Cleaning Quote of the Day

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the driveway while it is still snowing"

This fits my feelings to a T these past few months.  I feel like by the time I make even one sweep through the house, everything I did at the beginning is completely undone.  

     In the past few weeks, I have learned another quote of the day (that was hanging in my mom's house while I was growing up, and I am beginning to appreciate it more and more!)...

"Housework is something that you do that nobody notices unless you don't do it."

    I get so sick of cleaning up the same messes, doing the same dishes (yes, our dishwasher broke a few months back, so I have been hand washing all of the dishes - fun for me!), washing/drying/folding the same laundry.  I feel like I'm living in some sort of groundhog day movie time warp.

     Okay, my little pity party is over - I just wanted to get that off my chest.  Now I can go and tackle the tornado wreckage that has become my house since I cleaned it 24 hours ago :).

     Do any of you have wonderful tips on how to keep your house clean with little ones running around??  What are your tricks of the trade?  Do share, please!!