Get your clean on!
I spent 10 hours….yes 10….cleaning.
My husband said its the “nesting instinct” bug that comes with late pregnancy. I told him no, its because every room in the house needed to be cleaned….and theres a lot of rooms and only me doing the cleaning.
Sadly cleaning is a never ending job. Since we started working on the house theres been cleaning, paint brushes and tins to wash out, all our clothes to wash, allt he babys clothes and car seat cover and swing covers to wash. The dishes to do every day. The cabinets to scrub, 2 bathrooms, 3 bedrooms…you name it it needs something done to it.
However, as the house is more or less finished, I did a big clean up yesterday, which meant i spent a bunch of time on my hands and knees scrubbing paint off the kitchen floor, stains from inside the toilet bowl, and vaccuming every square inch of floor. Now that its all done I figured maybe I could spend today relaxing.
Ha ha ha. Joke of the week that one. I still need to wash all the baby bottles and feeding stuff. I have to bath 2 of 3 cats (i did Gin yesterday), and now that laundry is done I have a huge basket of clothes to fold and put away. And then of course start dinner for when Keith and Zimmer get home, and then wash the dihes from that afterwards. Somewhere in all this I need to take a nice hot shower because, now that the house is clean, I feel disgustingly dirty.
I have to admit Id rather go to work (but that could also be because i love my job and friends) then be a stay at home wife/mum-to-be. Still this time off work, and baby taking his time arriving, has given me the chance to get done all these things. So im grateful for that I guess.
So…my conclusion….I HATE CLEANING! BUT….its a necessary evil. If you dont clean, you live in a dirty, stinky place that you cant call home or even feel proud to invite people over to.