Travis walked in the door on Friday and I yelled to him to take his work boots off because the floors were clean. I heard him say as he was walking in, "Oh, has somebody been doing a little cleaning?".
"Yes," I said "But it sure wasn't me!".
"What??...Oh, did you have Sam come and clean?"
"Yep!"
"Good! Our house was disgusting!"
So, he ended up not being mad at all! Which was nice because I wanted to enjoy the cleanliness without having to justify it to a poopy hubby:) I'm sure that I will be better at keeping my house clean after I have another kid and become a SAHM. But who knows, maybe I'll keep Sam cleaning for as long as he is willing to do it! I really really really hate to clean. I HATE the smell of Windex and toilet bowl cleaner. Don't get me wrong, I don't enjoy having my house dirty and I'm good at maintaining cleanliness (Travis on the other hand is a messy messy boy) but I'm just one of those people who wants someone else to clean my house and I'm not ashamed to say it. I think it goes back to my childhood. Most of you who know me know that I was pretty much a cleaning slave growing up. Especially after my sister Sarah and step-sister Amber moved out. I was responsible for cleaning EVERYTHING!! Including (and most of these were weekly, if not twice a week chores):
vacuuming the whole house
cleaning the kitchen and doing the dishes every night(which also included removing all of the burners from the stove and cleaning them)
taking out the garbage
mowing and weed whacking the lawn
trimming the tree in our front yard (this was only once a year of course)
cleaning the pool and keeping the chemicals for the pool in check
cleaning BOTH bathrooms (which I always found incredibly disgusting to have to clean my parents bathroom because...eww...I was cleaning up after THEIR poo & pee & pubes & body scum!!)
scrubbing the kitchen floor on my hands and knees with ammonia & water because Gail thought that it was more thorough than using a mop (same with the bathroom floors)
cleaning all SEVEN panes of the sliding glass doors inside and out(not with Windex and paper towels or newspaper. No, I had to use a mixture of vinegar & water with a sponge and then use a squeegee to wipe it off, making sure that I didn't leave any streaks on the doors)
spraying off the cool decking around the pool
brooming off the front step and walkway
trimming the bushes in front of the house
dusting and Windexing all of the furniture including all of the pictures and mirrors throughout the house
I'm sure there are some other random chores I'm forgetting. Wow!! Was that cathartic or what? Anyway, as you can read, I have had my share of the cleaning duties and although I know that now that I am an adult and I am responsible for keeping my own house clean, I choose to have someone else do it for me. Gail had me, so why can't I have Sam?? :) At least I pay him for all the cleaning he does and he doesn't even come close to doing all of what I had to do. So, enough of my justifications. I don't feel guilty about it AT ALL. And for those of you who have kids who hate to do chores, just clue them in to how bad it really could be:)
Summary- My house is clean from top to bottom and I love it.
Peace out and word to your mom.
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