You know your house is dirty when…

Published by admin under In The Begining on July 24, 2009

You know your house is dirty when your 2 year old busts out her own wet wipes to start cleaning. I can’t remember the last time I did an all out deep cleaning of our home. That’s bad.Sure I’ve done dishes, and vacuumed occasionally just haven’t thoroughly cleaned in awhile.  I felt extremely guilty that Vera was sick of being surrounded by filth so much so that she started cleaning herself, and yet at the same time tempted replace that wet wipe with a Clorox wipe & just let her go to town. Is that wrong of me; especially when the only thing holding me back from doing so was not wanting her to handle the chemicals haha? Don’t answer that. I don’t know I just haven’t been motivated to do it. I’ve been enjoying playing with the girls, and watching all the little milestones that Naomi and Vera are reaching. Cleaning all the time takes away from their time. Even when I do regular maintenance stuff like vacuum they behave badly afterward from lack of attention/being put off to the side.  I know that’s not a good reason to neglect my duties. I do not even mess with the laundry anymore because of my fear of being locked out. I do it when Matthew is home. To him it must look like I do nothing, and I can’t say that I don’t disagree if we’re talking about household chores. A lot of my time is spent coloring, reading, doing puzzles, and walking Naomi around the house.  I guess their well-being is just not sole dependent on your attention. Obviously a clean surrounding is just as important otherwise Vera wouldn’t be wiping everything down herself haha. I guess that will have be motivation enough. Plus my mother and sister will be visiting from Illinois next week. I’m really excited about them coming, and they probably wouldn’t want to stay in my dusty dirty home either haha. Looks like I will be cleaning all weekend. That and I have to put some of Naomi’s clothes in the space-saver bags & pull out the next size up. She’s only 8 months old and she’s wearing 12 months. It’s makes me sad doing that because you can’t deny that they are getting bigger when the evidence is right in front of you. I’m all about denial. That’s probably why the house still hasn’t been cleaned haha.