
Last week I talked about the constancy of motherhood. Today I wanted to talk about the flip side of that.
I can clean my house in 25 minutes.
I have become incredibly efficient. As long as nobody’s home to distract me or undo my work as I go along, I can unload, reload, & start the dishwasher, sort & start laundry, and pick up toys & run a vacuum with amazing speed. {Today’s post is about efficiency. Not humility. Obviously.}
I know what you’re thinking. Nobody’s home? When is nobody home?
Here’s my dirty little secret.
I do it on my lunch hour.
Not every day. Not even every week. But some days when I feel overwhelmed and I just need to do something to feel like I have some semblance of control, I go home and clean my house.
Because for me, few things foster feelings of control and peacefulness more than walking into a home that is relatively tidy at the end of the day. The alternative is walking into a home that screams “WELCOME BACK FROM A LONG DAY. LOOK AT ALL THIS WORK YOU HAVE TO DO!” {Which, to be clear, I do come home to with regularity.}
So.
On those days I go home. 17 1/2 minutes to drive there, 17 1/2 minutes to drive back, and 25 minutes to get my house back in order.
I know running home during lunch isn’t realistic for everyone, but I do think efficiency is a fantastic superpower we develop when we become parents.
Give us mamas a few minutes, and we’ll show you how to get things done.
Everyone has their own efficiency story. What’s yours?