Ready for company or The Quick Pick Up

If there is one thing that this house suffers from, it is that our house is full of clutter. It is something I personally have struggled with since I was a kid. Oh, you can walk around the house for the most part without too much trouble. But there are piles of everything sort of scattered hither and thither. And although I have places where things go - shoes by the front door on the rack, coats on the hook, backpacks under the table ... they very rarely seem to get there. I suppose if I nagged about it every day it would happen, but I hate being the fish wife. I would really like everyone to put stuff away. The good side of this is that when the kids don't put stuff away, and they can't find it, I tell them it's not my responsibility to keep track of everyone else's stuff.

I am hoping that the girls really start to pick up this, because being Oscar to someone else's Felix is a recipe for disaster.

Today's life lesson is ( how to establish a simple cleaning routine and find a way to stick to it )