Doesn’t any one see this mess??
August 19th, 2011 § 1 Comment
Doesn't any one see this mess??
You know, the one person in the house that cleans up after everyone else. The one person that doesn’t just step over shoes in the middle of the living room floor; leave dirty dishes to pile up in the sink; ignore the dust gathering in layers on the mantle.
Is it that my family doesn’t see the mess? That my daughter isn’t aware that I nearly tripped over her shoes lying negligently, half-way underneath the sofa? That my husband doesn’t notice the finger smudges on the windows or the laundry exploding out of the hampers?
What’s more likely is that they know that Mom will take care of it all.
Or ask them, at least 20 times before any one acts, to clean up.
Maybe today is the day that I don’t do it anymore. That I let it all go. Allow everything to pile up and spill over, stop asking everyone to take responsibility for their own things, and no longer let messes bug me.
Ahhhhhh….
An image from the show, “Hoarding: Buried Alive,” just streaked across my terrified brain. My “Just Don’t Do It” moment didn’t even last 30 seconds.
I tried not picking up after my kids and husband, they eventually asked me what was the matter with me. Not ever did they think what was the matter with them for not picking up their things. Clearly it was my job. So I tried Mom’s on vacation this week, housecleaning is your job. It worked sometimes but the job still belongs to Mom.