And now before someone starts saying that this is not messy enough, well let me tell you, it's messy enough for me. See the computer monitor under the plant stand? Well there's another one behind the chair in the corner that you can just get a peek at the top of it back there. What you can't see in the photos are the dust you can write your name in, or the cobwebs in the corners of the ceiling...my mother use to call those "Irish Lace" (*LOL*) she had an Irish grandmother who use to say that if anyone was bold enough to comment on them.
AND these are just pictures of my dining room and my kitchen counters, I wasn't about to go around every room in the house to show you my stacked boxes and totes, just "waiting" to be placed in storage. It's been a long wait.:c)) And I couldn't show you stacks of dirty dishes as DH takes care of those. I know it! I'm spoiled, and I love it!
What you must all realize is that there are just the 2 of us here now and it just shouldn't be that way, but it is and I don't much care... IF it takes time away from my quilting, or my charity work at the church, it just won't get done soon. It will get cleaned and dusted when I have the time, which will not be in the near future. Probably 2 days before Christmas, before my kids start coming home for Christmas. Well I wouldn't want them to think their mother wasn't the perfect mother would I? I have to put my best foot forward....(*LOL*)
So there, I'm liberated also!
I just love this post Lila started, because it is so much like human nature to always put our 'best foot' forward, and to hide the 'nasty' stuff under the carpet or in my case behind the bedroom door (NO ONE EVER looks behind your bedroom door!
When I was first married, I had an unexpected visit from my mother-in-law and while my husband met her at the door I was frantically shoving dirty dishes in the oven. (*LOL*)...it just wouldn't have been right to have her think that her son had married anything but the perfect little homemaker....gosh when I think back... how many times have we all been guilty of hiding our 'dirty little secrets'? And by that I mean the basket of clothes that hasn't been sorted or folded, shoving magazines under the couch cushions, or closing bedroom doors hastily so that 'if' our guest had to use the bathroom', he or she wouldn't be shocked see our unmade beds at two in the afternoon.
I once had a neighbor that told me that her husband wouldn't live in my house because it wasn't "clean enough" for him! The man worked for the city and half the times in the sewers, and took a shower once a week! EUGH! I had a small 24x24 foot house with 5 growing children. It wasn't dirty, but it sure has heck was messy! Needless to say this neighbor and I parted ways.
On that note I send a challenge to the rest of you to "GET LIBERATED!" Tell the world your human and you can't do it all, nor do you really want to do it all. Life is too short, and there are so many other more important things to do than wash up the breakfast dishes as soon as possible so the kitchen will 'shine'
Till next time...
~~Fran...:c)
What you must all realize is that there are just the 2 of us here now and it just shouldn't be that way, but it is and I don't much care... IF it takes time away from my quilting, or my charity work at the church, it just won't get done soon. It will get cleaned and dusted when I have the time, which will not be in the near future. Probably 2 days before Christmas, before my kids start coming home for Christmas. Well I wouldn't want them to think their mother wasn't the perfect mother would I? I have to put my best foot forward....(*LOL*)
So there, I'm liberated also!
I just love this post Lila started, because it is so much like human nature to always put our 'best foot' forward, and to hide the 'nasty' stuff under the carpet or in my case behind the bedroom door (NO ONE EVER looks behind your bedroom door!
When I was first married, I had an unexpected visit from my mother-in-law and while my husband met her at the door I was frantically shoving dirty dishes in the oven. (*LOL*)...it just wouldn't have been right to have her think that her son had married anything but the perfect little homemaker....gosh when I think back... how many times have we all been guilty of hiding our 'dirty little secrets'? And by that I mean the basket of clothes that hasn't been sorted or folded, shoving magazines under the couch cushions, or closing bedroom doors hastily so that 'if' our guest had to use the bathroom', he or she wouldn't be shocked see our unmade beds at two in the afternoon.
I once had a neighbor that told me that her husband wouldn't live in my house because it wasn't "clean enough" for him! The man worked for the city and half the times in the sewers, and took a shower once a week! EUGH! I had a small 24x24 foot house with 5 growing children. It wasn't dirty, but it sure has heck was messy! Needless to say this neighbor and I parted ways.
On that note I send a challenge to the rest of you to "GET LIBERATED!" Tell the world your human and you can't do it all, nor do you really want to do it all. Life is too short, and there are so many other more important things to do than wash up the breakfast dishes as soon as possible so the kitchen will 'shine'
Till next time...
~~Fran...:c)
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