Cleaning Bathrooms
After a LOVELY morning with my dear friends, Kara and I came home to take a nap. Well, she wanted to nap on my bed while I cleaned bathrooms. No problem.
I love doing chores:
* LAUNDRY and DISHES are everyday chores that feel small and keep the house looking clean to me. There's something therapeutic about those chores - you don't have to think while you do them. I love to pray while I do these chores. I've been doing them since I was a little girl, and I actually really like them.
* VACUUMING and SWEEPING makes me appreciate every single square inch of my house. The whole room looks so clean when it's freshly vacuumed. I don't go overboard and make straight lines, but I do love having a dirt free, hair free, sock fuzzy free floor.
* DEEP CLEANING I only do once or twice a year, and once I get started, I'm on a roll. I feel like I clean more than just behind my stove, it makes me start thinking about bringing all the junk I keep in my spiritual corners to the Lord. Sometimes he needs to use a brillo pad on me - it hurts at first, but I'm washed clean in the end!
* ORGANIZING makes me happy. This perfectionist adores organization. I've even passed it down to Kara. "Playing" these days means lining blocks up all in a row. She'll even do it according to color and tell me, look mommy, I o-gan-ized them!
I know I sound a little like a freak, but staying home and running the house is truly the calling for me. I love it. All that good stuff said, there are chores I hate. #1: mopping. I get all sweaty and water sloshes all around and it's a lot of effort for something that needs to be done again 7 days later. #2: ironing. I'm insanely bad at it. It takes 30 minutes to iron one shirt and I end up ironing wrinkles into it. It is officially Michael's job. #3: cleaning bathrooms. This is the worst. Mold, pee, poop. Yuck. Not to mention the chemicals I clean with stink and give me a headache and stomachache. So, I clean the bathrooms VERY rarely, which is worse because then they're even harder to clean. And I am trying to switch to all natural cleaners, which don't work as well.
When someone figures out a way get the bathrooms to clean themselves, please let me know!
I love doing chores:
* LAUNDRY and DISHES are everyday chores that feel small and keep the house looking clean to me. There's something therapeutic about those chores - you don't have to think while you do them. I love to pray while I do these chores. I've been doing them since I was a little girl, and I actually really like them.
* VACUUMING and SWEEPING makes me appreciate every single square inch of my house. The whole room looks so clean when it's freshly vacuumed. I don't go overboard and make straight lines, but I do love having a dirt free, hair free, sock fuzzy free floor.
* DEEP CLEANING I only do once or twice a year, and once I get started, I'm on a roll. I feel like I clean more than just behind my stove, it makes me start thinking about bringing all the junk I keep in my spiritual corners to the Lord. Sometimes he needs to use a brillo pad on me - it hurts at first, but I'm washed clean in the end!
* ORGANIZING makes me happy. This perfectionist adores organization. I've even passed it down to Kara. "Playing" these days means lining blocks up all in a row. She'll even do it according to color and tell me, look mommy, I o-gan-ized them!
I know I sound a little like a freak, but staying home and running the house is truly the calling for me. I love it. All that good stuff said, there are chores I hate. #1: mopping. I get all sweaty and water sloshes all around and it's a lot of effort for something that needs to be done again 7 days later. #2: ironing. I'm insanely bad at it. It takes 30 minutes to iron one shirt and I end up ironing wrinkles into it. It is officially Michael's job. #3: cleaning bathrooms. This is the worst. Mold, pee, poop. Yuck. Not to mention the chemicals I clean with stink and give me a headache and stomachache. So, I clean the bathrooms VERY rarely, which is worse because then they're even harder to clean. And I am trying to switch to all natural cleaners, which don't work as well.
When someone figures out a way get the bathrooms to clean themselves, please let me know!
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I am the WORST at ironing too - I had a talent of ironing the wrinkles into the clothes and then never getting them out again. It's bad. I also have a tendency of washing and drying my clothes and then leaving them for a week so they are VERY wrinkled. I don't see how you do laundry every day - I do Ivan and my laundry once a week! In Honduras I washed my clothes by hand and dried them in the sun and it seemed so much more therapeutic. Now I hate it. My favorite chore? Washing dishes.
And my "after work clothes" only get washed once a week too....
Maybe I'm just a dirty person.