After sleeping on it and re-reading my post from yesterday I realize that I may have come off a little harsh and I just want to clarify something: mild clutter and kid messes does not constitute "dirty" in my mind. That resembles life. But, underneath of the stuff and the life it can still be "clean." I hope I didn't offend anyone who actually has a home like mine: clean, but obviously lived in and usually messy;) I love you all and hope you know that in reality the stuff that makes my skin crawl at home very rarely do I notice in other people's homes. You always notice your own flaws more distinctly than those of others even if you don't admit it to yourself. I promise to come over to any of your homes and walk barefoot, eat off of your clean dishes, and use your bathroom anytime!
I'm truly and deeply sorry if I have offended any of you--stay tuned for a post about my garage and then you can feel vindicated;)
(I wanted to find a picture to add to this and googled "cluttered home"....the results were just plain scary! Now that is some messed up houses...)
2 comments:
Oh my goodness, this is too funny, only because I read and re-read my comment on yesterday's post before I submitted it and thought, "I hope this is coming across as I intend it to." And it totally didn't! :) I did not think your post yesterday was offensive in the least!!! I only meant to say that I don't think anybody should tell you that you "clean too much" because we each have our "thing," our "thing" that we do because it's important to us, it gives us a sense of satisfaction, or whatever it is. We each have a right to our "thing." That person who told you you clean "too much" has her OWN "thing" that she thinks is important and spends a lot of time doing. This probably isn't explaining it any better, but I just meant that everybody has a "thing" and since we're all different, we just have to respect each other's "thing." She can't tell you that you spend too much time cleaning. She just can't. It might be too much time to her, but it's not to you, and it works for you and it makes you happy. (And you're training GREAT kids, by the way!!) In MY experience, which is, I'm sure, NOT the same as everybody else's experience, I found over the years that I love clean and I love organized and when I try to enforce it (with one certain child especially) there is a lot of contention and a LOT of anger on my part, and I had to choose between clean and ...him, basically. I only brought that up as an example of how each of us are SO different, so nobody can really tell YOU what you should be doing. You have things that are important to you and that work for you... and so does everybody else! Even if they're different "things." I hope that makes better sense now. ??? No apology necessary. I was not offended at all, and I did NOT think your post was harsh. I'm sorry if my comment was unclear. I was actually intending to be supportive of you and not defensive of myself. :) Isn't the written word funny?! Actually, when I was reading the post yesterday I was thinking about how much I would LOVE to come to your house!! :) xoxo
Oh, and to follow up to your comment from yesterday's post, no I absolutely did not think YOU were judging--I was talking about the "you must clean too much" lady judging YOU. That's what I meant about we really can't judge each other because SHE just can't judge what's important to YOU. It just doesn't work that way--only YOU can judge what's most important to YOU, and only SHE can judge what's most important to HER, and if they are different, that's fine. (I hope that makes sense!!) :)
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