Being a mommy is more than picking up toys and washing dishes... it's more than fixing their meals and giving baths. 

Being a mommy is much like being a lover, you do these things BECAUSE you love them, not because you're supposed to do them to be a good mommy...

So on the days where the laundry piles, where the babies are sick, where the kitchen drips with yesterdays grease, and the house smells like a waste can full of diapers- you aren't a bad mommy. Yes, the house needs to be cleaned, but the same love that compels us to keep things tidy, also compels us to lay down our goals for the needs of those we love. Sometimes the need IS clean socks for your husband who is having a hard day at work. Sometimes it's a freshly scrubbed kitchen or a vacuumed living room for him to come home to. And some days it might even be a 5 course meal! ... but there are days where it is holding your baby and reading to your toddler, because our goal, after all, is love. 

So even if your goal today isn't roses and chocolates all around (or if your great endeavor at valentines with toddlers results in messy smiles and pricked fingers), make it your goal to love; and in loving, you will meet their needs, and they will know they have the very, very best mommy the earth has known.