Good Enough

I have come to the realization that there are SO many sentences I can begin with "It's funny that/how..." and end with "...when you have kids." So many sentences in fact I could easily write a book with each chapter beginning with the sentence "It's funny that/how . . . when you have kids." in which, of course, the . . . would be filled in with something different. So I thought I would write about one of them....

It's funny that your definition of clean changes when you have kids. -------
Before kids, I had to have my house a deep, sparkly clean all the time, no exceptions. I have come along ways, believe me. Now I am perfectly satisified with my house being "good enough clean". It's clean and picked up but not sparkly clean daily. It'll get a deep sparkle clean every once in awhile but most of the time it's "good enough clean". I don't want that to sound like my house isn't very clean because it is. It's probably cleaner than most would consider "good enough clean". But I have a problem, yes I admit it. I am a clean freak. I get greatly stressed if something isn't clean. But I have relaxed and accepted my house isn't going to get deeply cleaned like it used to and quite honestly as often as it should. Oh well. I don't care. Good enough clean is good enough for me and most people I know, especially mommies who understand. No one complains or makes comments when they come over anyways, or maybe that's just because they are being nice? :) You used to never find dust in my house. However with a very active 2 year old and an extremely active 7 month old, there's going to be dust and if I don't want to spend time with my children, enjoy them, teach them things, then I could make my house the always dust free house it used to be. Instead it will have dust every now and then. More than I like to admit. But being with my children is much, much more important. They grow up too fast and I want to savor it as much as possible and enjoy life with them. It's so wonderful to enjoy life through the eyes of a child. So until I have an empty nest (tear), my house will be good enough clean and we will be okay with that and very, very happy!