There Was No Folgers In My Cup

The best part of waking up…

When the alarm sounded this morning, it was a little harder than usual to roll out of bed and get ready to face the day of work that was waiting for me.

As you will remember, today was the first weekday morning since my wife returned to the ranks of SAHM and I will admit that I was a little envious of the fact that she would not be heading to work today.

However, those feelings of envy quickly disappeared when I saw the smile on my wife’s face as she was excited to get down to business. And as much as I would like to say that “get down to business” refers to a story that my wife would kill me if I shared here, it actually refers to the business of cleaning the house.

My wife loves to clean.

Don’t ask me…that seems against human nature as I can find at least 8,354 things I would rather be doing than cleaning the house. But before I had even finished getting dressed for work, I could hear the music playing and the cleaning had already commenced. The laundry room had been emptied out and the floor was being scrubbed when I came down to grab a bite to eat for breakfast.

I don’t know about you but if I had just become a SAHD, I picture my first day being more along the lines of getting the kids on the bus for school and then crawling back into bed for a few hours.

By the time I returned home from work the laundry room was restored and freshly organized, the area rug in the family room had been cleaned, the bathrooms had been cleaned from top to bottom, and the kitchen reminded me of a cleanroom. The best part was that my wife couldn’t have been happier - and I didn’t have to do any of the cleaning.

Happiness is priceless.

As much as we may have enjoyed the extra money that my wife was earning while working as a preschool teacher, I can tell you that you cannot put a price on seeing how happy she was today.