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Clean up with kids
You have to readjust the meaning of clean when you have little ones.
| Category: | Stories |
| Story: | It's not uncommon for me to find crusty handprints on the mirrored closet doors, mixing bowls in the yard half-filled with leaves and rollie pollies, military vehicles in the dish rack, or breakfast remnants fused to the kitchen table. By nature I am a clean freak, but with little kids all bets are off. The munchkins 'help' clean - wiping mirrors and tables, vacuuming baseboards, 'folding' laundry (which, by the way, seems to be a continual mountain range of clean and dirty piles that never seem to budge), but the tasks are never actually completed. Mirrors are streaked, tables are crusty, baseboards are dusty and once neat laundry stacks have been mowed over by pretend monster trucks.
My attempts at keeping a clean house are simply that - attempts. Don't get me wrong, with two little boys we have to clean the truck stop toilet every few days (seriously), but generally I live in the twilight zone between almost clean and almost a tornado. It's almost enough to make me insane, but I'm too tired to remember to be insane enough to whip out the toothbrush and scouring powder after the old bedtime routine.
Is my house tidy? You betcha.
Is my house clean? Ask me again when they leave for college.
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| Created: | June 2008 |
| Recommended for: | Any Parent, All Ages |
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