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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A good nanny will clean up entirely.

However, as a neat-freak myself, I can tell you that when the kid arrives, you will HAVE to de-prioritize cleanliness and organization. Seriously. Kids are constant mess makers, and babies require so much attention it can be hard to keep up with your usual good habits. Just hang in there; someone once told me, “the mess won’t be there forever; one day you’ll look up and realize it’s gone - and your child is grown.”[/quote]

I wouldn't say you have to deprioritize cleaning/organization -- I still prioritize it and for me it's essential to keeping my sanity. I'm raising a very tidy, organized kid too. In our house, cleaning up before dinner and making sure things have a place to go to helps us all stay sane.

But you do have to lower your standards. Especially around cleaning. With organization, I find it's not that hard to stay organized as long as you don't acquire too much stuff (and if you have a super organized home, you probably won't because it means you are used to getting rid of things you don't use). But no way will your house ever be as clean with a kid as it was without. I do things that I think a lot of people would consider mega-overkill (like vacuum daily, and clean bathrooms 3x a week) but our house is still dirtier than it used to be. Art projects, sand from the park, dirt getting tracked in on shoes/bikes/scooters (we live in an apartment so these things mostly come into the apartment with us). And the crumbs. So many crumbs. Even when you try to keep food localized to certain areas, there are still always crumbs everywhere. Thus the daily vacuuming. We also have a cat and between the kid and the cat... I just have to accept that my house will never be spotless. But I can fight the good fight.[/quote]

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