Keeping up the Home

I have never ever been very good at keeping a clean home. I try, but usually it gets out of control and I end up frantically cleaning before visitors arrive. But as I thought about it when I moved this time I said, what if there was an emergency or someone stopped in unexpected, or maintenance came by for something while I wasn't home? My home would be a mess and I would be embarassed and so would my husband! So I am making concentrated efforts to pick up here and there all the time, keep clothes picked up, keep the kitchen neater, and so on. The kitchen seems to be my biggest enemy, even though I have a dishwasher. I always seem to find 10 other things to do besides clean up the kitchen. Probably because it is never ending, there is always some new dish to clean and some pot or pan to wash.

Having a nicely decorated home seems to make it more appealing to clean though. This time around I said I was not going to live in the basic white apartment, I painted in the living room, color coordinated everything and made it look like a home rather than a rental. This seems to make it more important to keep it clean, I put a lot of work into making it beautiful, now I want it to stay looking that way.

So now you know my deep dark secret, I can keep every other place I am in clean and neat as a pin, but my kitchen is the tack in my heel! :)