Over the course of the past two days, I straightened and organized all the rooms, cleaned our entire house, folded and put away all the laundry, and emptied out the recycling bins. For one brief magical moment before anyone ate anything, dropped anything, wore anything, spilled anything, tracked in anything, played with anything, recycled anything, used anything, or touched anything, I reveled in the blissful feeling of cleanliness and completion. And then...life resumed and the cycle started all over again.
