Thursday, April 4, 2013

The chores of life!

Ugh...it's Saturday morning again and my mom is waking everyone up because it's time to clean the house. Why is it that 4 adults living in one small house have such a hard time keeping it clean. And why is it that my mother feels the need to wake us all up to help her with this chore. It the weekend, my sleep in time!! Let me sleep!

 I guess I can understand my mom’s frustration. Everyone in our house has busy schedules and we are hardly ever home so how does the house even get so messy? There are very few nights during the week where there is more than one person at home at a time. We are all involved in several different activities. Mom is usually running me somewhere since I don't have my driver’s license yet. My brother is in college and is always running back and forth to Mount Mercy for classes, choir or baseball practices and games. My dad is busy managing the horse ranch which means he is always on the run to the vet or taking a piece of machinery to the mechanics. I have a job, volunteer work and show choir. So everyone is usually not even home.

 What that means is that Saturday morning is the only time most weeks where we are all in the house. She wakes us up early to help her before we all scoot for the day. Usually it doesn't take too long but it's a real pain in the butt when I want to stay in bed and sleep a little longer because I had to work late the night before and get up every morning at 5:30 during the week.

She calls us from downstairs and it sounds like a siren going off! We always tell her just one more hour but it never works because she knows if she waits we will leave because we have plans. I can hear my brother across the hall way complaining too. Neither one of us are excited about getting up this morning but living in our house means that it is all of our jobs to maintain it. Not the most ideal thing for us at this age but I guess it's preparing us for the future.

So what do you do? Get up and clean messes that sometimes aren’t even yours and take all day to do, when we have other stuff to do, or find a way around it. I think I'll get a maid!!(423)
-Ardeeemilla(:

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