please don't blame my mom - she's way cleaner than I am!

Well thank you to all you brave blog readers who answered my questions. Wow! I was impressed with your responses. So much so, in fact, that the very next day I washed all the sheets in the house.


So apparently I'm in the minority with that one, and I guess I should have scabies or flesh eating disease or something by now. Good thing I don't! And I guess you are all thankful that you don't have to share a bed with me? (Sorry, Greg) Just don't blame my mom on this one, OK? I'm sure she taught me that I was supposed to wash my sheets somewhere between once a week and once a month (this is the norm, from my online research) and I just forgot or didn't listen or something like that. I plead "I didn't know any better" as my verdict. The only person I ever really remember having a conversation with about this was one of my more cleanly friends, and seriously people, do you think I could count on that response as accurate? This came from a girl who won't use a mop because she thinks they're too dirty (I'm not kidding). So I really thought what I was doing was "appropriate". Guess not. My new goal = wash sheets every couple weeks. (just as an aside, so you know that I'm not a bad mom and all, Asher's sheets get washed usually every week because I can see that they're dirty). So thank you for enlightening me on proper sheet washing protocol. I feel so much more grown up now.


And as for this bit about me being anal, I thought I'd clarify that one for you. For those of you who know me well you know that I am a bit obsessive, but it's more with things being tidy. Everything has it's "place" in my mind, and there is a way things are just supposed to be. The pillows have to be just so on the sofa. The towel has to be hung this way in the bathroom. The stacking toys all have to go in this bin. The toaster has to be put away when we're not using it. The toilet paper has to be coming over the top of the roll. I literally cannot sleep if there are dirty dishes in the sink. I may not have washed my sheets as often as I should have (past tense, ha!), but the bed had to be made every morning. Some may call this obsessive-compulsive, but I like to think that I'm just a tidy girl. And hey, that's an important part of being clean too, right? (Erin, don't burst my bubble on this one by quoting the DSM or something crazy like that!)


And as for the rest of it, I think we're all not too far off from each other, eah? We all suck at flossing (except Andrea and Rachel), we (mostly) clean our floors weekly-ish, with little spot touch ups here and there, and we all spend close to the same on groceries, whether we have baby stuff or pet stuff to buy along with that (how do you do it on so little Andrea?). I'm glad to know that only washing your hair every other day is something that other people do too. I still find it hard though, and my hair is usually in a pony tail on day 2. But I'm a mom, so that's how I roll.


And the vegetable/fruit issue. I'm going to go with majority rule and say tomato, apple, pepper as the sequence. Size can't be a good indicator for this stuff because the one strawberry is the same size as a bunch of grapes and a corn on the cob. Hopefully we won't confuse Asher too much with this pretend food set we have.


So thanks for those of you who answered. It was so fun to read your responses! I know there's many more of you who read who didn't answer, but that's cool. Seriously, it killed me to put my answers up and this is my blog!


Signed,
the "sheet-redeemed-tidy" girl