DO NOT JUDGE A MOTHER
When a mother is running late in the morning, you can be sure that she has already had a full day. Murphy's Law applies: if something can go wrong, it will. And it's safe to assume that things have been going wrong since the moment she opened her eyes. If a mother's house is messy, just assume that she is constantly picking up after her beautiful little tornadoes who follow behind her, scattering things about. And as soon as she cleans up the milk someone spilled, another child runs off with the jelly, leaving behind stickiness that seems to last for days. If her sink is full of dishes, assume that most of them accumulated just this morning (even when it's not the case). Because, of course, the kids didn't like the first few things they begged for, so she's left with a sink full of dishes by breakfast. If the laundry covers the floor, I bet it has already been washed and maybe even folded. Folded laundry, if you don't know this yet, is more valuable than an...