Anyone who has kids knows just how hard it can be to clean a house, let alone keeping a house clean.  

I can have the entire living room clean and within minutes of the kids playing in it, you never would have even known I had cleaned.  

If you read my post on how to clean when overwhelmed then you know after having kids it was a struggle for me to get the house clean most days, but I started to take things one day at a time and have little victories each day moving towards my overall goal of a clean house.  

That’s where my ‘routine’ came in, I’m using the term routine a little loosely because I definitely have days where it doesn’t go as planned, but that’s motherhood right?! We roll with the punches.  

Getting your house to the ‘clean’ point in all actuality is the easy part (I know it doesn’t seem like it) but in reality, the ‘keeping it up’ part is by far the hardest. 

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