The Other Day, a friend of mine needed to escape her house with her girls for a little while so asked if she could come by and let the girls play together. We happily obliged but not without the warning that I was still in my pjs and the house was a mess. Cue the whirlwind of cleaning. All toys picked up, carpet vacuumed, laundry baskets taken up stairs, kitchen floor swept, table wiped off, dishes haphazardly thrown in the dishwasher...you know the drill.
The Doorbell Rang, and I felt the house was somewhat presentable. When my friend walked in, she said, 'you house doesn't look bad at all!' That's when I let me little secret out. I said, 'I have never cleaned that fast in my life!' That started a whole conversation about how we need to keep things more real. We got to talking about how people post pictures on their blogs of house and kids and sometimes you look at them and you say to yourself, 'are you really able to keep your family room looking that nice all the time?' or 'how do you get your kid's clothes to stay that clean all day?' or 'did you creatively crop that picture?'
Well, In The Spirit of keeping things real, I thought I would post about what I did today. When it comes to my housekeeping, I'm not great. In fact, I pretty much suck! But whenever I know that people are coming by, I always make sure that they places they see are as well cleaned as possible (or that time allows). But 90% of the time, people aren't coming over to see our master bedroom so I tend to neglect it. It's a horrible way to live, but I do. I pretty much avoid straightening and cleaning it at all costs. Well, I tackled it today and I'm pretty pleased to announce that it's almost done. Not all the way done though...my kids didn't make it very easy today and I had a sewing project that I wanted to post. But I made a great head way. Here are some pictures of the things that have been dumped and haven't their way all the way home until today.
Carson's suitcase from his business trip. He still hasn't unpacked yet. :)
A pile of shoes that came from the over-flowing shoe basket downstairs...I needed to move them about ten more feet to our closet....
A pile of stash fabric and sewing projects conveniently dropped next to my sewing desk....too bad the sewing machine is set up down stairs. And of course with a diaper thrown in for good measure!
2 comments:
I desperatley need to work on my office. It's funny, I can keep almost every room clean except the office! It makes me nuts. I think it is all in how well things are organized so they are easily able to be put away back into their place. And it's a matter of making sure everything has a place! I need to make sure I take the extra 20 seconds it takes each time I put something away to make sure it is put away right. For instance, I sent Andy with a huge grocery lis the other night. Literally, every counter in my kitchen was covered. I couldn't do the sorting/putting away then because I was working on some other stuff and Andy started putting things away. I made him stop because I wanted it put away right. It took about 36 hours before I oculd get to the groceries so on my counter they sat. Buit you know what? They are put away so perfectly now - all things rotated, etc. That makes me happy!
Good for you for tackling the bedroom. Don't forget, Mer and I offered to do that for you 2 months ago, you missed that chance!
And there are a handful of people who's houses are always clean, and they don't have a dump room either. I have some very good friends like that, I wish I was one of those people, that is amazing to me.
Meghan, I LOVE this post, Thanks for keeping it real...
Your friend through piles of laundry and caked crackers on the floor, jaime :)
ps. I owe you one, stop by anytime and I guarantee a mess of some sort!
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