Some Things Mom Just Does Best

There are some things that moms just do better; one of them is cleaning.  It doesn’t seem to matter that we are 21 and 22 years old and have lived on our own for over 3 years; we still can’t manage to keep our house clean.  It is almost as if there are little fairies that come and mess everything up right after we clean to make us appreciate all our moms do around the house.

For example, several weeks ago we spent several hours scrubbing our floors in the kitchen and dining room.  We learned that the tile is not a grey stone but rather a creamy stone.  We were so proud of our work, but only a few days later our tiles were grey again.  And it is not like we are messy people; our floors just don’t stay clean.

If you look closely, you can see the darker, dirty tile in the area I am in....

Part of that may be due to a little problem Emily discovered today.  Turns out that when 5 girls live in the same house they shed their hair; and I mean A LOT!  The vacuum didn’t seem to be sucking up any of the dirt on the carpet so Emily decided to turn it over and found a literal web of hair spun so tightly into the bottom brush that nothing could pass through into the vacuum bag.

We proceeded to spend the next 30 minutes cutting it out and ended up with a monster of a hairball.  Good news is the vacuum started to suck dirt off the floor again.  The bad news is that it no longer disposes the dirt in the vacuum bag and spits everything out again every minute or two.  Emily took vacuuming by hand to a whole new level by periodically picking up the little piles of dirt the vacuum left behind.

The shoe is there to help you put the size of the hair ball into perspective

Moral of the story is maybe one day when we become moms and actually have cleaning equipment that works properly, we will be able to keep a perfectly clean house.  Until then, we consider a dirty floor normal and are much more thankful for the effort our moms put in to keeping the house clean.