House clean then not!

Have you ever wondered what happens to your house overnight? You've cleaned everything that morning right? or that afternoon? or evening? But when you wake up in the morning, you think . . . "What happened?" I like to think that a bunch of mice (they don't come in and clean up like the movie Enchanted shows us) came in and had a party and did all the mess and it wasn't any of our faults. But somehow that isn't what happened and you wake up to a dirty house and start all over. It seems hopeless some days too!

Recently I had spring break. Now usually during school times, I get my house clean little by little and more surface cleaning than deep cleaning. However during spring break, no school, so I would have time to clean, really clean. I was able to truly get my house spic and span, from top to bottom in 3 days. Leaving the 4th and 5th day of the break to relax. It was soooooo nice to have a clean home and sit down and read a book one of those days. But come Monday of the next week, we were rushing out the door to go to coop and I look back and I think what happened to my clean house. Ever since then I've been wondering because it hasn't been really cleaned since that week.

I enjoy a clean house but I don't enjoy cleaning it. I enjoy homeschooling too, but I think a clean house and homeschooling aren't meant to be in the same sentence. I talk to many women who homeschool everyday and they all say the same thing (thankfully I'm not the only one who can't seem to get it done). The world says . . . "You can have it all!", but the world hasn't homeschooled and tried to keep a clean house too! (by the way, I don't listen to the world, I listen to Jesus who says, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!" and He is still working on me too! I'm sure He has the same quandrys with "I just clean her up and she gets dirty again too!)

So I have to ask myself, do I have to have my house clean or do I need to homeschool? Well my children certainly need an education and a good one at that. After all, that is why I homeschool. But they need to be in a clean house too! We need clean dishes and clean clothes. So day after day, I will teach them and day after day I will continue to battle a dirty house. One day, the bible says, I will overcome. I will have a clean house, but not for more than a day, because people live in it and they dirty it up all over again. And the people who dirty it up again, I love them and they are worth cleaning it all over again.

And yes, my kids do chores, lots of them, but they also mess it up all over again too!