Welcome to my blog. Life is full of ups and downs, but Christ has made all things beautiful. And he is my strength

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Obsession or Nesting?

I have an obsession: to keep my house spotless. It's really nice to always have a clean house, but it's annoying that I am constantly trying to find SOMETHING to clean... even when everything is clean. I don't know if it's because of the pregnancy, or if I'm starting to want a clean house all the time. I hope it stays around, but I hope the nagging feeling to always be cleaning something goes away.

It all started about 2 weeks ago. I started cleaning the kitchen and just kept moving from room to room, cleaning corner to corner. It didn't stop for a week. I cleaned EVERY room in my house, including the storage area in the basement!!!! I did move everything from our back breezeway to the basement and made that room into a den/game room. I should not have carried everything down the stairs myself, but it's done! Now that everything is clean and organized, I do the general housework daily, and then have a bi-weekly and weekly list of things that I need to do (dust, vacuum, scrub bathrooms, floors, laundry, change sheet, etc). However, after those things are done, my brain is not satisfied. I have to keep looking for things to clean or organize.... and that's hard when you have a spotless house.

As of right now, it's on my list to pull out all the food from the cupboards just to wash them!!! I think, as long as I am satisfied that everything is picked up, I need to learn to sit and relax! I'm sure this obsession will go away once Lincoln's here.. I'll be far to busy to worry about cleaning up past a clean house!

1 comment: