I Should Have Taken Home Ec in High School

Silly me, applying myself in AP Calculus. I should have been learning to sew and cook. I am loving being a stay at home mom, but I am feeling a bit like Cinderella these days. All I do is clean up after the more privileged members of my family while wearing stained unflattering clothes (thanks to little Barfy McBarferton and my refusal to spend money on a wardrobe in my current size). The cooking is fine, I actually like to cook when I have ample time. But I do not have the housecleaning gene. I have to force myself to do it or it just won't get done.

In that vein, I spent this evening making a housecleaning schedule for myself. In an Excel spreadsheet cause I'm nerdy like that. Husband is amazed by how often I think we should vacuum the living room. I think every other day, he thinks every other week. It is Henry's primary play space and the dog's primary sleep/butt scoot space. Now Henry is no longer contained on a blanket (sigh) and it grosses me out to see him face down on a dirty carpet.

Of course Husband's immediate reaction was to lobby for a Dyson vacuum cleaner. Because that's the reason we both hate to vacuum. Our vacuum cleaner is just not expensive enough. And also I am not losing any weight right now because I need a new iPod and water bottle. Four gigs is just not enough music for the kind of serious work out I will do as soon as I have a cuter water bottle to sustain me.