I haven't cleaned my house in 2 months

Now I know that sounds gross, but I did clean it before we went on vacation, and we were gone for 3 weeks, so that 3 week period doesn't even count, but today I finally cleaned the house. I did clean here and there, a bathroom here, a bit a vacuuming there. But I didn't do a big clean, which I usually do every week.

I am all for a clean house, but there are some things that are so much more important. Like tanning, going to the lake, going for a bike ride. Just about anything that is fun, or outdoors in nice weather counts as more important. The house really isn't all that bad anyway. It's a bit dusty, but my house is always dusty. I hate to dust. Why should I dust? It's just going to come right back. If someone can show me how to dust so that it stays not dusty, I'd pay a million dollars! I had to give my husband crap for drawing in the dust on a high shelf. It's a "half" wall, that goes up the length of a full wall, but in an area that has a vaulted ceiling. There's a wood shelf top on the wall and it gets really dusty. But if you don't disturb the dust, no one can tell....unless your fool husband draws in it!

You'd be surprised at how clean the house really was. It's not like the longer you leave it, the house gets exponentially dirtier. Once it's dirty, it just stays kind of dirty. When you finally go to clean the house, it really only takes as long as it usually does. It doesn't take longer. You can only vacuum the same areas, there's not more to vacuum. It's not as if I had to scrub the house for hours to get it clean, I don't have that much build up on anything.

I do have to admit that the house feels so much better now that it's clean. The bathrooms seem larger now that there aren't clothes all over the floor and draped over the tub ledge. It's nice to walk through the house without tripping over things. It's nice to have a table that is not full of clutter and travel stuff. I even put the table cloth back on my dining room table!

Like I said, I usually clean the house very week, but now that I know that it's not so bad to leave it, I might just take a week off every once in a while. I've finally learned that a clean house can wait. My kids, the weather and a good spa day cannot!