Soooo, cleaning days are hard! They are hard on the kids because well…they’re kids and they don’t see the mess they create as their responsibility to clean. It’s hard for me because I have to spend more time keeping the girls on task than I do actually cleaning!
The result of cleaning day…I have scrubbed more toilets than I’d care to ever do again anytime soon, I am not the friends of Thing 1 and Thing 2, and I realized I miss my cleaning professional sooooooo much! #JustWaitUntilCOVIDIsOver #JustWait
At the end of the day, the girls and I had a conversation about why it takes them ten years to clean, but 2 seconds to mess it up. They shared the stress they feel on cleaning days because I ask them to put things in their home and not just shift the mess to another location. #ImagineThat I asked the girls for some solutions. See, you can complain all day, but if you can’t propose a solution then we have nothing to discuss. Their response, they’d rather trade jobs. They will clean the bathrooms and I will tidy up their rooms and the bonus room…with the disclaimer that they still have to pick up behind themselves. Sidebar, I already told the hubby they were going to get a lesson in appreciation and I was going to make them responsible for the bathrooms. So, it’s good to see we are on the same page.
This is going to get interesting! I know my girls and I know that big one is much like me. We turn our noses up at all things gross. She is going to scrub that toilet one…maybe two times and be asking for her old job back! That little one, though, she actually may enjoy it because she has 4 main areas of focus: toilet, tub, sink, and floor. Once those are tended to she can go on about her day while her sister is sitting there staring at the toilet like it’s going to clean itself. These kids may want to live together as adults because they are truly the yin to each other’s yang!
More to come…
