So I used to be a give it your all kind of gal. Never stop doing something until you completed the task; sometimes bordering on anal/OCD about certain things. This would still be my goal but times have changed! Our house is often not the cleanest. I used to be able to keep it tidy, at least things in their place and clutter free. I'm not even succeeding at that now.
I really want to a better job at this (plus we are having guests over this Saturday night!!) But having two active boys doesn't make this easy. I don't have long stretches of time to clean. And once they are in bed for the night, I usually am too tired/no energy to clean or just plain don't feel like it! So just do a little at a time right? Exactly. It has now taken me 3 days to clean our two bathrooms and I still haven't cleaned the floors! (I ran out of bathroom cleaner so I still haven't cleaned the boys bath tub either.) Today I did some dusting and started cleaning windows ~ but I ran out of paper towels. As hard as I try, still not completing the task.
I am ok with this. I don't really enjoy cleaning anyways! However a clean house I do enjoy. But I also enjoy spending time with the boys. This morning we walked our neighborhood with two other women, their children and their dogs. (We were told the parade was 3 days ago.) Then we went to McDonald's to eat/play at their indoor play area with a family down the road from us. Chad met us there too. This post has taken me over an hour to complete. I have stopped to help Andrew with an "art project", get Carson up from his nap, take clothes out of the dryer and fold/hang them up, (Carson was being very helpful ~ allowing me to get one or two things out of the dryer before he would shut the dryer door over and over again!) and given the boys a snack. Now I need to get started on supper....cleaning the windows & floors another day. I would not trade this business, interruptions for anything.
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I just had to make a comment on this, because I totally understand what you mean! When I get home after work, my evenings are swept up in feeding Elena, playing, bathing, putting to bed, and then I have 0 energy for anything else. My husband and I get up between 4:30 and 5 a.m. everyday, so we try to make it to bed by 10 every night. On the weekends I am so excited to spend whole days with her, it is hard to squeeze cleaning into her short naps. I just keep saying to myself in a few years when she is older it will get easier... :)
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