12 Signs You’ve Been Neglectful in Your Kitchen…

**Your toddler isn’t hungry at lunch because he’s been snacking all morning off the food on the floor…

**Instead of wiping the counter and table off, you’ll make better time sweeping it…

**Rather than sweeping the floor, you’ll make better time vacuuming it…

**There’s no silverware in the drawer, so you have to take silverware out of the dishwasher, and then wash it (since the dishwasher hasn’t run yet)…

**You’re okay with sharing your home with a mouse and/or other small rodents rationalizing, “Hey, at least THEY’RE picking up!”

**There’s more than one science project on mold in the fridge… and you’re not studying mold in science…

**You avoid cleaning out the fridge so it looks like you have a lot of food (and hey… the toddler’s full!)

**You burn a candle that smells like food (apple pie, brownie, angel food cake, etc.) so upon the visit of a surprise guest, it smells as if you’ve been busy slaving away…

**You turn the ceiling fan on so you can’t see the layer of dust on the blades…

**The dust bunnies are so big, your toddler has named them and affectionately refers to them as his pets…

**You “self-clean” the oven and the children gather ’round to watch the “pretty fire” burn inside…

**You take the phrase “spot cleaning” to a whole ‘nother level… (“there’s a spot that needs to be cleaned… there’s another spot… oh, and I need to get that spot…”)

I’ve been guilty of a couple of these…uh-oh!