What Happened Today

WARNING.
This is utterly disgusting. 
So don't read it if you can't handle potty posts.

THERE IS NOTHING LIKE when your two-year-old chooses to forgo the toilet and poop in the middle of the kitchen floor and then the dog comes to clean up the evidence.

Seriously?!

I don't even know what part of this is more disgusting.  Really.

And as I am shooing the dog away and trying to clean up the worst smelling stuff on the planet (literally smells like dead things), I am actually wondering if I should have just let the dog have at it. 

This my friends is what my day is like.

Sure, it is filled with some really sweet moments.  Moments that just make me praise God and think, "My cup runneth over." (Psalm 23)  Moments that almost make me cry because I am so thankful and just want to take it all in as much as I can.  Like when Noah tells me that he loves me to the moon and back.  Or when Aiden has to be in my business all the time (which can also drive me nuts some days) and I just look at him and he gets a huge smile on his face and laughs because I think he realizes that he hasn't left me alone all day.  Or when Asa hugs me randomly (and also sometimes when he hugs me because he knows he is about to get in big trouble and he is hoping the hug cancels out his punishment).  Or when Nathan just latches on to me and asks me to hold him and then put his arms around me and buries his head into me.  Love that stuff.

But my day is also filled with so many moments of "Are you kidding me right now?!"

And "I seriously think I am going to puke if I have to clean that up...again."

And "I am soooo tired of putting kids in time out and hearing whining and brothers fighting and quoting the same Scripture to the boys about loving one another and honoring their parents."

And "I am so tired that I think I could sleep for about a week."

Ahhh....

I am pretty sure that this is what everyone tells me that I am going to miss so much.  Even the poop and the whining and the mess?  Yes, even that.  Because those things mean that I have a house full of children.  I still have time to influence them and point them to Jesus.  I still get to hear their laughter on a daily basis and be the most important woman in their life.  And that won't last forever. 

Lord, help me to take delight in even the worst of moments and be thankful that I have them.  And when Asa poops all over the house, or in his pants for the umpteenth time every day, help me to consider it all joy.