Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. —Phyllis Diller
How true is that? It doesn't mean you can not do it, unfortunately. There are just some things we have to do, clean the kitchen so we don't get food poisoning or attract vermin, clean the bathrooms and toilets so the mold doesn't make us sick, dust so us asthmatics don't keel over, vacuum to try and keep the carpets maintained. But there has to be a limit. When I was a kid I thought my mum loved cleaning, because that is all she did all weekend. My mum worked full time and therefore the weekend was her only time. But how do you balance this with actually spending some time with your children. I am afraid my husband and I are not very tidy people and therefore neither are our kids. We tend to let things go and then have to get stuck in and work hard at it to get it sorted again. This tendency has resisted all my attempts at changing it, chore rosters, both paper and electronic, routines, reminders, you name it I have tried it. So I need to ask myself if we can just keep going the way we have been or do I need to change it? I am trying to think laterally about how I could use the leave it - work at it hard tendency to my advantage. I have yet to come up with anything but I am trying in the hope that I can find some way of keeping our home livable and be able to spend some time with our children...
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