Why I Didn’t Clean The Kitchen: Mom’s Open Letter To Husband Has Parents Howling.

If you ever wanted the low-down on life as a mom, look no further than the open letter below penned by Jordan Harrell.

Jordan meant to clean the kitchen. It was meant to be the primary objective of the day. However, by the time her husband came home, it just hadn’t happened. So Jordan decided to write a funny note to him to explain the mess.

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“Dear Husband,

I know I said I was going to clean the kitchen today. So you might be surprised when you get home and see the kitchen is in fact, not clean.

I’d love to offer an explanation —

First, I walked in to the kitchen with the sole intention of cleaning it. I picked up the hair brush and rubber bands off the kitchen table and walked to the bathroom to put them in the drawer. “

But once Jordan got to the bathroom, she spotted some towels on the floor that had been “fermenting for several days.” Suddenly, it was off to the laundry room.

“Once there, I decided to go ahead and do a load since both hampers were spilling over and the room smelled like cat pee and B.O. had a baby. I cranked the dials on the washer, shut the lid, and headed back to the original job: the kitchen.”

But before Jordan could even think of getting back to work cleaning the kitchen, she encountered a very “hangry” child (known as “Child B”) in need of feeding.

“The child and her whines followed me into the kitchen, where I promptly handed her a cheese stick and told her to go eat it in the garage (because the kitchen is being cleaned right now, obviously).

The sight of the child reminded me I hadn’t emailed her teacher back yet about the Valentine’s party, so I ran to the computer in our bedroom.

As I opened the computer, Child C rushed in screaming because his cape fell off. I fixed the cape, but didn’t fix it the right way, so he immediately melted to the floor. “

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“I carried Child C kicking and screaming to his room to calm down.

I walked out and shut the door, but immediately walked back in order to remove the cowboy boots so that when he inevitably started kicking the door, it wouldn’t be scuffed.

Then, I headed back to the computer to … what was I going to do? Fifteen minutes of Facebook later, I shut the computer.”

And then it was back to the kitchen … just in time for Jordan to spot the oven clock and realize she needed to pick her Child A from school.

Whoops!

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In the end, the task of cleaning up the kitchen went hopelessly unfinished. Said Jordan,

 “It’s not clean. Nothing is ever clean. My life is just a constant state of doing and never completing. I just thought I’d let you know the situation, so you won’t ask about the state of the kitchen.

Not that you ever would.”

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Sound familiar, moms?

Simply put, the lesson is that a mother’s work is never done. All any mom can do is try her best… and keep a sense of humor about everything!

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