Is housekeeping rewarding?

I was going through some of my old Facebook notes and I saw a note on "Housekeeping". After reading it, I  thought I should share it with y'all. (Quote below)

It is such a joy to have your home be clean and orderly. As well as the freshness that remains when you finish. :)
For example, if you have a huge pile of dishes, you might look at them and think how long it will take, but when you are done...Oh! What joy to have them done, the counters clean, and the satisfaction when the job is accomplished is, in my opinion, enough in itself for how long or how hard it was!

A Farmer's Wife Sweeping: 1867 painted by 

Jean François Millet

"Seen from the outside, housework can look like a Sisyphean task that gives you no sense of reward or completion. Yet housekeeping actually offers more opportunities for savoring achieveemnt than almost any other work I can think of. Each ...of its regular routines brings satisfaction when it is completed. These routines echo the rhythm of life, and the housekeeping rhythm is the rhythm of the body. You get satisfaction no only from the sense of order, cleanliness, freshness, peace and plenty restored, but from the knowledge that you yourself and those you care about are going to enjoy those benefits."
~ Cheryl Mendelson, Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House, page 10.