Dirty Little Secret

I have been so stressed out lately about my house!  We have lived in our house for about 3 years now, and I can’t think of a single time that the entire house has been completely presentable.  I can’t stand it!  I hate having to clean up every time someone says they’re coming over.  I hate the feeling of my heart sinking in my stomach when someone just drops by because my house is a disaster.  My husband and I both are to blame.  We are great “clean it uppers”.  We are horrible “keep it cleaners”.  We can spend an entire Saturday cleaning and it will look great, but give it a week… MAN!  But our office… that room has NEVER been clean.  From day one it was our “put it in there till we figure out where we’re going to put it”.  We never did figure out where we wanted to put it.  Then it became our “dang it, someone’s coming and I don’t have time to clean so just throw it in there and we’ll close the door” room…. And then we’d forget we threw it in there…  But who has time to keep it clean?  I get home from work, start supper, feed me and Aly, give Aly her bath, play with Aly for a little while, take her to bed, get my shower, spend a little time with my husband, then it’s my bed time because I have to be up and at’em by 5:30 am.  When am I supposed to work in a load of laundry, dishes, dusting, and vacuuming in there?  I almost want to buy a new house just to start all over so I don’t have to clean this one.  Maybe that can be my new house cleaning plan.  Buy a house.  Live in it for about 5 years (just long enough to junk it up good but not trash it). Sell it, de-clutter with yard sales and donations to good will to trim back down to the necessities, buy a new house and start over.  Hmmm… sounds tempting.  In the meantime, anyone know the number to the magic cleaning fairy?