Today we had to clean up. Friends coming for dinner tonight, and a lazy daughter who has been home all week and not lifted a finger means it was high time for the weekly clean up. We used to have a cleaner, but she stopped before summer, and so we are inbetween help at the moment.
Sometimes I entertain ideas of cleaning as a family activity we can all do on a saturday morning, after all it doesn't take long, especially if all 4 help, but it will never happen,
My daughters, who are of an age where they would be household slaves in some countries, do not do tidying up or cleaning. And my Husband always has to make such a big show of helping out.
He crashes about, and moans and groans, so we all know he is having to do something, and then he will only half do the job anyway.
m1cvg asked me in my post about passion in marriage if my husband and I are friends. I think we are to a degree, but we are not a good team. At work I have no problems with team work, but with my husband, we always argue, whatever it is. I could never work in a business with him, that is for certain.
So the only passion this morning was passionate anger, and I know it would just be easier to do the cleaning myself and be done with it. But is that really fair I wonder, when I am the one who has the most stressful and long working day of us all, every day 
Next week I will advertise for a cleaner again, and harmony may return
