Spring Cleaning

Ahhh Spring! Our Wisconsin April snow has melted uncovering the green grass and daffodils. Now comes the mud! Alfred Lord Tennyson said, "In Spring a young man's fancy turns lightly to thoughts of love." It sounds so alluring, but for women, at least those of my generation, in Spring our thoughts turn heavily to Spring Cleaning.

I don't mean to whine. Now days, at least it's our choice. Kind of. And men do clean too, or at least help. But have you noticed as much as the times have supposedly changed, the T.V. commercials for household cleaning products all still depict the woman doing the cleaning? We have to assume the manufacturers of these products have done some market research, which would prove, it's the women who the housecleaning chores rest the heaviest on. So, it's no wonder Spring is not my favorite season.

Give me Summer! When the mud has dried up and the work is all done. Oh, I forgot, A woman's work is never done. BTW, that little saying has been quoted so many times over history, I can't find the original author.

I apologize, my blog is meant to be educational and inspirational and I'm afraid I'm sounding negative. My excuse is the Spring cold that has invaded my head - so I'll just leave you with a couple more cleaning quotes. They were both authored by men of course- it's easy to find time to write when you don't have to clean!

"You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping." ~Rudyard Kipling

"The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even things up. The trouble is that men, over the years, have developed an inflated notion of the importance of everything they do, so that before long they would turn housework into just as much of a charade as business is now. They would hire secretaries and buy computers and fly off to housework conferences in Bermuda, but they'd never clean anything." ~Dave Barry