Mrs. Clean or Mommy??

So anyone who has known me during the 2+ years Steve and I have been married you know that my house was not the cleanest on the block. During our first year of marriage I worked 4 days a week and the weekends were our time so I didn't focus a lot on cleaning. My bathrooms would get done twice a month if I was lucky (yea I know gross!), floors would sweeped every other day sometimes every day, but would only be mopped once a week, and a load of laundry would get done only if it was absolutely needed! I would fear someone coming over unannounced. In fact one time the group commanders wife (who was amazing and would NEVER judge anyone) called to ask if she could come by and pick up the graduation folder from me. I couldn't tell her no, but I pretty much broke out in a panic speed cleaning. You would think this would have taught me a lesson, but it didn't! In fact it only got worse when we moved to Colorado and I got further along in my pregnancy. I can't believe I am going to admit this but there was a point when our bathrooms went almost a month without being cleaned, and I am sure the floors went longer then that! I did however deep clean the house before my mom came to visit in December, and of course Grace's room was always spotless! After she was born I had reason to keep up the cleaning a ton of people were coming to see her. When the company died down so did my clean house. I would spend time catching up on sleep rather then cleaning, but some where in the past 4 months I have done a total 180! My house is clean (not spotless) most days. I don't know if it's because Grace is getting older and I don't want her crawling in filth, or if the I am so tired of a dirty house that I decided to do something about it. I no longer fear someone showing up because I feel my house is presentable. I vacuum at min once a day and the floors are mopped no less then 3 times a week. I dust, clean bathrooms, and wipe down windows etc weekly. I have spent the last 15 minutes trying to figure out what load of laundry I could throw together tomorrow, because really everything is pretty much clean. I have a monthly cleaning list of things such as the fridge , the couches, etc. Even the backyard gets cleaned up on a weekly basis. I am not writing this blog to toot my own horn (ok maybe just a little tooting!), but rather to share how sometimes something changes in you that you don't even know is happening. For once I feel like I am justified in relaxing on the couch at night, because I feel like I have accomplished SOMETHING!