Hello my loves,
As ever life happened between my posts! So something I intended to post in Nov 2022 is only just happening! So without further ado let’s begin…
The reason my house is never clean – I am not exaggerating this story actually happened… for the sake of my sanity I have omitted every occurrence of having to stop to breast feed, change nappies, tell a child they are big enough to get their own prepackaged drink/snack or respond to a high pitch scream or a yell of ‘muuuuuummmmmmmmmmy’.
This story starts at about 11am:
- Washing machine beeps – realise I need to hang laundry.
- Get half way to the washing machine and realise the clothes airers are full.
- Go to fold dry laundry, realise it is all still damp and needs to go in the airing cupboard.
- Remember airing cupboard is still full of dry clothes.
- Go upstairs to empty airing cupboard.
- Realise that the bed – which I use to sort clothes on is unmade.
- Go to make bed realise floor is covered in stuff from bags used during recent hospital stay with youngest child.
- Start putting said stuff away – which involves emptying a wardrobe to put away the flight bags used in hospital.
- Find bits belonging to daughter take them to nursery.
- Find new (still boxed) Christmas tree on nursery floor (daughter is only 3 months old and still sleeping in our room).
- Clear path across nursery to put stuff away.
- Remember that husband started to move wardrobe closer to wall before daughter went into hospital but stopped because it was too heavy to move and he couldn’t empty it because it’s full of Christmas presents, so it’s sat at a funny angle that’s annoying the hell out of me.
- Begin to surreptitiously empty wardrobe so children don’t see presents.
- Move wardrobe.
- Reload wardrobe.
- Receive pleas for lunch because family are starving.
- Throw fish fingers in oven.
- Realise how much random rubbish is everywhere begin litter picking house into empty packaging from a pack of nappies.
- Get back to bedroom and remember I was making bed – finally do that.
- Notice joke Christmas present that needs posting, grab envelope to do that whilst I’m thinking about it.
- Hear kitchen timer remember I was making lunch.
- Start writing this blog whilst eating a fish finger sandwhich (I knew I’d never remember it all otherwise).
- Return upstairs and empty clothes from airing cupboard.
- Sort clothes into piles when putting daughters clothes away discover contents of draw has become a squirrels nest.
- Tidy draw.
- Return to putting clothes away.
- Go downstairs to empty airers.
- Re-find joke present next to clean laundry basket write note to go with gift.
- Remember their address is in your phone which you have no idea of the location of decide you’ll come back to that later.
- Empty the dry and nearly dry clothes from airers.
- Sort clothes into damp and not damp on bed.
- Put damp clothes in airing cupboard forget dry clothes on bed even exist until I’m exhaustedly tumbling into bed at 10pm.
- Finally remove laundry from machine and hang on airers.
Finish time 15:45!
So until my brain masters the art of doing just the task at hand (oh and my kids fly the nest) my house shall never truly be clean!
Until next time my loves,
Namaste 🙏
Li x
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