Some of us truly need to have our spaces clean, it's just who we are. I have come to accept that it's my hang up to need to have everything in its place and I try my best not to inflict my housecleaning on everybody else that surrounds me that does not feel the need to be tidy. I keep my area of the world as I see fit and it is fine if no one else subscribes to the same belief system. With age a particular amount of wisdom descends upon you, I wasn't always quite as accepting.
I have got a rather big brood a six pack to be exact. Five girls and one lonely boy make up the six pack. They range in age from 29 to 16. When the 29 year old was 16, I was a totally different parent. I was let's say regimented, I had to be I had been clearly out numbered. Everybody was up and at em early Saturday morning to clean. We divided tasks and chores based on age and ability and passed out the cleaning materials, a great portion of the day was focused upon cleaning, serious cleaning. My oldest child can use a
cordless vacuum with the best of them by the time she was 8. We scrubbed and scoured, swept and mopped, vacuumed and dusted the day away. They disliked it and I, well I admired a clean house
Three of the six pack are married, they are wonderful strong women college educated, 3 of them moms with children of their own, and they're all four homeowners with beautifully kept homes. Sometimes only occasionally I feel a bit bad for instilling my "everything has a place motto" in them simply because they appear weary. They've got careers and husbands and family demands and they follow the Saturday ritual to a tee. I try now to tell them that it's ok to let stuff go a bit, nobody is checking, they could relax a while and nobody will notice, but I performed my job well, they wear themselves thin making certain everything was in its place.
I am a totally different parent now, whether through self discovery or exhaustion I am not certain. I like to believe self discovery has taught me a few things, but secretly I realize those kids just wore me out. I am lax now to the tenth degree, oh I nevertheless love a clean home, and nevertheless keep my personal space clean, however the Saturday rituals have long left the agenda. The two (one is off at college) that are left are just a bit different I realized recently exactly how different they really are.
I told my 16 year old daughter to help with some vacuuming in hard to reach areas for the upper level for me and introduced her to our new cordless handheld vacuum. She appeared cordial toward the vacuum when I left to perform some errands. Upon my return the handheld vacuum was still on the top landing exactly exactly where the introduction was made. I requested her presence by the hall, exactly where she appeared immediately. I asked what had happened using the vacuum, I thought they were able to work together; after all I did add a particular amount of fanfare using the introduction. Well it would seem my sixteen year old daughter couldn't use the vacuum. She was baffled by how to turn it on! Indeed times have changed for me.
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