Not Your Average Messy House

I mentioned that Kolby and I both working full-time now has meant that our house is a huge mess a lot of the time these days.  I’d like to think that we’re still in what I like to call an “adjustment phase”—and that we’ll figure all this out soon. 

We had this great plan for how we’ll clean the house and do laundry on Saturdays, grocery shop on Sundays, and keep the house picked up the rest of the week.  But, we ran into a snag in our perfect plan--- we’ve been out of town most weekends lately.  Not being around to play catch-up on Saturday or Sunday, and several weeks of having something going every night of the week, our house took quite a beating.

If we’re being totally honest, I’d say that last week, our office may have looked like this:

Our bedroom may or may not have looked like this: Those piles started from us not unpacking from Labor Day weekend, and then all of the clothes we’d worn since then strangely gravitated there too.

Where were our clean clothes?  Certainly not hung in the closets.  Why bother when you can just grab them as needed from the dryer or laundry basket?

I post these embarrassing pictures for two reasons.  One, when I talk to anyone about how our house is a mess and they say, “Yeah, ours too.”, I always wish I had a way of conveying that I don’t mean a little bit messy or normal messy like they probably mean, but that our house is a REAL mess--- messy like a tornado just came through, and messy like a certain husky that shall remain nameless has shed a faint blanket of fur over every inch of our beautiful hardwood floors.  So, if we’ve had that conversation in the past few weeks, do you see the difference? :)

Second, I want to be able to look back at this post 5 years from now and laugh about how we thought our lives were so “busy” right now and that keeping our house clean was so out of reach.  We are very aware that with no kids and relatively stress-free lives, we have yet to even scratch the surface of the business and chaos that I’m sure will someday consume us and give us a real reason for fishing for clean underwear straight out of the dryer every morning!

*Note: Our house doesn’t look like this anymore.  We cleaned on Friday.  There is a good chance our house will look like this again by next Friday, though.  There’s no way to know for sure.