Cleaner sooner than later....

I did it.  I heard the mantra even as I did it.  I invited a new friend and her sweet children over today for a playdate.  I found myself frantically cleaning my house for their arrival.  Not that I was expecting perfection but I wanted to at least be able to see the dining room table.

What was it that I heard in my head, my mantra?  Don't do for others what you won't do for your spouse.  Our house had needed a good ol' fashion cleaning for a week.  The dining room doubles as my sewing room and I had my lovely supplies spread all over.  We were eating on the kitchen island so there wasn't a real need to rush and clean off the table.  Until we had guests that is.

Oh how often I let the house settle into a "tidy disarray" when it is just us at home.   A couple things here or there that I don't put away.  Papers that need to be sorted.  The random toy...that multiplies.  Baby stuff on tables.  Not filth just disarray.

However, if I would just take the moments that I have and straighten the disarray would disappear.  My sweet husband loves a tidy home.  He has learned to live in my untidiness and for that I am greatful.  But I realized today how much more I should be willing to tidy the house for my husband than I am for a friend.

Oh my.