{"id":11431,"date":"2012-01-24T10:04:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T15:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blessingsmultiplied.com\/?p=11431"},"modified":"2012-01-24T10:04:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T15:04:40","slug":"what-do-you-see-the-mess-or-a-race-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/?p=11431","title":{"rendered":"What Do You See – a Mess or a Race Track?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After lunch one Sunday the girls were instructed to pick up the newspaper after they were finished looking at it while Jake and I worked for a few minutes on our schedules for the upcoming week.\u00a0 After about thirty minutes or so I came back into the kitchen and this is what I saw…..my first thought was “seriously, what a huge mess!”\u00a0 Instead of picking up the papers they had spread all of them over the kitchen and dining room floors.\u00a0 When asked as to why they didn’t pick “up” the newspaper they told me “Well we decided that it would make a great race track!”<\/p>\n

Although the mess was big I had to hold back from laughing.\u00a0 It was a pretty cool looking race track even if it was a mess. \u00a0\u00a0 They were quite proud of their “track”.\u00a0 So despite the fact the kitchen and dining room looked like they were carpeted with newspaper and ads I decided to let them enjoy it for the afternoon as long as they would pick it up before we left for Awana that evening.<\/p>\n

The silly part is that they had a blast with the newspaper.\u00a0 Who would have ever thought that a newspaper could provide so much entertainment.\u00a0 They rebuilt the roads several times, added new vehicles, used it as a walking track, and several other silly things all in that one afternoon.\u00a0 In a matter of hours that newspaper got more love and provided more entertainment then all the other newspapers we have ever received put together.\u00a0 And the best part, when asked to pick it up (the second time) the girls did it happily and in a matter of a couple of minutes.<\/p>\n

So was it worth me having to endure a messy house for a few hours?\u00a0 Absolutely!\u00a0 The girls had fun, they used their imaginations, were creative, and played well together.\u00a0 The problem is I don’t always “react” well when I see a mess someone in my family has created whether intentionally or unintentionally.\u00a0 Sometimes I am more worried about the mess they are making that I don’t allow them to just have fun.\u00a0 Yes, having a clean has is important but if the house is always perfect then a race track would never happen.<\/p>\n

It was worth a temporary messy house to hear the girls giggling together over a silly newspaper converted into a race track.\u00a0 Thankfully this time around I gave into just enjoying the fun moment and waited to clean up the mess later.\u00a0 What do you see – the mess or the race track?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After lunch one Sunday the girls were instructed to pick up the newspaper after they were finished looking at it while Jake and I worked for a few minutes on our schedules for the upcoming week.\u00a0 After about thirty minutes or so I came back into the kitchen and this is what I saw…..my first thought was “seriously, what a huge mess!”\u00a0 Instead of picking up the papers they had spread all of them over the kitchen and dining room floors.\u00a0 When asked as to why they didn’t pick “up” the newspaper they told me “Well we decided that it would make a great race track!” Although the mess was big I had to hold back from laughing.\u00a0 It was a pretty cool looking race track even if it was a mess. \u00a0\u00a0 They were quite proud of their “track”.\u00a0 So despite the fact the kitchen and dining room looked like they were carpeted with newspaper and ads I decided to let them enjoy it for the afternoon as long as they would pick it up before we left for Awana that evening. The silly part is that they had a blast with the newspaper.\u00a0 Who would have ever thought that a newspaper could provide so much entertainment.\u00a0 They rebuilt the roads several times, added new vehicles, used it as a walking track, and several other silly things all in that one afternoon.\u00a0 In a matter of hours that newspaper got more love and provided more entertainment then all the other newspapers we have ever received put together.\u00a0 And the best part, when asked to pick it up (the second time) the girls did it happily and in a matter of a couple of minutes. So was it worth me having to endure a messy house for a few hours?\u00a0 Absolutely!\u00a0 The girls had fun, they used their imaginations, were creative, and played well together.\u00a0 The problem is I don’t always “react” well when I see a mess someone in my family has created whether intentionally or unintentionally.\u00a0 Sometimes I am more worried about the mess they are making that I don’t allow them to just have fun.\u00a0 Yes, having a clean has is important but if the house is always perfect then a race track would never happen. It was worth a temporary messy house to hear the girls giggling together over a silly newspaper converted into a race track.\u00a0 Thankfully this time around I gave into just enjoying the fun moment and waited to clean up the mess later.\u00a0 What do you see – the mess or the race track?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,65,67,11,71,16,76,25,29,43],"tags":[564,1570,2405,2531,2891,4981,5196,5239,7195,10132,10540,11827,15501,16032,16033,16035,16859,16860,18123,18142,18557,18684,19140,19554,22134,22950,22951,24838,25742,25905],"class_list":["post-11431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-activities","category-family","category-family-activities","category-family-fun-2","category-heart-reflections","category-kids","category-life-lessons","category-raising-multiples","category-rewards","category-twins","tag-a-mess-or-a-race-track","tag-awana","tag-big-mess","tag-blast-with-the-newspaper","tag-book-tunnels","tag-cool-race-track","tag-creating-a-craft-out-of-the-newspaper","tag-creative-kids","tag-entertainment-for-the-kids","tag-getting-creative","tag-going-to-awana","tag-hold-back-from-laughing","tag-making-a-race-track-out-of-a-newspaper","tag-messy-dining-room","tag-messy-house","tag-messy-kitchen","tag-newspaper-fun","tag-newspaper-providing-entertainment","tag-pick-up-the-newspaper","tag-picking-up-the-mess","tag-pots-and-pans","tag-pretty-big-mess","tag-race-track-for-the-cars","tag-recycling-the-newspaper","tag-source-of-entertainment","tag-sunday-afternoon","tag-sunday-afternoon-activity","tag-using-their-imaginations","tag-what-do-you-see","tag-when-the-kids-dont-pick-up-the-newspaper"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcnfwQ-2Yn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}