March: Make A Mess
We spend so much of our life as moms cleaning up messes, not giving them a second thought. The socks in the entryway, the puffs on the dining room floor, the books and toys and sippy cups scattered everywhere… there’s so much we tend to without even thinking about it.
And there are other messes that are ones for the record book: the diaper blowouts that end with a naked baby riding home in a damp carseat, the baking “adventures” that leave us looking like an “I Love Lucy” episode. An older woman I worked with often recounted the time her toddler smeared Crisco across every surface of their kitchen and how she sat on the floor of her kitchen on the phone with her mom, sobbing that she’d scrubbed and scrubbed and everything was still covered in a slick layer of shortening.
Whether your mess is small but significant or large and legendary, write about a time you made a mess and lived through it — or, make a mess this month in a way you haven’t before, with paint or dirt or flour or fabric, and notice how it changes you, your surroundings, and your attitude.
Photo essays also welcome, of course, if your mess is better shared through images than words (aren’t so many of them?!?).
Can’t wait to make messes with all of you.
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