Since I became I single mom, I don’t have as much time cleaning up the house the way I did when I was plain single. I am now embarrassed to invite visitors to my house because its one big mess. I even call it a dump now because I can barely pick-up the broom to sweep the floors and when I do have time to clean-up in less than five minutes its a total mess again.
Why? Because I am living with a home wrecker! No, not that kind of wrecker but literally a wrecker who likes to break and disorient things. My daughter loves mess and likes to break stuff, its driving me insane but I can’t yell all the time or restrain her hands to make her stop.
When she sees new things I bought like make-up and forgot to “hide” it in a safe place, I will have to accept the fact, and break-out for a bit, that I will not be able to use that make-up ever because its emptied out.
My daughter has autism and no matter how many times you tell her no she will eventually forget it if you forgot to tell her that its not allowed. These door hangers won’t work with her either because she can’t read!
For my sanity, I developed a hide-and-seek ritual at home, I hide my things so she can’t see them and break them. But because I am too occupied with other task I juggle everyday I often than not forgot where I hid them and so I get frantic disorganizing things in the house.
Are you getting the picture?
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