I’m over at MomLife talking about saying yes to messes. Here’s a snippet of my post:
It was late Thursday afternoon. It had been a long day and I was very ready for my husband to walk in the door so I could have some back-up help with our three busy children.
Silas, my three-year-old, walked up to me with a bottle of nail polish and excitedly asked if he could paint my nails. He’s seen his girly-girl sister paint my nails before and I guess he thought it looked like something he would enjoy doing for me, as well.
I appreciated his sweet sentiment, but I could only picture nail polish splattered all over the floor, all over his clothes, and all over me. After a long day, the thought of scrubbing all that mess up was very unappealing.
excellent article! It’s so hard and yet so important to live in the “now” with our children!
Oh my goodness, this is wonderful! Love this story! My little guy is 2 so this is just precious!
Teary-eyed now. Great post and something I need to remember!
This is one of my son’s (3 also) favorite things to do too, but he loves to paint his own nails. He’ll ask me to paint them for him all the time. I enjoy it, no mess, and he loves it. Sometimes he’ll ask to do my nails or even my husbands and we let him. We sit on towels, and let him go to town. He tries really hard to stay “in the lines”.
His pediatrician makes jokes about painting his nails, but I really feel like it’s a great skill to know. Not for painting nails, but the hand eye coordination and concentration it takes is great for him. Plus, it’s just like finger painting!
nicely written and I was crying my eyes out, lol.
So sweet, I remember some of those endearing times with young children. Tons of barrettes in my hair (lol), assisting in the kitchen and they are so precious.
so true thanks for sharing
Love this! And love the picture!
Crystal, you are very BRAVE! =)
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