Some of us really need to have our spaces clean, it is just who we are. I have come to accept that it is my hang up to need to have everything in its place and I try my best not to inflict my housecleaning on everyone else that surrounds me that doesn't feel the need to be tidy. I keep my area of the world as I see fit and it is fine if no one else subscribes to the same belief system. With age a certain amount of wisdom descends upon you, I wasn't always quite as accepting.

I have a rather large brood a six pack to be exact. Five girls and one lonely boy make up the six pack. They range in age from 29 to 16. When the 29 year old was 16, I was a totally different parent. I had been let's say regimented, I had to be I was plainly out numbered. Everybody was up and at em early Saturday morning to clean. We divided tasks and chores according to age and ability and handed out the cleaning supplies, a great portion of the day was dedicated to vacuuming, serious cleaning. My oldest child could use a cordless vacuum with the best of them by the time she was 8. We scrubbed and scoured, swept and mopped, vacuumed and dusted the day away. They hated it and I, well I adored a clean house

Three of the six pack are married, they are wonderful strong women college educated, three of them moms with kids of their own, and they're all four homeowners with beautifully kept homes. Sometimes only sometimes I feel a bit bad for instilling my "everything has a place motto" in them because they appear weary. They have careers and husbands and family demands and they follow the Saturday ritual to a tee. I try now to tell them that it's ok to let stuff go a little, no one is looking, they could relax a while and no one will notice, but I did my job well, they wear themselves thin making sure everything was in its place.

I am a different parent now, whether by way of self discovery or exhaustion I am not sure. I like to think self discovery has taught me a thing or two, but secretly I realize those kids simply wore me out. I am lax now to the tenth degree, oh I still love a clean house, and nevertheless keep my personal space clean, but the Saturday rituals have long left the agenda. The two (one is off at college) that are left home are just a bit different I realized recently exactly how different they are.

I told my 16 year old daughter to help with some vacuuming in hard to reach areas for the upstairs for me and presented her to our new cordless handheld vacuum. She appeared cordial toward the vacuum when I left to run some errands. Upon my return the handheld vacuum was still on the top landing exactly where the introduction was made. I requested her presence in the hall, exactly where she appeared immediately. I asked what had happened with the vacuum, I believed they were able to work together; after all I did add a certain amount of fanfare with the introduction. Well it would seem my 16 year old daughter couldn't use the vacuum. She was confused by how to turn it on! Oh yes times have changed for me.

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