How do you do it?!

I get this question a lot.

Most of the time, it's from someone who has stopped by the house for an interview, or a friend who has come over for dinner.

"Oh my gosh!" they say. "How do you keep it so clean and clutter free??"

Ha. Hahahahahaha. Ha!

I don't. True story. If you walk in to my house between the hours of 7am and 7pm, it looks as though a bomb went off. Clothes, toys, sippy cups, and various other toddler accouterments are scattered willy-nilly over every surface. There are dirty dishes piled up in the sink, and food crumbs all over the table. Clean diapers litter the floor (the baby's favorite game is to drag them all off the changing table shelf and throw them as far as he can) and it's generally, well, a mess.

Case in point:

Thankfully, every day I get to work cleaning, and organizing, and straightening up from the activities of the day. The mess is held at bay, at least for a few hours, and I can go to sleep knowing that I don't have to wake up at 5am to get it all done. I can't stop working for the day until the house is straightened up. Slightly neurotic, yes, knowing that it's all going to be trashed the next day, but that's the way I work. 

After an hour or so of frantic, mad-dash work, it looks like this.

This I can live with.

So now you know. I DON'T have a clean house most of the time. I never will, at least as long as I'm running this business. There's just no way.  

I'm learning to be okay with that.