We have a small home, which makes my life a whole lot easier... No stairs to walk up and down with laundry. Our house is not covered in carpet, so vacuuming is a very minimal.
The only part that drives me crazy is that we have our two wonderful, hairy dogs. It takes about one day and we have dust (hair) balls in corners.
My day begins every morning with cleaning the floors, since I have a crawling machine who thinks everything on the floor is breakfast, lunch and dinner. I do the dishes and tidy up the place for the day. I do laundry, if there is any. Once a week the mop comes out and the vacuum comes out about every three to four days.
The thing is - I do this in the morning. I am a morning person. Our little family is usually up by 5:30 am on the weekdays. If my morning is disrupted then the house doesn't get the much needed attention and it turns into a disaster area for the next day cleaning extravaganza.
One might say, 'do it at night'... There are 3 reasons why I don't clean the house at night:
1: My husband and I love to spend time with each other when he gets home. The last thing we want to do is have a cleaning fest every time.
2: I am usually too exhausted to even pick up a fork let alone a broom.
3: My feet and knees are usually killing me (what is up with the pain in the knees and feet???), from rocking William standing up (since he can't stand it when I sit to rock him) to crawling around on my knees all day chasing him. Love doing these thing for him and more. I just find it a tad strange that I don't notice my pain until he has hit the pillow for the night - adrenaline...
So, I take the evening to relax with my fabulous, hard working husband. And enjoy every moment without a care in the world for the mess that is accumulating. Especially since it will be done by 6:30 am the next morning - why worry about it when I am spending some quality time with my hubby??
Anyway, the point I am getting at is last week was my first day back at work. Only one full day, but it was significant... In the am I didn't have time to clean the house, so I came home to an extremely messy house (my husband had also been able to add to it for a few hours before I got home...).
This week I decided that I needed to make a change - clean the house the night before I work and take a shower. What is nice about easing back into work is that I can test what works for our family. I am going back to work part time. Working about 1 to 2 days a week, depending on if my work needs me. When a full time position becomes available I will hopefully get it.
Well I have completed these tasks, unfortunately my right knee is hurting so bad I think I might have to dust off the Advil...
I am happy to know that tomorrow morning all I need to do is getting ready for work, and play with my little man - completely worth the knee pain ;0)
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