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Confession: when I ask my boys to clean their bedroom it usually ends in a huge weeping pile of me. After hours without progress and constantly breaking down tasks and repeat repeat repeating myself I am left wanting never to face this challenge again. So I wait and wait and then rinse and […]

I’ll never forget a drawing Ben made of me when he was in kindergarten. It showed me vacuuming the floor. The caption read, “My mom likes to… vacuum.” When the picture came home in Ben’s backpack, I stared at it. I laughed. And then I cried.
No, I didn’t cry. […]

Our house is generally clean and neat, but I know it’s in need of certain attentions: Hand-me-downs lurk in a closet, waiting to be sorted and tried on. The kitchen longs for reorganization. The playroom toys pine to be sorted through and rotated. The checkbook screams to be balanced; the computers groan for an operating […]

All right, I’m taking a poll: how many of you think you have a clean house? How many of you clean your homes (maybe not in every nook and cranny, but pretty much top to bottom) every week?
Honestly now!
Because the truth is, I am an awful housekeeper. I hate it. I get no joy out […]