One Step Forward, Two Steps Back...

My daughter is sick today - coughing and feverish - so I'm keeping her home.  I usually work every day, so I thought, 'Great.  While she's lying on the couch and recuperating, I can get lots done in the house!'

I've been trying to clean my shower curtain by spraying cleaner on it and then scrubbing it while it's still hanging.  This has not worked well.  This was finally my chance to take the whole thing down and put it in the washing machine and hope for the best.  So I did.

A while later, I walked into the bathroom, and stopped short.  It was a disaster.  There was water everywhere.  Pools of dirty water across the entire floor.  Sopping wet towels were lying in the mess.  Even the cupboards were wet.  What on earth happened?

My son - and I am still in shock about this - had taken a shower voluntarily.  I don't know if he noticed that there wasn't a shower curtain up.  Does he even know the purpose of one?  Apparently not.  He could have gone to the other shower, but I guess that didn't occur to him.  So he just took a shower anyway.  And then left all the mess.

It seems so hard to get ahead, sometimes.

At least I got the rosebushes trimmed.

Is Anyone Else Falling Apart at the Seams? Anyone?

My five year old daughter had a play date the other day.  Her friend walked into our house, looked around, and promptly announced, "Wow.  This house is REALLY messy."

I ran around frantically picking things up and trying not to say testily, "I think the phrase you're looking for is 'lived-in'...."!

Yes, the house was messy.  Mornings are always such chaos, and then I go to work.  I go directly from work to pick up the kids from school.  So as soon as I walk into the house I'm faced with the morning mess.

And it had been one of those mornings, with everyone rushing around.  It's hard to get four people fed, dressed, packed with extra shoes and lunches, and with teeth brushed.  I wish my house were cleaner, though.

That morning I had poured a coffee and then couldn't bring it with me to work because I couldn't find the lid.  (It's always an ominous sign when I can't take coffee with me.)

When I got to work and looked in a mirror, my bra strap was showing and there was a run in my nylons.

I can't be the only one who feels like she just can't get it together, right?  (Right?)

But I have a solution!  Google 'messy homes'.  It's amazing.  My house looks absolutely sparkling clean in comparison.  Thank you, perspective!