I Am No Susie Housewife

I hate house work, well who doesn't!! I was trying to clean up my kitchen floor yesterday and was getting so frustrated from sweeping my floor and than trying to mop it only to find dog hair! I have come to the conclusion that when you have children and animals it is a never ending battle!! I am no Susie homemaker that is for sure! I love to cook and bake I just don't like the cleaning up part! It is just never ending! Dusting is the worst! What is the point I ask you really? You dust and two seconds later it is all back! My dog has long fur and it doesn't matter what time of year it is she has her fur all over the place. I am always after my kids to pick up after themselves, do they listen, Heck No!! I try to keep my house half way decent, but does anyway care or help me along the way, NO. Dishes are never ending as well even when I have a dish washer there are somethings I just don't put in there and sometimes if you put to much stuff in the dish washer it fills up to fast. I blame my mom for my lack of keeping up. She had O.C.D. really bad!! I can remember growing up and her wanting me to do chores, well I never could get things as clean as her, because after Iwould do what ever chore she had ask me to do she would go back and clean again! My mom's house was always spotless! We had hard wood floors and she would strip and wax them once a month! That is a bit extreme in my books. I think once a year would have sufficed. If there was a speck of anything on the floor she was picking it up. She ironed just about everything! After a meal she would tell me to clear off the table and if I didn't jump up and do it right than and there she would be off in a huff and tell me never mind I will do it myself. I was an only child and I couldn't imagine what it would have been like if she had more than one to contend with!! I think growing up with a mom who was over kill, killed it for me! I know I shouldn't blame my mom, but do you know what it is like to live in the shadow of someone with O.C.D.? Than not doing a good enough job in her eyes that she had to go back and reclean everything! Than I have so much stuff that I don't even know what to do with. Well see I have my stuff and than my mother in law passed away and we have her stuff and my mom passed away and I have all her stuff plus my dad's stuff. I had got a little organized before my mom passed away I had put stuff that I had and wanted to keep in plastic bends and put them away and things were looking pretty good until my mom passed away and I brought her stuff over. I just dont know where to put everything! Christmas time was really something when we went over there the last few years, I would tease her. The kids would be opening up their presents and the paper was all over and I could just tell by looking at my mom she wanted to get up and pick everything up. It drove her crazy to see something on the rug she had to pick it up! I don't know it is a never ending battle that I am just going to have to try and deal with, but I really need help. I need to put my foot down and say to my family I NEED HELP!!! That's my soap box for the day.