I Need Help Ladies!

Bailey is Ms. Babysitter and has been gone a lot and while missing her has been a big issue an equally big one is that my house is a MESS. I know she does a lot around here but I had no idea just how much. My dishes always need to be done, there are always spare blankets and pillows laying around and the pile of shoes just keeps growing. The bathroom sinks are filthy and there are dust bunnies everywhere. There are piles of laundry in Jacob's room just waiting to be put away and there is a mysterious smell in the fridge. How do you guys do it? Bailey tells me every time she comes home from baby sitting how clean the houses are. Are you guys hiding a maid somewhere or am I truly just domestically challenged? My mother was so clean it was almost compulsive. I used to joke that if my dad got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom she'd make the bed behind him. She was the only woman I know that could have an entire scout troop at her house for an activity (one that they of course enjoyed) and still had a clean house. I need advice, help, suggestions or perhaps the service of my dear friends who like to organize stuff!!!!

What a mess

I was so excited to have saved about $30 at the grocery store today and on the way home I was fantasizing over the many different ways I could spend that. I know that seems silly but I have learned to take pleasure in the simple things. $30 would buy a nice dinner at my favorite Chinese food place or 30 songs for my ipod or pay for some plants for the back yard. I thought about it all the way home. I was pleasantly surprised by the wonderful smell that greeted me as I walked in from the garage and figured it must be the Lord's way of blessing me for having already done 5 loads of laundry. After a few minutes the wonderful smell of laundry changed to a "bit overwhelming" to "something is not right". Sure enough, as I stepped into the laundry room I was met with a sticky blue goo that oozed between my toes. It was one of the rare times I regretting buying Tide in the large 120 load container. The entire bottle had somehow been knocked to the ground and had infiltrated the entire room. It was under the washer, in the cat box, and all over the rug. It took three rolls of paper towels, an extra three loads of laundry, a premature changing of the cat litter and a new bottle of detergent. The grand total came to approximately $30. . . so much for my Chinese food.