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As my husband left for work one day last week he saw on our calendar that I had a playdate scheduled for my daughter. He asked if it was going to be at our house or at their house, and when he learned that it was indeed going to happen here, he took one look around the messy living room and said with a laugh, "Good luck getting this place cleaned up."

Later that morning as the kids played happily in a not so perfectly clean playroom, I sat in the living room drinking coffee with the mother of my daughter's friend (who thankfully is a good friend of mine too). I relayed this story to her and added that I was so thankful to have a friend that I could have over even on laundry day. I will be the first to admit that I do a fair amount of "cleaning for company," but I also relish in the days where our plans include a low key visit from a friend close enough that I don't need to worry too much about the cheerio crumbs or baskets of laundry waiting to be moved through the wash-dry-fold-put away cycle.

I write a lot about cleaning routines and practical tips to keep your home functioning as a well oiled machine-because really that is my goal...even on days when I am too lazy to follow my own advice. But at the heart of it, I'm just like everybody else. My floor has crumbs, my mail needs to be sorted, and my kids occasionally forget to return their school library books on time because I can't keep track of them properly.


 Anyone who is a regular reader of this blog has seen enough "before" pictures of my home to know that I'm not really a clean freak, so much as someone who is just trying to do my best to love my home a little more and make our life a little easier. But I know that sometimes I get invited to someones house, and I see how perfect everything looks, and I start to feel like I'm the only one out there who can't get their act together. I most certainly am not perfect, and sometimes I dont' even pretend to be. Despite what the Nike Tshirt will tell you, sometimes good enough actually IS.