Monday, December 28, 2009

Nesting behavior

Ok...so, as most of you know, I never have/never will be the world best housekeeper. I have never been able to keep my house very clean for very long...even before I had children. I HATE house work, but I love to complain about how messy my house is.

Well, over the last week I have been on this kick to get/keep the house clean. It seems like every day I'm home I'm trying to clean another part of the house. On Wednesday last week (thank you Becky for stopping by) this nesting like behavior started with picking up the living room area. I cleaned months worth of CRAP off my couch, and to my surprise...my couch was actually easy to sleep/relax on. Normally we have just pushed the crap to one end or the other, sat on a corner, or lay on the floor. When I wanted to lay down I just snuck away with one of the kids to my room.

When I got home from being stranded at the hospital on Friday evening (after the kids were in bed) I had this uncontrollable urge to clean something. I was gone for little over 24hours and my house was TRASHED!!! I know opening presents and all was going to complicate my cleaning efforts, but I NEVER anticipated it staying that way all day long. In the end I ended up cleaning the kitchen and living room, and today (Monday) I plan on getting the dining room clean.

Maybe it is the fact that I have Bunco this month at my house. I always feel so bad when I have people from work over to my house b/c many of us are in the same situation. We all have families and most of us work full-time, and when I go to their houses for Bunco...their houses are immaculate!!! It's not like all they do is work, take care of the kids, and clean. How do these SUPER WOMEN find time to clean? I wonder if their husbands are the reasons why.

Sorry, Warren, but dude...I never in my life thought there was a more messier person to live with. Good God! That must be why we get along so well. We both can't stand to clean, but we LOVE to piss and moan about how messy the house is. We both covet how clean our friends' houses are when we go to visit, and pray and wish on our lucky stars for a house keeper. Dude that would be the life! Oh well, I guess we were meant to try and break the chain of filth with our children!

Well, now that I've finally lulled both the kids back to sleep...I think it is time for me to lull myself back to dreamland. Goodness...I just wish I could nip this headache in the butt. I had it for most of the day yesterday, but I figured it was due to the lack of sleep over the last few days. Oh well...such is the life of a mommy!

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