I Can’t Stand the “C” Word

But I can’t avoid it

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Cleaning.

Cleaning is the first thing that goes by the wayside when I’m busy trying to navigate the balance between children and work. Those two have to be a priority. It’s a dance. Not a finely tuned choreographed display of beauty. It’s the ugliest, most jarring awful YouTube dance you’ve ever seen. (Go ahead and search awful dancing on YouTube! I did and found some amazingly awful dancing!)

Nothing is as overwhelming to me as cleaning. I put it off and put it off until it has to be done. I will actually do other things I’ve been procrastinating forever before cleaning. I may even make a phone call to put off cleaning for another hour! And I really hate making phone calls.

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Part of my problem is that not everything has its place. Instead of starting on the cleaning a few weeks ago, I went and got shelves, totes, bins, and a bunch of other organizational things!

Honestly, I’ve been collecting organizational things since about December with the best intentions of getting everything under control!