Aaaarrrrrgggghhhhh...my house is a pigsty!!! Ok, it's not that bad...

[lisamoe]

Ok, as part of my new Quest for Rest, I am lying in bed instead of following the children around cleaning up after them. I'm just going to let it go and try to clean what I can later in the morning. Also I am not currently doing dishes, laundry or picking up the kids room, although I will get to all those things eventually. If you are a visitor to my house, please bear with me if things aren't as clean as usual, but I am wearing myself out since I went back to work and I am too often finding myself driving while really too tired to be doing so, so I promised a friend I would try to slow down a little, so as not to be a hazard on the road.

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Amen, sistah!

[jorjedatoy.livejournal.com]

I have heard so often, "let her do chores with you, it'll be less work", but that is SO wrong. It is almost always MORE work when a child helps, ESPECIALLY when cleaning the child's room! Tyler likes to stand at the sink (on a step stool) and do dishes with me, but even then, I wash them first because I'm very particular about how clean my dishes get. She'll put laundry in the hampers for me, and I do have her do that. Otherwise, there just isn't much she can help me with. She loves to help me fold laundry, but I'd just want to re-fold stuff so it'll STACK better, but I know I shouldn't, because then it makes her think she didn't do it well enough. And so... I clean up after her. I don't follow her around to do it, though. That would certainly get exhausting. I tell you, though, we have a lil dog now, that could choke on small toys or eat them (so she'd not have them anymore), so she is more inclined to keep things picked up. heh I hadn't thought of this as a fringe benefit of her having a larger pet, or I'd have probably gotten her a dog much sooner! LOL

ramble, ramble, ramble