Housework!

My must do's everyday is dish's and washing and cooking if I don't get the other stuff done its ok i have a set house work day where I do the big clean each week and that is it rest of hte time i spend with my little boy.

I'd love to have a really clean place but right now housework is a swear word! We keep the place fairly tidy but honestly I'm too tired for much else and B is doing lots of overtime....I'm hoping the nesting bug will kick in soon! So far the will is there but not the energy.

I have about 3 loads of washing sitting on my chair to fold, but I have no energy to fold them. The floors need vacuuming and I think there is a few dishes to do. But now I am studying fulltime I think DH needs to pick up some of the slack.

Oh, and those of you without 7 to 12 year old helpers - if you have toddlers, involve them with day-to-day stuff as you go. I sing songs or chirp on about how much fun tidying up around the house is so that they think they want to join in...that way, when they're 10.....

And more importantly, mess is fine. Filth is a different story. Provided your house is safe and there isn't mould dripping down from the ceilings, a few dishes on the bench and washing on the couch isn't going to hurt anyone. In fact, dive-bombing and rolling through clean washing is great fun for a toddler...and those clean sheets make great tents between the couches...spending time with your kids and staying sane are much better things to do.

I was just remembering how when Alex was first born I was really paranoid about doing my housework. I thought that if someone came around and the house wasn't imaculate they would think I was a terrible mother. I think I got over that when Alex was about 3 months old, when I realised no one actually cared how my house looked!

my house is usually tidy, but definately not clean
the dishes are always loaded into the dishwasher (yay for them!) and stuff is put away, apart from what jack's playing with.
but...we have a golden retriever who is an inside dog, needless to say i SHOULD vacuum every other day. if we had a half decent vacuum cleaner it wouldn't be such a mission!
jack is in daycare 2 mornings a week, one of those days i spend cleaning my sis's partners place so the last thing i want to do on my only morning of me time is housework!
oh well, such is life.

I live in fear of getting visitors!! If I know someone is going to visit then that makes me the clean the house otherwise its dishes and washing on a daily basis and thats it. Could get a cleaner but I'd be one of those people that would tidy up before they came. Most times I'm ok with our mess but every so often it annoys me so much that I do a big clean. Rex is the same so that takes the pressure off

we always have a panick when someone says they are going to come over and have to race around cleaning up. My aim after having Addy though is to get myself organised and try to become a yummy mummy hehe like that is going to happen. But I can go a day and not have showered or gotten out of my trackies and feel so embarassed if someone comes to the door or I run into anyone while Im out so now I have to get up, shower, actually put makeup on even if it is just tinted moisturiser and lip gloss and I can not wear scruffy trackies. Then I get Kobe breakfast and while he is eating I tidy the kitchen and put on some washing. i must say i do feel so much better for it, much more motivated. Today after all that I went for an hour walk with the kids, cleaned out thier draws, hung Kobes toy hammock, did some baking, 3 loads of washing and made a roast for tea tht was ready when hubby walked in teh door, how domesticated am I!
As for other housework we have two lounges and one is Kobes domain and is always a mess, thats cool though I just tidy it up at night cos I dont want him to have me breathing donw his neck all the time, the other lounge I try to keep tidy incase we have visitors. Im a bit like you Vanessa, our house is normally tidy but not nessecarily clean, trying to get hubby to do the shower, his one and only job is a mission, oh yeah I cleaned that today to so add tht to my list. Its a nightmare with our dog to keep things clean plus little handprints and scraps of food that someone in the family leaves everywhere!

Edited by my2angels

Housework? What's that? Quite happy to let it fall by the wayside, mind you, Roland has been wonderful about doing the basics that I would normally do...

Not too fussed really, if people have a problem with my untidy house then too bad LOL

Emeldee, i won't let my DH read your post as he'd probably do it and we've got two cats so he'd think it'd get done twice as fast...lol to be honest i don't know how i am going to manage when we finally get a little one - it's hard enough now tidying up after DH...