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The Kind of Mom I Would Love To Be - Throwback Thursday #8


When I was a kid I LOVED to get muddy.  As evidenced by the pictures, my friend and I would literally SIT in mud puddles, and intentionally cover our whole bodies in mud.  I don't know why it was so fun to me, but it was.  Now I wear gloves to keep my hands clean when I garden...
Anyways, my mom was a great sport about it, on a regular basis we would come in, absolutely filthy, and she would just laugh, take a picture, and have us go clean up.  Sometimes in the summer she would "make" us hose off before coming in, but in the summer that is fun, not torture.  I am not sure I will ever be as relaxed about it as my mom.  

See I love kids, and I am not a neat freak, but I do try to avoid difficult to clean messes.  For instance, no child in my care will ever have a "messy spaghetti face" picture.  Because if I give them something messy, I spoon feed it to them until they have proved themselves capable of using a spoon properly with non-messy things like beans.  I don't know why the messes bother me, and I wish they didn't so I could be a little more laid back and let them enjoy getting messy/dirty/covered in food, but they clean-up of something that could easily of been avoided is just irritating to me. 

I wouldn't get my kids in trouble for coming inside looking like this (unless they went on my carpet), but I wouldn't encourage it either.  I'm just a stick in the mud (pun not intended until I typed it, then I decided to keep it)

 

Did you mom let you take outdoor mud baths?  Do you let your kids?
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