Wednesday, 12 January 2011

The housework fairy


Im sure every household has one, you know how somehow housework seems to get done and yet  really acknowledges it, it just gets done? Well im the housework fairy, and have been for the past 11 years. Don't get me wrong dh does more than most men when it comes to housework, but i don't think he actually grasps sometimes exactly how much i do actually do. The upstairs is dusted and vacummed once a month , the bathroom gets done once a week top to bottom, bleach and floor washed. The laundry gets washed, dried and put away everyday. The beds get changed when the laundry basket is empty which is about every 10 days.  We don't own a tumble drier or a dish washer, the plates get done 1-2 times a day, which takes about an hour including drying and putting away. The downstairs gets vaccumed every night , and polished about once a month , although the front room about once a fortnight as it gets most use, and the kitchen gets cleaned everyday, floor broomed every 2 days and washed once a week, downstairs loo done everyday. We rarly have any clutter, theres no room! I spring clean about once every 3 months. You get the idea, im preety cleanish but not over the top. When i had my first son it was unfortunalty by emergency section, i was in hospital for 6 days in total , because they thought i might be anemic even though i wasn't im just pale but they didn't listen to me or the numerous blood test results they ran, anyways i came back expecting a clean house ..i got a weeks worth of dumped washing from what id sent home from the hospital, un-made bed , and dirty kitchen and bathroom, i was pissed, but far to knackered to complain, in all fairness dh did give me a very sheepish guilty look. ..Out of all this the thing that really really pisses me off, is whenever i meet someone new , i asked "AND what do you do" when i tell them im a stay at home mum, they seem to loose interest rather quickly and walk off, this has happened a few times lately. Recently when someone asked me this i relied "im  a house keeper" which got me into a great conversation, but then afterwards i felt annoyed with myself, i hadn't lied as such just elaborated a little, after all i am a stay at home mom..And im proud to say so, if people find that boring then, quite frankly thats their problem , not mine

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