What's on YOUR floor?

I remember the days when I would sweep, mop and vacuum once a week…..well, those days are over. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining (well maybe I am), I just wanted to share with you the current condition of my floor. I’m not sure the number of minutes that I spend cleaning the floor every day but it’s a lot! These days our floor is covered with food and toys. I’ve told you guys before that Lily has “a thing” about feeding herself so the conclusion to that story is that there’s a lot of food that ends up on the floor. I feel like I spend ½ the day cleaning food off the floor or picking up the toys and stacking them back in “their place.” They stay in “their place” until Lily and Blake wake up from their naps and you know the rest.

I kept Blake today and bless his heart….he is such a good eater. He doesn’t insist on feeding himself, he lets me feed him baby food and the only food that’s dropped is just a tad on his bib. His tray is nice and clean and the floor under his chair is crumb free. And I look from his highchair over to our darlin’ Lily’s….she has hummus and blueberries smeared all over her face, neck, hair, on the tray, in the floor; there’s pieces of cheese and chicken on the floor. (this is a normal picture of mealtime for us) So, today I decided to just dunk her in the bathtub after lunch and Blake came along for the fun.

In the midst of all this concern over my floor and as I grumbled in my heart “how many times am I going to have to clean this stuff up?” God spoke to me….this is a season that we are going through and she will outgrow it. Will you mature and outgrow the areas that I’m constantly cleaning for you? In that moment I thought – if I get so irritated by the mess and the cycle of picking up toys and food, I can’t imagine how my Heavenly Father must grieve over the many times that He has to clean me up as I make the same messes again and again and again. And the verse that came to my mind was Isaiah 40:28, “Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.”

Praise God! I know I have a long way to go in my spiritual walk but He is patient and He doesn’t get tired or weary like I do! I have hope that seasons come and go and maturity is a process. There won’t always be toys and food on the floor and I pray that there won’t always be the same sins that I tend to struggle with. Philippians 3:12-21

Here are a few pictures that illustrate my post :)

the living room floor

Mommy, is this where the plate goes?

What about here?
With a smile like that she can throw as much food on the floor as she wants!

Bath after lunch...

she was so excited that Blake joined her

I had to run a few errands so Daddy fed Lily "breakfast"

I don't know what the American Pediatrics would say

about biscuits for breakfast but Lily says "the bib says it all!"

(did you notice the camouflage pj's....those were Daddy's idea, too)