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FlyLady Day 13
Nov. 13th, 2006 02:17 pmBack at home, back to it. Today we are supposed to "pick one of Kelly's Missions and do it". Today it's either to clean the back and sides of the toilet or to go through the Product in the laundry room. I'm choosing the latter, since when I cleaned the whole house a couple of weeks ago, it included the sides of the toilets so they're not too gross.
I was also skeptical of the "weekly home blessing hour" (and we won't even get into an examination of the rhetoric of THAT ONE!). Could I really give my whole house a superficial cleaning in an hour? The answer, it turns out, is yes. In 30 minutes, I did a cursory vacuuming of the basement and the living room, swept the kitchen, entryway, and hall, dusted a bit, gave each bathroom a once-over with a sponge, and did the lunch dishes. I didn't do anything upstairs because TRex was howling in her bed the whole time (instead of napping). I'll do the vacuuming up there tomorrow. I had wiped down the kitchen counters earlier in the day while TRex was drawing at her little table. While I wouldn't say I've been a total cleaning perfectionist (that title I reserve for the mom I saw on Surviving Motherhood who was a SAHM to 3 toddlers and wiped her bathrooms down with disinfecting wipes THREE TIMES A DAY) but I have thought it silly to do a half-assed job of things. I see the logic though - keeping things moderately clean makes the "detail cleaning" much less onerous when it does need to be done.
I was also skeptical of the "weekly home blessing hour" (and we won't even get into an examination of the rhetoric of THAT ONE!). Could I really give my whole house a superficial cleaning in an hour? The answer, it turns out, is yes. In 30 minutes, I did a cursory vacuuming of the basement and the living room, swept the kitchen, entryway, and hall, dusted a bit, gave each bathroom a once-over with a sponge, and did the lunch dishes. I didn't do anything upstairs because TRex was howling in her bed the whole time (instead of napping). I'll do the vacuuming up there tomorrow. I had wiped down the kitchen counters earlier in the day while TRex was drawing at her little table. While I wouldn't say I've been a total cleaning perfectionist (that title I reserve for the mom I saw on Surviving Motherhood who was a SAHM to 3 toddlers and wiped her bathrooms down with disinfecting wipes THREE TIMES A DAY) but I have thought it silly to do a half-assed job of things. I see the logic though - keeping things moderately clean makes the "detail cleaning" much less onerous when it does need to be done.
