This would have been helpful for me to understand on the front end of homeschooling. My job site is my own home. That means my house is like a construction site that is never really finished until the kids are out of school. If you stop and think about it, you wouldn't expect the guys re-roofing your house to clean the lawn to perfection every day at the end of work. They will do that when the job is done, but not during the process. They put away tools and what not, the big stuff, but in general it looks like a job site (aka messy).
Of course there is a difference between dirty and messy, but I could have used someone to just say "let it go". Let go of the dream that everything in this house will have a place while these kids are still here messing it up. Just enjoy those kids. Teach them to do chores and operate as a family, but lower the standards to the place where the house is not perfect but the family is at rest even in the clutter.
I am asked all the time, what will I do when the kids all go to school. I have some ideas and so does my husband (wink,wink,nudge,nudge,know what I mean), but what I tell my children is that I will probably just sit around and cry because I miss them so much. My daughter asked me the other day if I could also clean while I'm crying. Another Homeschool Success Story!
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