Sometimes cleaning is just an overwhelming daunting task. Especially when you have four little people (monsters), one big kid (my husband), and a four legged hairy creature (the dog) making messes faster than you can clean them up most days. I seem to get one area of the house done, clean and organized, then everywhere else in the house looks like a tornado went through it. In the case of my girls rooms...it was a tornado with glitter....yes I said glitter...I would want to smack the person that bought the glitter...then the thought dawns on me...oh yeah...that was me :( The hubby and I decided to take on the task of cleaning up the glitter tornado that left a mess in the girls room today. I must admit I was pretty pessimistic when the battle started early this afternoon....but the end approached much quicker than I first thought. One huge black garbage, lots of bins being filled, a donate box being made, sheets being changed all made the clean up a success. I kinda wish that when children are born that they are just born with that keen sense of organization...and cleanliness... and maybe some are...and God just skipped over my children ;) I think the definition of the clean that they have currently been given is wrong...really wrong. This is their definition: Clean; to leave garbage on the floor, to throw things in every possible place that is doesn't belong, to color on walls, to leave dirty clothes on the floor, and to never under any circumstances put anything away.
Here is the real definition of clean:
CLEAN-
adjective
1.
free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on aclean dress.
2.
free from foreign or extraneous matter: clean sand.
3.
free from pollution; unadulterated; pure: clean air; cleanwater.
4.
habitually free of dirt: Cats are considered clean animals.
5.
characterized by a fresh, wholesome quality: the clean smellof pine.
As you can see these two definitions are not really on the same page...in the same book...or on the same planet! However I must admit that it does have to be partly blamed on me and my hubby. We don't keep up on the kids to constantly be picking up there messes...I guess you could say we get tired and lazy too....maybe someday soon we can find a happy meeting place with these little destructive monsters. Maybe in 18 or so years I can have things stay cleaned for more than a few days....then again when that happens I will probably be missing the messes! Hope a glitter tornado isn't in your forecast...but if it is...just take it one sparkle at a time ;) Enjoy your coffee!
