Priorities...

I want to say that often I forget why I'm staying home with my kids. This morning, for instance: I watched myself do laundry while Cai brought me pretend cupcakes and asked if I would like to join his picnic. I didn't. I mopped the kitchen floor while he practiced drawing faces on his Magnadoodle and begged me to come in to look at each one. I did, but then immediately went back to mopping. I emptied the kitty litter box while he made 'castles' with his dad's tools. And finally, I stopped unloading the dishwasher when he broke down alone in his bedroom because he couldn't make his trains stay on the little wooden tracks. Sometimes a person just needs to be redirected. And today I'm vowing that tomorrow I will chuck the housework before my baby boy falls apart because his mama is ignoring him.