Stupid, boring housework :evil:
HOW do any of you find the motivation to keep your house spick and span with a baby to look after? During Sam's naps, by the time I've made meals for him, cleaned the highchair (AGAIN), eaten something myself, and of course spent a good hour on the internet (haha - kind of), there is NO way I want to clean my house. Once he's gone to bed, again, I just do not have the energy to tidy and clean. I really do the bare minimum, and we are so lucky to have a cleaner once a week, otherwise Environmental Health would be round...
I am a complete slummy mummy. Please tell me I'm not the only one?
I am a complete slummy mummy. Please tell me I'm not the only one?
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So the house is pretty clean and tidy but nowhere near what it used to be, I used to clean top to bottom once a week, that never happens now !x
Lily goes to the childminder one day/week so I do a big clean and tidy then as well as all the paperwork (Maddie allowing), and then just do little bits here & there to keep afloat during the week. Every morning I tidy upstairs before the girls & I go down for breakfast, and every evening once they're asleep for the night I tidy downstairs.
My house is a state! I hate it like that but the kids are happy and healthy, so I'm a happy mummy!! Not worth getting stressed over!
xxx
Now that Peter is down to one nap a day, I have to do all this after he has gone to bed. Nap time is usually spent preparing lunch and working as I work from home and need to at least vaguely keep on top of things the six days he isn't in nursery. Thankfully my husband does all the laundry and cleans the bathroom, although that could probably be done more often to be honest.
So yes, tidy but not sparkly clean pretty much sums it up. If I get my research funding, I am going to insist that we get a cleaner next year!
Cxx
Despite that I too had cleaning, I like it because it looks nice afaterwards but get so tired doing it.
Cxx
What a lovely way to see things! I may print that off and stick it on my fridge. )
Everytime we have a major clean I promise myself that I will keep on top of it and maybe do a room a day or something like that thinking it won't take long to whizz around a room and clean it and then it won't be such a big task but it never happens!
I don't find general cleaning a problem, it's the bigger jobs like weeding the garden, washing and hoovering the car, cleaning my wheelie bins and household bin out, cleaning the oven (the latter is probably done on a 3 monthly basis, VERY half heartedly!)
xxx
Im jealous of all of you with cleaners! Are they expensive?
My treat to myself once I go back to work in Sept is a cleaner, she's all booked in ready to go, it's the only silver lining in the grim reality of maternity leave coming to the end!!
xxxx