Day 5 of 27
I am thankful for a clean house!
Monday is cleaning day here at the seriously house.
I clean like freaking Cinderella all day and get no help from cute little talking birds and mice!
When I am finished I feel accomplished and dead dog tired! I love the look and smell of a clean house but I'll be honest, I much prefer coming home to a clean house after a day of shopping and lunch with the girls but those long days are long gone! **insert heavy this economy suck sigh here**
I hate when 10 minutes after I put the cleaning basket away it doesn't look like I did a darned thing! The dogs have run through the sandbox and come in with a pound of sand on their paws and strewn it all over my clean floors. Then because they're so hot and tired from being outside they go get a drink and walk across the freshly mopped floors with water dripping from their mouths. The girls come home from school and unpack their backpacks, get a snack leaving crumbs on the counter and start homework. So now there's backpacks, lunchboxes, papers, folders, pencils and eraser crumbs all over the kitchen. Babe comes home from work and I swear he thinks I'm a big fat liar when I tell him I cleaned all day!
But you know what? I think I'm more thankful for the mess than the clean. Not when I'm in the middle of it of course but when I sit back and reflect on why it's a mess.
Yes, I cleaned all day but I'm thankful to have a house to clean!
Yes, my dogs are a bunch of crazy mess makers but I love them all and the fact that they get excited to see me walk through the door after a trip to the mailbox warms my heart!
Yes, my girls have made a mess and are arguing but at least they're coming home after school and not running the streets!
Yes, Babe may question {never out loud he so knows better} if I really cleaned all day but at least he's coming home to his family after work and not stopping off for a "drink with the guys".
I'm thankful that I get to clean my mess because the mess is proof that I have all I really need!
Happy Thursday Y'all!
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6 comments:
what a great way to look at it! this is my favorite 27 days of thankful post yet!
I used to pick Mondays as cleaning day too, but boy was it exhausting to clean all dang day! So now I assign certain chores for each day, only drawback is that the house is never sparkling all at the same time! But what a great way to be thankful for the mess!
I know how you feel! I have a plaque someone gave me that says...
The house was clean yesterday - sorry you missed it.
And another...
This home is protected by dust bunnies.
I just finished cleaning my house today and I love your attitude about it- just be thankful for a house to clean!!!
~Becca
wanna come over and help me now?! no...ok...I'll just put on the TV music channel that plays chirping birds and happy mice...that'll do...right?!
Love this post...it really puts it all into perspective.
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