How do you...

How do you keep a house clean when you are selling it?

How do you keep a house clean when you are selling it and you have four children?

How do you keep a house clean when you are selling it and you have four children, three of which you also need to homeschool?

How do you keep a house clean when you are selling it and you have four children, three of which you also need to homeschool, and one whose private school acts as if you have nothing other to do in life except help them?

How do you keep a house clean when you are selling it and you have four children, three of which you also need to homeschool, and one whose private school acts as if you have nothing other to do in life except help them, while trying to make 15 quilt blocks in time to fulfill a quilt-block-exchange obligation?

How do you keep a house clean when you are selling it and you have four children, three of which you also need to homeschool, and one whose private school acts as if you have nothing other to do in life except help them, while trying to make 15 quilt blocks in time to fulfill a quilt-block-exchange obligation and manage to keep food in your house and on the table?

How do you keep a house clean when you are selling it and you have four children, three of which you also need to homeschool, and one whose private school acts as if you have nothing other to do in life except help them, while trying to make 15 quilt blocks in time to fulfill a quilt-block-exchange obligation and manage to keep food in your house and on the table and not forget that at some point you will need to figure out how you are going to move in a week?

How do you keep a house clean when you are selling it and you have four children, three of which you also need to homeschool, and one whose private school acts as if you have nothing other to do in life except help them, while trying to make 15 quilt blocks in time to fulfill a quilt-block-exchange obligation and manage to keep food in your house and on the table and not forget that at some point you will need to figure out how you are going to move in a week, making sure that you are keeping up on your book club book at the same time?

How do you keep a house clean when you are selling it and you have four children, three of which you also need to homeschool, and one whose private school acts as if you have nothing other to do in life except help them, while trying to make 15 quilt blocks in time to fulfill a quilt-block-exchange obligation and manage to keep food in your house and on the table and not forget that at some point you will need to figure out how you are going to move in a week, making sure that you are keeping up on your book club book at the same time, and hosting birthday parties?

How do you keep a house clean when you are selling it and you have four children, three of which you also need to homeschool, and one whose private school acts as if you have nothing other to do in life except help them, while trying to make 15 quilt blocks in time to fulfill a quilt-block-exchange obligation and manage to keep food in your house and on the table and not forget that at some point you will need to figure out how you are going to move in a week, making sure that you are keeping up on your book club book at the same time, hosting birthday parties, preparing for Christmas, being down with the flu and preventing it from reaching the rest of your family, figuring out how to attend weddings 7 hours away on a school night, keep your plants watered and your pets fed and still fit in time to try to appreciate autumn in a land where autumn doesn't exist?

How? Repeat after me: "This too, shall pass" and go make yourself another cup of coffee.  Soon--and very soon--it will be a new passel of problems to deal with and this will be but a memory.  It is in the midst of this craziness that life is lived.