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Constant Vigilance!

One mom’s struggle to keep a clean house.

By Slon Nelson-Bentley

As a massive Harry Potter fan, your mantra made me giggle. Alas, I am not vigilant enough; maybe I need to adopt the mantra too, especially since my 6-month-old baby is frantically trying to crawl.

Posted by: sherry | May 23, 2006 16:55

This was me about 8 years ago.

Then somehow I went from June Cleaver to having a standard consisting merely of "no dead sippy cups or wet towels on the floor". This was not overnight.

I think perfection lasted about three years. I will add that I was working at a very high pressured health care job at the time too, so that played heavily into my flaming out. That and baby number two.

Once you are outnumbered, they win. You then have two choices, working from dawn until midnight and still not getting everything done, or coasting in places that are not as critical.

And your husband is not the messiest man in the world because I'm married to him.

I just now trying to revive my old ways. And the only time it lasts 15 minutes is when I'm the only one home.

Posted by: JR | Jun 17, 2006 15:11

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