![]() The reason so many lie is because of influencers like Kondo. The only difference is some parents are still lying, while others have given up even trying to pretend. It’s gratifying beyond belief to know that the Queen of Minimalism herself, Marie Kondo, is in the same boat now that she’s had three children. How can I fold and put away laundry when my 18-month old goes fishing in toilets as soon as our backs are turned? How can I scrub my kitchen floor if all I do in that room is slice apples and open granola bar wrappers? I barely have time to think, let alone declutter. It’s also the lack of time to do anything resembling what I call “life admin.” It’s not just because one of my children has hoarder tendencies. It’s not just their stuff (there is so much stuff). I can never defeat the mess that comes with having children. Marie Kondo’s digital organization tipsĪll that is to say, I’m one of those mothers that Marie Kondo built her career trying to convert.A fitting story for how a sixth child came to be named. So that’s what we did and how we chose his name. “Let’s just name him what you wrote down. ![]() Having given birth to a 10-pound baby moments earlier, I just sighed. Maybe it was with the paperwork that I had already filled out. Our printer was out of ink, and the new cartridge was … somewhere. Problem was, he wrote a different first name than what we had decided on. Thankfully, she had an extra copy and my husband filled out the forms again. ![]() I guess you haven’t cleaned up in a year and a half, huh?” I handed it to her, she leafed through the papers, and then laughed and said, “This is from the last baby (born in the summer of 2021). I looked around the cluttered dressers in our bedroom until I found the stack of paperwork. When my midwife came for the home birth last month, she asked for the birth certificate forms we had filled out several weeks earlier. Since then, we’ve had yet another baby, and I’m sorry to say that our house is in the same sorry state of disarray and disorganization. I didn’t even know the aspirator was on the front steps until that article was published. ![]() The couple have more important things to worry about than whether the baby’s nasal aspirator is on the front steps, and whether there’s room to fit a drinking glass on the coffee table.” People who’ve delivered a baby in a car know that life can emerge and thrive in circumstances that aren’t sterile. That same article went on to say, “Married for 10 years, the Mandels are comfortable with mess. I am a famously cluttered person whose home was once described as “the domestic expression of chaos theory, the idea that astounding disorder can exist within an ordered structure of patterns and laws.” If you were on social media over the weekend, you likely saw this headline gleefully shared by parents: “Marie Kondo admits she’s ‘kind of given up’ on tidying up after having 3 kids.” ![]()
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