I started looking into maid services. Even had one of them come to the house for a walk through and pricing. It is about what I expected: $85 bi-weely for just the upstairs. I would so love to just have someone come in and clean my house extremely well. But I am also totally capable of doing it myself. Financially I don't feel like we should do it. Even if we could I am not sure we should. It is just the last thing that I want to do so it is the last thing I ever get to. I just need to change that thinking.
This morning I woke up before Max and since I was in the bathroom I grabbed the clorex wipes and started cleaning off the counter top. That led to cleaning the mirror, wiping down the tub and cleaning the toilet. All of which took me maybe 20 minutes. None of it is difficult. I don't do a stellar job but it looks good and is clean.
If we were rolling in the dough I would be happy to pay someone to do a great job of cleaning and eliminate it from my forever list of things to do and use the time for other things. (I wouldn't be one of those women who cleans before the maid gets there.) But as it is I just need to stop being lazy and clean once in a while. It is not like I have to take one day and clean the entire house top to bottom. Just pick something to do everyday. The lazy remark might be out of line for myself, since I am crazy busy as it is. But I excuse a lot of the stuff I do such as reading and TV as "downtime" needed for relaxing. But if I am honest with myself, I also know how much of that is just me avoiding the things that need to be done. And truthfully, I really like it when the house is clean and would probably be able to relax a bit more in that environment.
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4 comments:
You're so honest with yourself!
I rather like living in denial, telling myself that I am just way to busy or that it is the kids fault. But then, just like you, the moments of sudden cleaning sneak up on me and even having 1 room a little bit better can make a big difference.
I think getting back in the groove of really keeping the house clean is just something that new moms deal with. And you finally get it all balanced out only to get pregnant again (which we all know leads to partial cleaning), and then you have to readjust things all over again when the baby comes.
I don't think it is laziness, so much as things that you just did before have to be scheduled now and it is an entire mindset change.
And remember the house you grew up in was absolutely spotless ever minute of every day :) This is still one of my biggest sore spots. Right now the only room I like to clean is my kitchen because it looks so great when it is done. I still find all kinds of excuses not to do the rest.
I hired a cleaning service for a bit when I was pregnant with the twins. I just couldn't do it, and the feeling of having things dirty drove me crazy.
I know what you mean. I am constantly putting cleaning things on the back burner, even though it's what I know needs to be done and would make me feel more comfortable....
There are just other things that come first, and that's the way life is with kids. *shrug*
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