Will It Ever Be Clean?

Almost everyday I spend an hour in the morning cleaning something in the house, whether vacuuming, mopping, cleaning bathrooms, laundry, organizing . . . just something to make things better but it seems like it doesn't even matter. Within 5 minutes of me picking up a room, it's a mess again and I'm about to go crazy, especially today. I was up late last night and have no patience. So I have this mop that I love and I've actuallybeen mopping the floor every other day because it's so easy. I mopped last night and this morning by the time breakfast was over, there was cereal all over the floor from Mikey and Sam and than Mikey started spitting up everywhere and it is the smelliest stuff and gross. He spit up all over the kitchen floor in several places and then went upstairs and spit up in the boys' room and over both Sam and Conner's beds. It's not something that can be wiped up. Everything had to be washed. I always have a game plan of things I want to get done each day and on days like today I feel like nothing got accomplished because of all the set backs. I'm sure when Neil comes home from work and sees the house every night he wonders what I do all day. I promise it was spotless during naptime. I go to some people's house (Jerusha) and it is always spotless. I think that is awesome but how do you do it? Is it because your kids are older? My boys do chores every day but to be honest how much help is a 3 and 4 year old. I can do it all faster and better but it's just so they get in the habit of helping out and hopefully they'll get better at it. They can't clean unless I'm there to supervise. It's not just the boys fault. Like last night, the dishes didn't get done so there they were sitting on the counter and in the sink. I hate starting my day off to dirty dishes but I just didn't want to do them last night. My kitchen is big enough for my needs as long as there is not stuff on the counters. I have nothing on my counters except the microwave and knife block when it's clean. Today I had a lot of things to make for Neil and the counters were such a mess. I just don't understand why we can't keep the house clean and really it's only 3 rooms, the living room, kitchen and family room since those are the only rooms people will ever really see but it is always such a mess. On Wednesday Enrichement was on spring cleaning and organization. The teacher is a mother of teenagers and kept telling us if you spend a couple minutes everyday doing these things your house will be clean. I spend hours and it's not. I can hear Mikey in his crib awake but he's not getting out until this kitchen is clean because otherwise he'll just start pulling everything out of the cupboards and I'd like to enjoy a clean kitchen for at least 5 minutes. As soon as I clean a mirror in the bathroom one of the boys will go and make "hand prints" on it with water. One of the problems is the boys want to play wherever I am at and that's usually the kitchen so they bring there toys downstairs. What's the point in having a play room? They play up there if they have a friend over. I guess that's just how it is, you want to be where your mom is. Even now when I'm home in GA, everyone is where is mom? We all migrate to where mom is and that can be frustrating because we need some space too. I know this is the life of a young mother and as they say, you're going to miss this. I just want to keep my house nice and organized. I just hate spending all day cleaning and by the end of the day it looks like I did nothing. Vey depressing.