[email protected]

In a message dated 1/26/2004 8:35:01 AM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:

This is awesome. I'm keeping it!

Pam T.

>
> We don't clean up messes to have a clean house. We clean up messes so
> there is room for more mess!
> Now I think of cleaning up after my kids as replacing a canvas. I do
> it with the thought that by giving them room again and a bare floor and
> organized toys to pick from I'm handing them the tools to write another mess onto
> our house



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Dawn Adams

Pam writes:
>This is awesome. I'm keeping it!

Pam T.

>
> We don't clean up messes to have a clean house. We clean up messes so
> there is room for more mess!
> Now I think of cleaning up after my kids as replacing a canvas. I do
> it with the thought that by giving them room again and a bare floor and
> organized toys to pick from I'm handing them the tools to write another mess onto
> our house


Thanks Pam! I've been trying to write it up into a short essay for a week or so now. I have really gotten no farther than that email. :) BUT, I'm going to leave the kids with my DH sometime in the next few days and go down to the local coffee shop and write it all out. It's been in my head since I had the revelation and I need to exorcise it already! I'm glad it helped.

Dawn (in NS)


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