Quote Originally Posted by Crankin View Post
SFA, my advice is to hire a cleaning lady. Even if you can afford it only one a month or twice a month. Maybe you can find a college student who could help. That way, it's easier to keep up in between. And you can spend your free time doing things with your kids (or riding). And, I hate to ask, but is your husband doing his part?
I'd absolutely love to hire a cleaning lady and have looked into it, but it's beyond our budget right now. That's my ultimate dream, though.

My husband pretty much does his part, but he has a much higher tolerance for dirt than I do, so his "assigned" tasks don't get done nearly as often as I'd like them to. He waits until things get really disgusting before doing the job. He and I work opposite schedules, though, so our old habit of spending a couple of hours each Saturday morning thoroughly cleaning the house fell apart once he started coming home at 8 a.m. after working all night and then crashing all day. He also has the really, really annoying habit of being a do-gooder volunteer, so instead of spending his days off cleaning the house (and during the school year he'd have the place to himself to do this) he instead spends his days off building homes for Habitat for Humanity or donating blood or knocking on doors for political causes or volunteering at the school. Drives me nuts, but if I say anything I come off sounding like the Wicked Witch of the West ("whydja spend all day helping poor people when our lawn needed mowing???"). Every once in a while, though, I'll come home from work and find that he spent the day vacuuming and mopping. Those are nice days.

Sarah