I have the bad habit of not cleaning when the kids are up. It's so hard. My toddler, for example, is the King of Helping Out, and wants to involve himself in anything I happen to be trying to do. My newborn just wants to be held.
But Caelin. The Helper. He loves to cook, mop, wash dishes, and clean windows. Never mind that he is only two and doesn't do so good a job....never mind that he is making more work for me, and half the time his brother is crying for food when Caelin desides to "help". He honestly thinks that his input is valuable. He really doesn't get that I could have it done better, faster, without him. He is heartbroken if I tell him to go away and play. So I clean while he is asleep.
Now, the house can nget in quite the disaray while I wait for the energy and time to clean my home. Most days I feel very accoplished if I can manage to get meals on the table and the kitchen mopped. Laundry gets washed, but seldom folded. When I do fold it, it never makes it upstairs, and I end up washing clean clothes because I can't remember what is dirty.
Tonight is a cleaning night. The kitchen is cleaned, the laundry folded. I am washing bedding, which smells like pee. Eew. The baby is sleeping, and I know tommorrow I will be exhausted. But at least the house will be cleaner. Maybe this time I can maintain, and in a week or two, when I have the energy, I will stay up again, and clean more of the house. Maybe, if I am really good about it, I can eventually get my whole house spotless, and even keep it that way.
Maybe.
But Caelin. The Helper. He loves to cook, mop, wash dishes, and clean windows. Never mind that he is only two and doesn't do so good a job....never mind that he is making more work for me, and half the time his brother is crying for food when Caelin desides to "help". He honestly thinks that his input is valuable. He really doesn't get that I could have it done better, faster, without him. He is heartbroken if I tell him to go away and play. So I clean while he is asleep.
Now, the house can nget in quite the disaray while I wait for the energy and time to clean my home. Most days I feel very accoplished if I can manage to get meals on the table and the kitchen mopped. Laundry gets washed, but seldom folded. When I do fold it, it never makes it upstairs, and I end up washing clean clothes because I can't remember what is dirty.
Tonight is a cleaning night. The kitchen is cleaned, the laundry folded. I am washing bedding, which smells like pee. Eew. The baby is sleeping, and I know tommorrow I will be exhausted. But at least the house will be cleaner. Maybe this time I can maintain, and in a week or two, when I have the energy, I will stay up again, and clean more of the house. Maybe, if I am really good about it, I can eventually get my whole house spotless, and even keep it that way.
Maybe.
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