Reasons dinner isn’t done……

There is no way to adequately express the chaos that ensues when I enter the kitchen to begin dinner preparations- unless you are a mom or a nanny. In that case, you understand perfectly.  When your husband comes in from work at 5:15 and the house that was clean half an hour ago is destroyed and dinner is nowehere near complete, and the children are running naked, in circles, with markers, eating crackers and suckers, he might give you a look. I hope for his sake it’s a what can I do to help look. While peeling potatoes….

• I was shot in the head with a dart gun. 
• The baby was in the knife drawer. 
• Someone was bleeding. 
• The boys turned off the lights while I was standing over the stove. 
• The baby got her foot stuck in the oven drawer handle. 
• One boy covered the dining room in Vaseline. 
• Caught baby sucking on the topless red marker. 
• The boys chased one another with a container of saline nasal spray (which I ignored until I heard, “spray it in her hair!” -they were after the baby).
• I tripped over the baby who was riding a semi truck through the kitchen. 
• I shimmied across the kitchen with a pot full of water heading toward the stove dragging a boy grasping onto each ankle. 
• Someone was bleeding.
• Stepped over a boy doing yoga, on my yoga mat that was stretched across the kitchen floor. 
• I dressed 6 superheroes.
• Got goosed by a light saber. 

So, I turn up the Lauren Daigle. And when I find myself feeling defeated,  I remember that I have almost survived another day. Actually, there’s a good chance we all will at this point. Well, maybe not the mashed potatoes. 

God is good. All the time. And luckily, my husband is kind enough to smile and eat the lumpy potatoes with grace. Because really, who has time to dirty up the mixer? 
❤️ Shalom
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