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I mentioned in my birthday post that I had my house clean and the laundry done. These scenerio happens too rarely. Like months apart. So now its all clean I feel myself fighting to keep in clean. To stay on top of it all. The very first night of my clean bathroom I discovered the twins locked in the bathroom, "going potty". I nearly broke down the door to find, five paper cups filled with Mr. Bubble and being filled with water and hot pink on my new white carpets. Next day it was the twins and bathroom again and the a bar of soap being wet and wiped all over the bathroom. Then there is just the basic fights. Doing laundry like mad to make the baskets not be full again. The floor that was mopped covered in rain wet foot prints. The morning cereal that ends up in every room of my house. Rinsing the bathtub and wiping it out after baths. Wiping everything with lysol wipes constantly. The toothpaste that is stuck getting unstuck nightly. A wet bed. Am I really doing myself any favors here trying to keep it clean or am I just making myself more mad, you decide?
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I don't know Laura. That's just hard...and I am TERRIBLE at keeping a clean house. Trust me, you would feel so SO much better about things if you saw my house right now.
I just did the dishes and I STILL can't find more than four forks. What's up with that?
aww - you sound like me! I drive myself and my family crazy with " don't touch that - I just cleaned"
It is a constant battle..I so wish it could all get clean at once...and stay clean.
p.s Happy belated birthday!
I do just the important stuff and let the rest slide. When I have company I do a large cleaning but the rest of the time we live in squalor...yeah, I wouldn't eat off my floors.
Here's hoping you get sometime to read a book and relax.
I know what you mean. There are days when I just get the bathroom clean and then Ryan uses it, and it makes me mad.
People tell me that one day the messes will be gone and I will miss it.....That seems imposible to me right now.
♥ I feel for you I honestly do!!! I just found Liza and Lane with Nail Polish!!! errrr....
It is a constant battle, I seriously could drive myself crazy, because I am so OCD! I choose to let the little things go and I am working on loosening up a bit, baby steps...baby steps! My mom always told me to choose my battles wisely and I always try to keep that in mind.
Obviously some days are worse than others. I am right there with you. My mom always tells me that one day wen our kids are gone I will wish there were more messes to clean up. I know its hard to rationalize that now when we spend hours scrubbing our bathroom to find it ruined 20 minutes later. A mommy's job is never done. There will always be more laundry, dirty floors, rings in our bath tubs and cheerios where cheerios should never be.
I try to let the small stuff slide for a few extra days. I figure it's not gonna be any harder to wipe out a bath tub after a week than after a day or two. Unless there is a major mishap of course :) Which with twins happens almost daily. I'm sorry you are having one of the more difficult weeks. I hope you can find a happy medium.
Maintain! Maintain! Why is that so difficult? I swear I can spend a whole 8 hours cleaning, vacuuming, and scrubbing and the next day you'd think a tornado hit! It makes me crazy!
Ahhh, being the mother of 4 now teenagers, I can tell you, things have not change much! (smile)
Their clothes seem to stick to the floor, the empty kitchen sink seems to fill up magically overnight with dirty dishes from out of nowhere, shaving cream in the sink along with blobs of toothpaste, I could go on...(smile) It is really hard to imagine that someday I will actually miss it? (tee hee!)
OK, I was just having a conversation with myself. About how I really do enjoy my children so much. And I would love to do crafts, and play and dress up and take pictures. But it's this dang housework that keeps sucking me away, making me feel overwhelmed and generally not enjoying anything. So then I'm thinking, maybe I should just ditch the whole housework thing and just live. Because really nobody cares about the house being clean and tidy except for me. We'll see how long this lasts...............
UGH...it sounds like you do an AMAZING job of keeping your house orderly. I am with Cecily. You would feel much better if you came over and saw my house!
I have this same constant battle. This week I have just kept up with laundry and the kitchen - a job in itself. Since we're having company Fri-Sunday, I'm saving the hard core cleaning for Friday...will be an all day ordeal and I'll be pooped. Maybe it will at least be clean when everyone gets here?
Oh Luaura...it's never ending isn't it? I was talking to my friend about it, and sometimes we just need to cut ourselves some slack....because I think I could clean 24/7..and always have something else to clean.
yeah that is the question we as mothers are constantly! Soon they will be big and they can do the cleaning up!
Little rascals is all I have to say. I think as a mom we all feel that frustration. The twins just think of the caziest things to make mess! I am so sorry.
I feel your pain!
I feel your pain!
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