautiful, the ants will love them!”
We discussed how she wants to have a “fair, to show off all her rocks”, or perhaps she could “put them in her bike basket and show them to the neighbours”….
It was such a blissful hour before the rain started, before Adam woke up, before dinner was cooked, before dance class and all the craziness that always happens at 4pm when everyone is starving, tired and cranky. It was an hour that I will treasure forever, whenever I look at the painted rocks in my garden…
So today the laundry will wait. It will still be there tomorrow {I do laundry everyday}, because today we painted rocks.
{Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone}
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Your teaching Mary and anyone else who reads this, what’s truly important,time is a beautiful thing
she will pass that on too 
Love it Rebecca !!!! this is a great Ideal .I see a project for Sophia coming up .I needed a Ideal for my garden ! Thanks Your Awsome
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I love that you take so much time to be with your precious little gifts they grow up soooo fast and i love that you you have documented via photography for the rest of us to enjoy with you
I don’t know how you do it all but you are very inspiring! Your post brought a smile to my face…and makes me want to go out and collect rocks for Ny.