Clean

"A messy home is a loved home"
-Amber

I made that up. I refuse to google it and see if it is a real phrase for fear of finding out that someone else already coined it. It is one of my better made up quotes which is why I am sure I am not the originator.

Anyway, the reason I came up with it was because I feel that our house is always a mess and I was tired of feeling bad about it. And how can anyone argue with a loving home?

A certain someone has completely taken up the living room with all of his toys, we let him, but still. We have papers everywhere. I am pretty sure we got a bigger table just so we could have more surface area to leave stuff on. Someone once told me that my room looked like a tornado had gone through it, that tornado is still with me.

So one day my love hate relationship with Pinterest turned into love when I saw a clip on keeping a clean house on just 20 minutes a day. I was all over that. I made my own schedule and am really liking it. I am only on week 2 of this and I have missed a few days here and there but I am pretty hopeful that this sticks.

Here is my schedule:
Monday: Vaccum and mop all floors
Tuesday: Dust
Wednesday: Clean bathrooms
Thursday: Clean kitchen - counters, stove...
Friday: NOTHING

Weekend: NOTHING

Laundry done when needed. I am sure I am forgetting to write some things down, these are just the main ideas.


Let me be the first to say, toys are still everywhere, the papers have not moved but underneath everything it is clean. The mess can stay but the dirt is gone and that means clean.