Friday, November 19, 2010

Cleaning!!!

Friday confessional with Glamazon.  I promise she will make you laugh.
 
I hate cleaning.
My mom used to tell me she didn't want to force me to clean. She wanted me to want to.
I'm 38 and still waiting to want to.
When I'm pregnant, I'm too sick, tired and huge to clean.
When I have a baby, the baby is too demanding to find the time to clean.
So if I'm pregnant or nursing I can't clean.
Out of my 15 years of being a Mom I couldn't clean for 10 years of that.
My kids seem to be the biggest excuse for not cleaning.
My kids believe the reason I have kids is to save money on maids.
Really, without the kids, I wouldn't need a maid.
It's amazing what a child can do in a matter of seconds.
In the time it takes Michael Phelps to win a gold medal my kids can...
Take all contents of their backpacks and spread them out all over the floor
and lose their homework.
They can take their shoes and socks off and loose one in the front room under the couch and the other at the bottom of a toy box that I won't find for three months.
They can dirty every cup in the cupboard
and empty all the toys in the closet
including 5,000 little Lego's.
I've started taking pictures of my house when it is clean so I have proof it was clean before the kids got home.
The other day the house was spotless.
So I took pictures and then left the house.
I was hoping no one would open the oven.
Because that's were I had hidden the dirty pans that I didn't have time to get to.
So I was actually excited to take an after picture when they got home.
When I got home the kids were in shock that the house looked so good that it was still clean.
They were just walking around afraid to touch anything,
and they just kept saying the house looks amazing!!
The house looks really clean mom!!
The house looks really good!!!
I think the last time my house was completely clean was sometime in 2003.

4 comments:

  1. ahahahahahahahahahaha

    Clean is so totally lame! I stayed to late at book club last night and I really wanted to sleep this morning but my kitchen smelled sooooo bad I gagged every time I walked in the stupid room! It was sooo bad!

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  2. Holy moly, you are such an awesome writer! Sigh, i totally relate...to it ALL! Thanks for playing!

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  3. I know!! I only have one so far and between her and my husband, my house can go from clean to a wreck in 60 seconds.

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  4. Too funny!! I had a woman in my ward in LA with three young kids, a calling in the RS Pres, who's house was ALWAYS immaculate. One day I complained about her perfectness to a mutual friend who looked at me, shook her head and said: she has a cleaning lady in once a week. So now, instead of thinking she's a show off for a clean house, I think she's a RICH show off!! ;oP

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