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How To Clean When You Don't Feel Like It: Cleaning Motivation for Finding Joy In The Mundane
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Feb 28, 2025
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hi friends welcome to Motherhood and homemaking I'm so happy that you are here because today I want to share some
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motivation for you in cleaning your home especially for those of us who kind of just don't feel like it because I know
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we can all get that way especially in the cold winter month so while I am
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cleaning up my kitchen loading the dishwasher and cleaning around the kitchen table in the family room area I
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want to change your perspective of cleaning cleaning our home is often seen
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as like a chore and whenever we look at it that way well of course we're probably going to dread it most of the
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time especially if we are cleaning up behind others because cleaning up behind ourselves well that's one thing but when
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we're cleaning up behind others sometimes it can be unpredictable sometimes it can feel repetitive because
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why on Earth do we have to keep on cleaning up the same things over and over again shouldn't our husband be picking up behind himself shouldn't our
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kids be cleaning up behind themselves but there will come times where just like we make messes they might leave
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messes as well and as the Homemaker and as the wife we are caught to serve our
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family in several different ways if you telling yourself that you're cleaning up behind your spouse and your children all
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day then yeah it can out kind of rude when you're constantly cleaning up and they're constantly messing up but I want
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to shift your perspective a little bit what if cleaning became less about following behind and picking up behind
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others and less about perfection and more about creating a space of Peace joy
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and comfort and functionality for your
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[Music] family I thought that today's clean with me was the perfect demonstration for the
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motivation that I'm sharing on today because you will see in several parts of
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this video that there are some things I'm kind of cleaning under and around for instance if my husband leaves his
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laptop on the kitchen table or his coffee cup on the side of the sink certain things like this used to really
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really Bugg me because how can I clean a table with the laptop on and why is the cup on the counter and not in the sink
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but when I realized that the reason why the laptop is on the table is because my husband enjoys working at that table and
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when I realize that he gets a sense of peace and it's kind of just easier for him to go about it that way I'm more
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happy you know to help and this way he doesn't feel like he has to go off to an office to work he can do it right at the
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kitchen table right in the midst of me cooking or cleaning or talking his ear
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off and right in the midst of my son talking his ear off and running around the house the baby girl screaming but if
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my husband can still find peace and comfort in working at our kitchen table
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that brings me joy making sure that things like that that comes easy to him is possible actually I don't see it as
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cleaning up behind him I see it as this is his ease this is his convenience this
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is his comfort and I want that to be a thing to him because otherwise he'll hide away in his office which is in the
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basement where I wouldn't see him half the day and the same thing goes for having his coffee cup on the side of the
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counter he told me that the reason he doesn't put it in the sink is because he comes back for that same cup multiple
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times throughout the day now imagine if instead of having the same coffee cup he
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was dirtying up multiple dishes because if he would have just put that coffeee cup inside of the sink then that meant
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he would have went back for a second cup which create more dishes for me to wash or let's think about the fact that by
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making coffee at home we're also saving money so basically I'm trying to inspire
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you to look at some of the things in your home that bugs you and that bothers you especially when it comes to cleaning
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behind others and try to use it and challenge yourself to shift your
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perspective
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another good one is children for instance their toys are always all over the place for one I highly recommend
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that you utilize a toy rotation system or even try to declutter out some of the
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toys that they are using maybe donate them and things like that but for those toys that they're still playing with is
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truly a blessing that they are because they can be doing other things they could be scrolling social media on their
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phone they could be playing video games all day watching television all day it could be a situation where maybe we
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can't even afford to provide toys for our children so when we look at those things in a form of a blessing as
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opposed to an annoyance we can really shift our perspective not to mention
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when our children mess up the home with toys or anything it leaves a really
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really easy way for us to use it as an option to teach them some responsibilities ways that you can help
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people that you care about you can help me out by cleaning up your toys not only does it teach them responsibility
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because you are to clean up behind yourself but it also teaches them that it's nice and kind to help people so
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that they're not picking up their toys because they know it annoys you I have to clean this up because mom's going to
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be annoyed that I keep throwing my toys down but more so it's I'm going to pick this up because I want to it's my way of
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showing mom that I appreciate all that she
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does if we didn't have those everyday things then we wouldn't have these
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moments and these options to teach our children to disciple them in the way that God intends for us too and all the
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while while we are tending to the home and our spouses are providing for us
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every day we wouldn't even be able to stay home and clean up the home if we were out and about working so I also
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like to look at cleaning just as my children can look at a way of cleaning
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as showing okay I respect what she does and I appreciate her we can do the same thing for our spouses and say hey I'm
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going to clean this up just to show him like Hey I appreciate what you're doing especially on days where maybe they are
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having a hard time or they might be having a difficult day because any of us who have ever been in the workforce no
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we can have very difficult days and my spouse I don't know if yours is similar but he doesn't always voice when he's
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having a bad day because he just doesn't complain a lot so I wouldn't be able to tell if he's having a bad day but by
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picking up behind him and making sure he has fresh coffee fresh laundry and things like that it's my way of saying
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maybe you're having a bad day maybe this will make you feel a little bit better and that way we can you know help each
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other [Music]
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yeah it's definitely an AC of service and that's okay because God he wanted us
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to serve he told us that whatever you do work hardily as for the Lord and not for
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men so we're not serving our spouse and our children by cleaning our home but
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instead we are serving and glorifying God which he has instructed us to do
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maybe play some worship music think of your cleaning as your way of worshiping the Lord and do it at the same time time
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and say hey God I'm cleaning up my house right now and I hope that you will help me to rejoice and be glad in this and do
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it not for men but for [Music]
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you when you approach cleaning as an offering to God it transform what would normally be seen as a chore into
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something meaningful and in that it's it can make it more beautiful even wiping
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counters can be an act of worship you can pray out loud as you clean and thank God for your home for your family that
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he has blessed you with imagine asking and praying for something and then when you get it the thing that you've been
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praying about you're now grumbling and complaining about and so I get it this isn't all easy we are still going to
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have days and I have many many many of these days and praying has helped me but changing my mindset about it and
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shifting my perspective on it is definitely a good way to help me feel a little bit better on those days when I
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just do not feel like [Music]
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cleaning another thing you can do is Anchor your cleaning to something that
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you already enjoy doing for instance I started this Vlog off very very brave
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because who begins cleaning without coffee I feel like that's Brave and I
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was being very brave but not for long you will see soon that I had to stop and
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pause and fix myself some coffee but having coffee is something that I already do you can anchor a part of
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cleaning to something you already do for instance if you are going to make a pot of coffee in the morning anyway use that
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time to also wipe around the coffee pot and wipe the coffee pot down down maybe
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wipe the sink you know so that it's already anchored to a habit that you already have making it less like
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noticeable if that makes s another thing that you can do is while you're bathing your children when they're at that age
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where you can't leave them in the bathroom alone but they can sit up but you still have to keep an eye on them
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while they are taking their bath maybe try tidying up the bathroom sink or the pantry inside of the bathroom or
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restocking some of your Essentials like filling up the soap dish another thing that I love to do is while folding line
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I like to watch a YouTube video for motivation even like right now while I'm cleaning up the house sometimes I like
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to put on a cleaning video in the background which I hope my video can serve that purpose for you guys as well
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but when I am on the treadmill in the morning I don't particularly like working out but I do like a good morning
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podcast so instead of getting up and just hopping on the treadmill I hop on the treadmill because I enjoy listening
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to my podcast and it's the perfect way to do so to just put on my head phones dim the lights h on the treadmill and I
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have anchored working out to listening to a podcast which I've already you know
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enjoyed doing in the first place that's another thing you can try when you kind of just don't feel like cleaning I'm basically trying to share some different
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things here are some unique perspective in ways that you can begin to enjoy
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cleaning up the home as well as some biblical perspective ways that I can encourage you where you may need it
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let's just piggy back off of what I mentioned before about involving your kids there are definitely some ways that
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we can get help from our children teach your children that cleaning isn't a
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chore it isn't a punishment but it is a way to take care of the things that God has blessed you with teaching your
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children how to Steward the things that God have given them early in life will
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help them to learn how to do it as they get older and this is this is really really important I feel like this wasn't
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instill in me but you have to take care of what you
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have imagine you get a new toy and you tear that toy up so bad that 5 days
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later now the kid doesn't want to play the toy anymore because even though he used to be a good toy now it's all ruined and messed up the same thing goes
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for things that we have we teach our children that we ought to take care of the things that God has blessed us with
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not only are we teaching them that it increases the longevity of it but also we are teaching them to be thankful for
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the things that God has given us so if God has blessed you with a warm bath to sleep in do your part and make up your
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bed it's a great way to say Thank you Lord
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next I want to talk about decluttering because if you don't like cleaning then the best way to go about
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that is to just own less stuff the more pictures you have hanging up on your
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wall the more pictures you have have to dust off the more laundry you have the more you have to wash the more you have
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to wash the more you have to fold the more toys you have the more you have to declutter the more you have to clean
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that's just how it goes when you have five pairs of pants in your drawer yeah
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you have to wash them every 5 days but you're only going to probably take 5 minutes to fold up the laundry that you
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are washing and when you have 10 pair you're probably going to wait five extra
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days to wash your laundry so now when you're folding you now have 10 pairs of pants 10 t-shirts 10 pairs of
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underclothes and now you have a ton of a lot more of clothes to F the best way to have less to clean is simply to just
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declutter cleaning is easier when there's less stuff to clean so when you are tidying as you do so ask yourself is
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this something that we need does it bring me joy or silver purpose is it worth the space that it takes up
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[Music] here's the thing my husband finds joy in grinding
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up coffee beans I do not it makes a big mess in my opinion maybe we need to find
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one that's a little bit more efficient I don't know but we have this coffee grinder and I feel like it just takes up
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more time it takes up space it does not bring me any joy and fact it annoys me
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does it serve a purpose yeah for me probably not but for my husband he prefers it this way so this is something
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that I would love to declutter and so in that way I want you to think of things as well you can set a
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donation box right by your door make it cute a nice cute little basket something
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that you're actually going to want to use and as you're cleaning up whenever you are cleaning everything that you're
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doing everything that you're cleaning say hm does this bring me joy does it serve a purpose how often do we use it
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is it worth it if the answer to those questions
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majority are a no you ought to go ahead and put it in the little basket and can find somewhere to donate it because in
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this way trust me it'll bring you so much more joy I love decluttering and
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this is something that I have just started maybe a year or two ago I want to say I'm getting better and better at
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it and life is getting easier and easier I must say another thing that I find
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helpful when I just kind of don't have a ton of energy is to focus on areas that make the biggest difference in my home
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so if I really don't feel like painting and I probably only want to DED 10 minutes of cleaning I said hm what is
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going to make the biggest difference for me typically it's the kitchen or a
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laundry if I fold up my laundry I feel like that already um helps me out a ton
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of a lot because now I don't have to go digging through the back to find clothes to wear my husband doesn't have to do that now I don't have laundry bags piled
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all over the floor laundry spilling out so laundry is one and then the other one
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is my kitchen because I'm in the kitchen majority of the day in fact we all pass through the kitchen a lot so for me it's
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definitely going to be my kitchen I just feel like it makes the whole house feel fresher especially because our kitchen
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is connected to the kitchenet area where we eat it's connected to our family room where the family normally hangs out it's
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connected to the hallway the hallway goes into the living room the kitchen is that area that's just like the central
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place of our home so yes that is probably going to make the biggest impact of cleaning so if you don't feel
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like cleaning I would say start start there and if you still have a little bit of motivation then keep going and if you
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don't then go ahead and look at the cleaning playlist that I have on my
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channel and hopefully that gives you a little bit more motivation as well
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I have really been leaning into slow and intentional living life with kids and
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homeschooling cleaning isn't always top priority and
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this is something my husband told me when I was like extremely frustrated he was like you do not have to clean right
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now and I'm like it has to get done I had to realize what he was trying to say it's like it's not that we don't need it it's that sometimes it's not important
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at that moment you know sometimes our children are more important our spouse is more important homeschooling is more
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important there are things that are sometimes top priority and if you are in that situation where the reason why you
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can't get it done and the reason why you don't feel like cleaning is because you've been up all night long with your teething baby or because you have been
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busy all day long homeschooling that is completely okay give yourself some Grace
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and lean more into those moments that are a priority for you right now and find the joy in that and the contentment
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in [Music]
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that remember that a lived in home is a loved in home you can always look around
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and see little things in your home that point towards love again the the toys
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that have been played with the baking utensils on the counter from when you were baking muffins or when you were
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cooking breakfast for your family a kitchen table filled with all of the things from homeschooling from devotions
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with my husband from him working at the table from them eating lunch you can always see little bits of Love sprinkled
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all around the house so in the moment right now while I am cleaning I kind of
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just left some things like the little table next to the recliner that little table it looks a little messy and
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cluttered on that table my husband has his little box of tissue for the cold winter season he has his iPad there he
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keeps his Bible studies there he keeps his laptop there this is another place where he likes to get up in the morning
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and go sit and just get some work done because it brings him joy and peace I
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would much rather that little table stays cluttered than him feel like he has to go downstairs into the basement
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to work where we probably won't see him he probably won't get a whole lot of sunlight you know so figure out which is
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top priority for you when it comes to the cleaning and the decluttering and give yourself some Grace in that
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way my rule is keep it sanitized keep it like dust free disinfected and if that
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is done then I feel like the rest of it you can definitely go easy on yourself it doesn't have to be perfect I'm really
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really really encouraging you to just surrender to Perfection things are not
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have to be perfect it just it just it just doesn't so the final way that I want to encourage you in cleaning when
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you just don't feel like it is to meditate on some scripture while you are
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cleaning use that time to reflect on God's promises and truths 1 Thessalonians 5:18 says give thanks in
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all circumstances for this is the wheel of God in Christ Jesus for you Psalms
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51:10 says create me a clean heart oh God and renew a right Spirit Within Me 1
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Corinthians 14:33 says for God is not a god of disorder but of Peace this just
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reminds you to find peace in God and not in external resources I would love for you to check out the Vlog that I posted
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last week if you need a bit more insights on finding God for peace and not relying on external res sources but
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cleaning just becomes much more meaningful when pair it with moments of spiritual renewal and it just it just
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works I have looked to so many different things for motivation when I don't feel like it especially when it comes to Hom
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making and cleaning and through and through I'm always LED back to the same
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greater thing and that's God and it works it works every time
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some things that I just want you to remember is that cleaning your home isn't just about tidying a physical
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space it's about creating an environment where your family can flourish and where God's peace can dwell I want you to
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start small and focus on what matters and give yourself Grace throughout the process remembering that the goal is not
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Perfection surrender to Perfection it is faithfulness in serving your family that
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glorifies God in the everyday moments of life now in case you guys have been wondering where are my children while
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I'm doing all of this cleaning my son is kind of just been running about and my daughter started off inside of her
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infant swing the grco swing which she truly loves it she's been loving That Swing since she was 2 weeks old she's
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now 6 months old and still loving That Swing but now she's moved I have her in the bassinet and that bassinet does
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lower but she's kind of content for a very small amount of time inside the bath andet so I basically just utilize
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you know swings and bassinets and play gems and bouncers and I kind of just rotate them as she gets bored that
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doesn't work I will wear her and if I can't wear her then I'll ask my husband
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to take her you know you just you just do what you can when you got the little ones and it wasn't always this easy
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again she's 6 months in the beginning it just took a whole lot of Grace and not prioritizing cleaning sometimes we're
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now getting to the place where she can be content for a little bit longer and
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then we're going to have to be moving on to childproofing the home because she's almost at the stage where she just wants
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to move around a whole lot more but she's not crawling yet so I could probably lay her in the middle of the
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floor and she'll be okay for a little while on the rug or on a PL mat but yeah we're going to be doing a lot of baby
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proofing soon so if you want to see that then go ahead and comment below and let
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me know and I'll share some child proofing with you guys
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I would never give more than I could handle on my own but I don't know if I
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believe that to be [Music] true cuz there been some times when I've
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been all alone and wanted to give up but you
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helped me stand
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yeah God he used you shine right through
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you in ways you will never know so many ways that you'll never
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know mountain move bulletproof yeah you made me
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strong you had a faith that I'll never
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know no you had a Fai that'll never
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[Music] you prayed away rainy days even kept a
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smile if they stayed cuz either way you stood on the Rock and not on the sand
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not on the sand sweet memories of all the little things you did to show me
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love and you help you me still yes you did yeah
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God he used you shine right through
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you in ways you will never know so many ways that you'll never
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know mountain move bulletproof yeah you're Made Me
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Stronger you had a faith that'll never
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know yeah you had a fi that'll
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[Music] never Kings will rise and fall bending
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for the fame Seasons come and go and time will
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bring some pain but if there's one thing that I
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know you will always remain the same
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[Music] yeah no you'll never
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change I do hope that you found some motivation in this video as it pertains
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to cleaning and that it speaks to your heart as a homemaker and helps you to tackle the messes with purpose and to
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maybe change your perspective a little bit and find ways to gain encouragement
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and peace but you just really don't feel like taking care of the cleaning and the homem making that we kind of just have
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to do every single day let me know what you thought Down Below in the comment section and if you
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