Housework

As I’m sure you can guess from this post’s thrilling title, I’m currently working from home blitzing the housework. When I started this blog, I had a vague idea of writing about the trials of being a WAHM (work-at-home mum) but it hasn’t really turned out like that. Mainly because I don’t actually work at home. Most weeks the hours I spend in the office, supplemented by the odd couple of hours here and there when Thomas is sleeping, are quite enough. I rarely get a day like today when I’m home alone, ‘working’. DH has taken Thomas on a grand tour – visiting some friends and having a pub lunch with his side of the family. I’m quite jealous, especially of the pub lunch, and I miss my boys, but this is a good opportunity for me to get loads of work done. Unfortunately I decided to do a bit of cleaning. DH and I have decided that we’d like the house to be cleaner and tidier so that’s what I’m trying to accomplish. I thought about doing something similar to Beth’s 100 days list but I’m no good at doing just one thing per day – I tend to let things build up while I stress about them and then blitz everything in one go. So that’s what I’m going to do today.

Now it may make sense to organised people to take one room at a time, but I am not organised. So far today I’ve started cleaning the kitchen but got carried away by descaling (we have very hard water in this area) so I dashed upstairs to tackle the bathroom (cleaning and tidying involves a lot of dashing for me – don’t want to spend any longer doing it than I have to!). I’ve put descaling tablets down the toilet (last resort – I don’t like using harsh cleaners but nothing else will do – I’ve tried! – and yeah, you’re supposed to leave these overnight but I swear I pee just as much at night as in the day – TMI? sorry!), I’ve started washing Snarfy’s bath toys, I’ve rinsed the shower curtain and started to sort out the bottles under the sink. You may notice I’ve used the word ‘started’ a lot in the last sentence. I tend to flit from task to task – I need a cloth to dry Snarfy’s bath toys so I’ve come downstairs only to be distracted by my half-cleaned kitchen but then the laundry finished so I’m debating whether to bother hanging it outside. So here I am at the laptop ostensibly checking the forecast but actually distracted by blogging. This is how I expect today will continue and then, an hour before my boys get home, I’ll freak out and dash round finishing it all off. That’s the plan anyway. I’ll let you know how it goes… Right now I could really do with a cuppa but the kettle is full of descaler – now that’s something that it would have made sense to leave overnight!