I am not master of my domain.
No, I’m not talking about in the Seinfeld sense, so you can please just wipe that idea from your brain right away. I’m talking about my house. My home. The place that rather than hang my hat, I usually toss it on a piece of furniture because there’s some crisis or another taking shape the second I walk in the door.
Someone once said to me that a perfect house in which children live is a house with miserable children. I’m not sure that’s true–maybe there are parents who are just that organized. If so, and if you’re out there, tips are welcome.
Or maybe I just really need a hat rack.
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January 7, 2019 at 9:48 pm
As much as I want to think that the cleanest homes have insane children. With 4 (3 boys) my house always looked like a tornado went through, or ‘signs of struggle’ the cops would say. I just didn’t have the energy or know how to do what my friends did to keep spotless houses. Maybe the ‘perfects’ are into their homes like I am into music or art? Like it is a fun craft keeping homes? I know I was tired and sweaty from cleaning where my sister-in-law with 6 kids (4 girls) seemed always gorgeous and her home spotless. And it wasn’t her mother. She understood my life better than her own daughter’s. Just always felt I missed the classes on housekeeping with children.
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January 7, 2019 at 10:23 pm
Haha! Me too! They need to teach it alongside prenatal classes. 😉
But really, you might be on to something, Dar. Maybe it’s actually possible to enjoy housecleaning the way we enjoy writing. I suppose stranger things have happened.
Sounds like a story in the making. HA! 😀
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January 8, 2019 at 1:18 am
You can write it. I don’t want to write about housekeeping. It’s necessary for health of inhabitants but… 😉
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January 8, 2019 at 9:21 am
I wouldn’t think writing about it would be as much of a chore as doing it. Surely … 😉 haha
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January 7, 2019 at 7:32 pm
Think you just need a hat rack. Sounds like a rather old timey thing though.
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January 7, 2019 at 10:20 pm
Right. Then I’ll need a nice century house to go with it. Maybe a Victorian … Hehe.
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January 7, 2019 at 11:28 am
Where there are kids we are never in charge 🤔
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January 7, 2019 at 10:19 pm
Ha! It’s the truth! 😉
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January 8, 2019 at 3:27 am
Indeed it is 💜💜
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January 7, 2019 at 7:52 am
Care to know how many hat racks I’ve made? I need fewer hats.
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January 7, 2019 at 10:18 pm
Oh, don’t get me started on how many hats I wear. That’s a whole ‘nuther subject. 😉
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January 8, 2019 at 12:34 pm
🙂
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January 7, 2019 at 2:10 am
Ah to be organized, the elusive unicorn I’m constantly trying to catch 😂🙈
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January 7, 2019 at 10:17 pm
Haha! Right? 🙂
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January 7, 2019 at 1:31 am
Short and sweet! 😊😊
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January 7, 2019 at 10:17 pm
😀
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January 6, 2019 at 11:15 pm
Yes, children first, dishes later. LOL the Seinfeld episode. Loved that one.
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January 7, 2019 at 10:17 pm
It was such a funny episode when it came out. 🙂
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January 6, 2019 at 10:13 pm
I hate that phrase and others like it, because I don’t wanna live in a mess, my husband doesn’t wanna live in a mess and it doesn’t mean we’re awful parents or our kids are miserable. Clearly the children are more important than the dishes, but the dishes must also get done, DUH. Later, though, the children can DO the dishes which is actually what makes children miserable, hm?! Hah!
LOVE the Seinfeld reference-not-reference 🙂
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January 6, 2019 at 10:47 pm
I think in the context the phrase was mentioned to me was for a scenario where leaving a fingerprint on the coffee table was a punishable offense. We’re talking perfect housekeeping.
It’s fun making them miserable asking them to do the dishes, though. 😀
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January 6, 2019 at 10:51 pm
I hope so, because I have been scorned for good housekeeping and it makes me CRAZY. (you can’t tell, you didn’t even notice my ire 😛 )
I always think about when the kids were wee, and they wanted so badly to help — clean the toilets, the litter boxes, the dishes, the broom — all amazing, exciting things, hahahahaha!
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January 6, 2019 at 10:56 pm
I would not scorn you. Never ever.
Alex still wants to do that stuff. Problem is I have to do it all again myself, because no matter how many times he practices, he still can’t do it right.
Or maybe I’m just a control freak. 😛
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January 7, 2019 at 5:57 pm
Oh there’s that, too 😛
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January 6, 2019 at 10:11 pm
Seinfeld wiped.
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January 6, 2019 at 10:45 pm
Phew! Thank goodness for that. 😉
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January 6, 2019 at 10:08 pm
My sisters house was very quiet and she never could understand the chaos of mine. There were days I didn’t either but I did something right I guess because they are pretty neat adults. You will get there.
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January 6, 2019 at 10:45 pm
🙂 Thanks, Anita.
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