the sara ochs blog

Before I even got married or had babies I was expert. I thought I knew what was what. I remember being in the nursery of my old church and being totally flabbergasted to find out that some of the mothers I knew DID NOT BATHE THEIR CHILDREN EVERY SINGLE DAY. I was shocked. I was appalled. How could you not bathe children every day? It could’t take THAT long or be THAT much trouble. I think I might have said that it was not prairie days anymore and that children should be washed every day. 

I am truly sorry for that statement now. Because guess what? I do not always bathe my own sweet monkeys every single day. Mostly I do, but sometimes I do NOT. On days when it is 20 degrees outside and the only physical activity the babies have is walking from the house to the car to the school and back again and no one actually breaks a sweat or touched anything dirty, sometimes I skip the bath routine. I always change their unmentionables and put on clean jammies and lotion tiny bodies and wash hands and faces and brush teeth. That is non-negotiabale. And never more than a day does between baths or showers, in case you wondered. 

I do what works for us. My most sincere and heartfelt apologies go out to Jilma Rudd, Jessica Mader, and Pamela Rix. Laugh all you want at my prairie comment and know that I am raising little rednecks of my own now. 

Keep it clean, y’all.