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How clean is your house?
Am I the only one who goes to bed with both sides of the sink full of crusty dishes, laundry thrown all over the couch? I'm just too tired. I feel like a failure 
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Re: How clean is your house?
mine's half a mess, and that's with a bi weekly cleaning lady and DH home from school. Dishes are usually mostly done and laundry is folded at times but usually stacked up in a clean basket. stacked up taller then my 5 year old I might add. there's crap everywhere. I feel like I start something, then someone needs something and it has to wait.
in other words, I have my spoon in lots of pots but everything gets burned outside and raw inside before I can finish cooking it.
and mentally I'm a mess.
I try, but it's no where near what it was before babies. We used to clean the entire house top to bottom every two weeks. It still happens like that for the most part, but it's been every 3 weeks sometimes. Especially this month with all the craziness of the holidays.
I am lucky to have a husband who is a neat freak and hates clutter. (it's a blessing and a curse...he likes to throw everything out) He also hates dishes in the sink, so we are good about that stuff. I credit him for doing 50% of the housework.
If you walked in right now, there would be laundry waiting to be folded in the living room, my clean clothes that I need to put away in our room, but for the most part it could be ready for guests in about an hour.
Like PP said, I always try to remember that the babies will only be little once and no one ever said "gee I wish I had spent more time cleaning when my kids were little." At least I don't think they would! I certainly won;t.
Boy/girl twins born at 37w1d and 37w2d
I know what you mean about feeling like a failure, I feel like that a sometimes too. (Neither of us are of course!) We're doing the best we can.
Sometimes my house is really clean, but that literally only lasts an hour at the most. Usually there are half done projects and chores lying around. There's almost always a few dishes in the sink, and there are toys strewn about too. I try really hard to keep up with it, but the truth is it's never as clean as I'd like it too be.