To Clean or Not To Clean

Cleaning is a daily ritual here. There are those things that are a "have to", things that are a "need to", and the "if I have time to". With little kids here every day, I'm a little obsessive about it. Some of it is done while the kids are asleep in the afternoon (an hour if I'm really lucky); however, the majority of my cleaning is done at night. The crazy thing is that, even after spending time cleaning and picking up every day, I still have piles of things that never get touched. Don't know where I inherited that habit...was mom a piler? I don't remember.