Am I a dirt bag??

[xkatyx]

my lovely mum has come over to help clean up today because I have a tummy bug (been up all night getting sick)
All 5 kiddies are also not well ages 9,6,1,14 weeks twins.
The last week it's Been tummy bugs colds and coughs.
So my mum comes over this morning to lend a helping hand but instead telling me how dirty I am, I must admit since the twins have been born things have been slack towards the major clean I.e skirting boards, windows etc, but everyday the bathrooms and toilets all get bleached, and everywhere gets wiped hovered washed everyday!!!

I'm feel awful today as it is and then being told I should do all those jobs at night when Kids are in bed :( I don't finish till gone 9 at night as it is and then exhausted ready for bed for the night feeds.

Should I do more am I a dirt bag!??

I am defenetly embracing the inner dirt bag today!!

Also praying dh won't go to work today :(

you sound fine
your mum sounds more like a pain than a help!

Your mum would be horrified by my place, and I only have the one baby. How on earth do you even manage to put your clothes on the right way in the mornings?

Skips off into the sunshine with baby, leaving dusty skirting boards to their own devices

It Is rather funny though, it has taken my mum and dh and older kids all helping out to do what I do ON MY OWN everyday!!!

And they babies are completely out of routine , kids haven't had lunch yet and bottles haven't been washed.

Don't like to blow my own trumpet but all that and washing plus dinner would all be done by now and I would also be enjoying sunshine with non ratty (kept on routine) babies :)

I'm gonna to snigger myself to sleep, whilst trying not to throw up.

Dust if you must, but wouldn't it be better,
to paint a picture or write a letter,
bake a cake or plant a seed,
ponder the difference between want and need?

Dust if you must, but there's not much time,
with rivers to swim and mountains to climb,
music to hear and books to read, friends to
cherish and life to lead.

Dust if you must, but the world's out there
With the sun in your eyes, the wind in your hair,
A flutter of snow, a shower of rain.
This day will not come around again.

Dust if you must, but bear in mind,
old age will come and it's not kind.
And when you go - and go you must -
You, yourself, will make more dust!

You sound like superwoman to me! Take care and get well soon.

It is a Mum thing the skirting boards my Mum pulls out all her furniture once a week to clean the skirting[she lives alone] You are not a dirtbag and now I am actually looking at my skirting it will take more than dusting !!

Your mum sounds like a bitch to be honest. When I had one 14 week old and no other children my house was incredibly messy. I look at photos now and blush. Even now with happy go lucky toddler the place is like a bomb hit it. I don't care. Does your DP/DH do any housework? Or would your mother frown upon that too?

I also have twins. I'm amazed that you have found the time to feed the older DCs, never mind bleaching the toilet, wiping surfaces and hoovering on a daily basis. If your mum is that concerned then maybe she could come round on a daily basis to clean your house from top to bottom.

No, you are not a dirt bag. You are a busy mother with two very young babies and a stomach bug. Hope you all feel better soon.

Seriously, don't sweat it.

If you can afford it, it's worth getting a cleaning agency in to do the stuff you don't get round to - windows, oven etc. Even if it's twice a year!

Short term, a long handled fluffy duster is a godsend for skirting boards. It's something a 9 and 6 year old can do as well.

My mum Is a huge clean freak she always has been, her house is beautiful. But other than keep on at me at bring a "dirtbag" she really is a fab mum.

And on the plus side my house is clean and hopefully germ free.

I think maybe it was just how she was brought up as very much the housewife etc.

I feel terrible having a moan now .. But i still won't be cleaning my skirting boards!!!!!

Me and dh make a good team when he isn't working he will do bath times and entertain kids etc

Please don't clean you skirting boards! Your children are only young once, this time is so precious, and you sound like you're doing an amazing job already.

erm you have 5 children including a 1 year old and 14 week old twins?

You deserve a medal love not a bollocking from your mum - my mum seems to think she can tell me off about things, I know she doesn't mean any harm it's just her way so I ignore her but say naughty words in my head

If I were you I would 'get a tummy bug' next week, the week after that and the week after that and have the duster ready when she comes :)

p.s I have no children yet (DC1 currently residing in my tummy) and my skirting boards are filthy!