Life's Little Lessons

Why is it that I can clean my house top to bottom, inside and out, and have a tidy house for 20 days in a row, but the first time someone I really look up to and admire decides to drop buy for a chat--the house is thrashed. Why does that happen? And more than once. No one will "drop in " for weeks. Then all at once, the same person will drop in again, and voila...again... rendering instant judgement on what a horrible homemaker I really am. I can hear the scenerio in my mind that is going through hers....and I'd like to crawl under my unvacuumed rug and hibernate there for the next few months. Oh well. I have read cute poems and heard funny stories that the day will come that I will actually miss the fingerprints and messes my children leave behind. I actually doubt that, but I can pretend...for sanity's sake.