Not fair.

Okay, you know we all have days when you just look in the mirror and think to yourself, "life is so unfair." You know we have all thought this, well most of us have. I do know one or two people who think their life is just peachy-keen perfect, and they will tell ya all about it too. Oh yes! Anyways, I digress, back to me.

Today I had this thought run through my head. "life is so unfair."

Avery takes like 3 hot baths a day. Why don't I get 3 hot baths a day? I am lucky if I get a shower a day, let alone a bath a day.

She gets to use my Victoria Secret bubble bath, (because we are out of hers, and since my bath days are limited, I of course have tons!) She sits in there and just soaks her 2 year old troubles away. She sings songs, she splashes around. She plays with her sharks and whales. Basically she is living it up in MY claw tub.

I am starting to get jealous of this little babe, and I don't think this should be a normal feeling. I don't think I should be jealous of the life my two year old leads!!

Now some of you are wondering, why does she take so many baths?
Let me tell you.

Because she is a GENIUS!!! I am a little jealous of her mental capacity too.

She will make a HUGE mess all over herself. Like she will spill her cereal all over her. In the tub she goes. She will color herself with blue marker. In the tub she goes. She spreads mud all over her hair. In the tub she goes. Also, just randomly during the day, she will get bored and have this brilliant idea that a bath is just what she needs.

You see, she has fun making messes, gets put into a nice relaxing bath, and leaves me to clean up after her!!! GENIUS.PURE.GENIUS!

I think that as a good mother, I should start teaching her the ways of the world. That you can't just have the time of your life and make a mess and then hop in the tub. That bubble baths aren't the cure all. That you can't just stop your day to take a minute for yourself. There are rules, there are chores to do. Sometimes if you get all messy, you just have to stay that way for awhile, until you can take the time to wipe off. You can't just take 3 baths just because you are bored. Life is too busy to be bored. You can't just sing your life away in bubbles.

But then I thought,.......maybe a good mother would let her have the time of her life making a mess and then let her soak away in a tub. Maybe that good mother would even stop wiping the marker off the wall and go in and sit on the counter and sing songs with her. Maybe that good mother would have a nice warm towel, fresh from the dryer, waiting to wrap her up, when she was ready to get out and make another mess. And maybe, that good Mother, would even decide after her long day of cleaning up messes, she herself would take the time out of all of her things to do, and soak her troubles away in a nice hot bath,........ with bubbles and sharks and whales.........singing tunes from Wonder Pets and Hannah Montana.

So I decided that Avery will have plenty of time to think that life is "unfair." But for now, she is teaching me how fair it really is, if I just stop and let it be.