Different standards

I have always liked a clean, organized home. I am one of those people that feels like my life is out of control if my house is out of control. I think better and feel better in an organized house.

As I mentioned yesterday, my husband and I are going through and de-cluttering our whole house. It has been great and I love going into the rooms that we have completed. 

But looking around at my clean rooms makes me realize just how different my idea of clean has become since having babies. 

Cleaning my house has become a whole different ball game. I am lucky if 3 rooms are clean at one time. As any mother knows, while you are cleaning one room, sure enough you little ones are destroying another. 

There are days where I vacuum and days where I dust, but rarely days where I do both at one time. There are days where my kitchen is clean and days when my bathroom are clean, but rarely at the same time. There are days where just picking up everything is all that gets done. There are days where everything is a disaster and it just is what it is. 

My standards of what is clean have definitely fallen. I mean seriously, where do all the crumbs come from? And the fingerprints are EVERYWHERE. It is constant battle that I am realizing I might be losing.

Looking around at all of our clutter, it is easy to see why it is piling up. Things get put out-of-sight-out-of-mind because it is easier than really dealing with it. That logic is getting me no where when it comes to keeping my house clean. 

Now, don't get me wrong, I am not a hoarder by any means. I keep a pretty tidy house. But what my idea of clean use to be, and what it is today are just so drastically different. 

I really need to get in the habit of "Don't put down, put away."

It is a great cleaning mantra to stand by. It really would make times like now when we are trying to dig through everything that much easier. 

We are chipping away and it feels so wonderful and I am so happy to really be seeing a difference.