Okay so this isn’t for all you Brea’s out there from Desperate Housewives, it’s for all us who want to be a version of her just not as anal!!! Growing up my mom was such a neat freak to the point that if you wanted to you could eat your dinner off the floor, I am not kidding that is how clean she kept the house!! My oldest sister took after our mom in that department, I on the other hand not so much. I am far from letting the house be a piggy mess, but laundry does pile up, some dishes may be in the sink and the stoves are not always sparkling!!

However I gotta say there is something intriguing about all the Brea’s of the world! The way they actually LIKE to clean!! I mean they really enjoy it!! WTF??!!! I was watching Oprah the other day and she was visiting a Polygamist compound and she noticed there weren’t any toys for the kids to play with and they said what a waste of time to play…they would rather be working, cleaning!! Now I wouldn’t go that far, but when they said they had fun cleaning, whether that is actually true in their case or not, I thought ‘wow, that’s what I want, for cleaning to be fun.’ Really I am being serious! I want to change this about myself, because although I do clean the house I LOATHE it each and every time, DESPISE it!! To try and make it a little more enjoyable I will turn the TV on and during commercials do the cleaning!! Now the suckey thing about that of course is it ends up taking way too much time to clean!!

So this past weekend I tried my new approach to becoming more efficient and learning to look forward to cleaning, that meant not just cleaning during commercials and having a smile on my face. I thought instead of loathing this I should change my thinking…my thoughts were this is not just cleaning this is about taking care of our home, our sanctuary…not to the point where you are a freak about it and a few crumbs will drive you insane, but to the point where you don’t hate the chore or even look at it as a chore but a stress reliever, something that makes you feel good and so far so good! I am sure this will be a process, change always is but shit it takes more energy to hate the cleaning than it does to just embrace it, and that helps this to be A Wonderful Life!!!