seeing clearly

Truth be told, my kids hate to help clean. I have this idea that we should all happily work together to get our house clean and then enjoy each other's company. That's not at all what it ever looks like at my house. But there is one thing that they do seem to like to do. They regularly clean the bathroom mirrors. Unfortunately they use things like soap and toilet paper to get thejob done. Sometimes they use baby wipes. Every once in awhile they make up a concoction of toothpaste, hair gel and baking soda to use. It doesn't matter what they use, the mirror is streaked, cloudy and near useless. I kind of figure that if you can see the streaks, it's just confirmation that the mirror has indeed been cleaned, unlike the windows which are smeared with dog noses and from little lips pressed against the glass and breathed onto so that they can see their lip prints. Also hard to see through.

So very often, almost as often as my kids "wash" the mirror, my memories get clouded over by stains and streaks. I can't see them clearly.

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