i wanna know - are you mr. clean??

I don't know about you, but house work is usually at the bottom of my to-do list. There just isn't enough hours in the day to do all the things I *want* to do, never mind the dusting. Now don't get me wrong, while it does occasionally look like we're raising goats in here it is normally somewhat neat and tidy. Well as neat and tidy as you can get in a house where two adults have three jobs between them, multiple do-gooder type commitments, endless hours of TV to watch important activities... oh and two kids with school, daycare and extracurricular activities. Did I mention them? The ones that can turn a clean room to total squalor quicker than you can blink.

So we tidy, endlessly it seems, but what about the deep cleaning? What about pulling out the cleaning products and really getting down to it? I have tried to work out some sort of a schedule that will work for me with zero success. There used to be a time before we had kids and Mike was working straight nights that I would spend Friday nights cleaning the house. Those days are long gone. Now Mike is a great tidier, but doesn't really go in for "cleaning". I let Abby mop and she thinks that is the best gift I could have ever given her. Of course I have to get to the sweeping and such before I turn her loose and I can't do that unless the rest of the room has been cleaned first. So in the end it doesn't get done as often as I think it probably should. And I probably wouldn't obsess so much if it weren't for the fact that I love the smell of the house after it's been cleaned. Especially since switching to green cleaning products. Such wonderful lemony citrusy smells.

Ideally I would love to find some sort of a system where I get these things like dusting and such done on a regular basis. I have worked a laundry routine that I like and works. I'm getting way better at actually folding and putting it away these days.

So......

what I wanna know is do you have a cleaning routine and does it work for you?