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By China at 9:43 AM

In a house full of children, house cleaning is a thankless job. When I used to stay at home during the days, I at least could get the house cleaning and maintain it for a little while, which did not make it seem as hopeless. Now, having to work and go to school, I can't nearly keep up with the laundry and the dishes much less actually ripping apart closets and stuff. Having kids running through the house all summer long, makes it even worse. You would think that there would be more time to clean, and there probably is, but with as many kids as we have coming through here it is more like trying to clean up after a tornado has come through. When I was younger, before the invasion of the body snatchers (the arrival of our children) I kept an immaculate house. I cleaned and cooked all weekend long. I used to wash all my little crystal figurines every week to keep them looking nice. Now, forget about crystal figurines, I live in a house will 3 boys, whose passion is soccer and practicing it in my living room seems to be their favorite past time. My husband honestly is no help either, sure he complains that the kids don't clean up, but you can literally follow his path through the house. If he pours a bowl of cereal, the cereal is still out on the counter. When he gets ready for work, he doesn't even close the dresser drawers after he takes his clothes out. And after arriving home from a long day at work, he just strips his clothes off and leaves them anywhere. Then he may or may not return to retrieve them.

As you can hear these are the rants of a mother and wife, living in a home with too much testosterone. Don't get me wrong, I love my boys all 4 of them, but living with them is making me a bit batty. I need at least one child who is a neat freak, unfortunately, that doesn't seem like it is going to happen. Needless to say, I have resigned myself to living in a pig sty at least until they are grown and move out...10 years or so...I am keeping my eye on the prize.