taking care of car maintenance!

I attempted all week to get this house clean and truthfully it is impossible to clean up! I am going to need a new plan.
With that said I've been busy doing other things! Namely husband things, like keeping up with the car maintenance. Are you like me? afraid of the man at Jiffy Lube who comes in with this well rehearsed rant of all the things that I should consider. Yuck, I do not like Mr. Jiffy Lube, well nothing against him personally only when it comes to him talking about my car. Luckily today he only wanted me to change my air filter. I said go ahead because last time they wanted to, my husband said no he would do it, and well he hadn't.
After I was done at Jiffy Lube I went to get a new inspection sticker for my car. Ours had expired last month and if I left it up to my husband another month would pass before anyone did anything about it. At the end of my little excursion I was proud of myself for getting things done that would have taken up my husbands whole Saturday. Best part sitting in the silence of the waiting rooms not having any kids to keep out of trouble! I am starting to get use to this time to my self thing!

Lazy!

I have found that I am just a big lazy oaf. Whatever that is! When my kids were home I could never get anything done. I always said well if I had more time or if they would just let me get things done, then this house would sparkle! The fact is without my kids here, I am just lonely and I still don't get anything done! So I guess the real me is just LAZY! Luckily I do not have to remain this way I can teach myself to love keeping a tidy house.
When I was a nanny I kept a tidy house, dinner was on the table each night at 5pm and it never included breakfast items, the laundry was done by noon every day and we had guests all the time. The key difference in being a MOM and a nanny is pay and expectation. As a nanny I was expected to get everything done and was payed well for it! If I added in things like straightening out the linen closet there was much praise involved. I loved that job! As a mom there is little or no praise when you straighten out the linen closet, they repay you by making it messy again. There is no monetary pay either. Which means you have to do it out of the shear joy it brings to you and your family. Which quite often brings me no joy at all. Mostly I am just tired of all the work and none of the satisfaction. I am a people pleaser I enjoy hard work when my employer gives me lots of compliments. Yet in my day to day life as a mom I get no compliments. So how do I learn to pay myself? That is the question?

-I could invite friends over
-play a game of how long will it take for my family to give compliments
-pay myself with things I enjoy

Hmmm, I'll have to think about that. By the way is anyone interested in paying me to keep my own house clean? I didn't think so! So until next time, I'll be trying to motivate myself to clean up this house!