Snow Day  

“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.”

I’d been on the fence about this for many years. Some days — the days when I was tired — I’d chant this saying with perfect confidence. Other days — the days when I simply couldn’t take the mess anymore — I’d scoff at the stupidity.

Yes, you absolutely should clean the house while the kids are growing. First, because how else will they learn? (No, seriously!) But also, because if you don’t, the mess accumulates. And a mess that accumulates, over the span of hours, over the span of days, is exponentially more difficult to tackle than a mess that is one round of Battleship old.

But then it snowed. A lot. And I acknowledged the truth of this saying.