This morning some amazing women at our church are watching copious amounts of preschoolers to that we "young moms" can have a Mother's Morning Out. Is that not ridiculously amazing?
Guess what my morning out is consisting of (other than writing this post and the Snickers I'm currently devouring like it's my last morsel of food)?
House cleaning.
Yes, I'm serious.
I figured that this might be the LAST time that I will have a chance to clean my house, without my children present for a very, very, very long time. And, especially before the baby gets here. And, since I pretty much confessed yesterday that my floors rivaled those the Waffle House I figured I could use a good 3.5 hours alone in my house with just the mop, broom and windex.
It's been a productive morning. Productive enough to make my lower back hurt like it's not hurt in a long time and my kitchen and dining room floors look 75x better than they did just an hour ago.
I swept up a pile of dirt and hair so large that I wondered if maybe I wasn't mistakenly sweeping off our back patio and then I snapped to reality and remembered it was, in fact, from underneath my table.
It was disgusting y'all. Utterly disgusting.
And now I just remembered the booster seat in our laundry room sink that MUST be cleaned before I pick up my brood of children in 45 minutes. So, I'm off to deal with all things nasty.
But, before I do I would greatly appreciate it if you all would go to this old post of mine and read it because tomorrow I will have a related post and it just will make no sense if you don't go read that other one first.
Or don't and be in the dark. Either way, I'm blogging about a neti-pot tomorrow and I can assure you even watching that video link on the old post will cause you a chuckle or five.
I'm going to share my best floor mopping secret. Put the kids in swim suits, give them each a sponge and small bowl of water. Let them scrub, ask them to get the corners. Send them to get dressed, and while they are gone, toss a big towel down, step on it and shuffle around sopping up the water. Clean floor, happy kids.
ReplyDeleteIf you are feeling VERY adventurous, let them have some shaving cream first!
I am utterly and totally jealous of your clean floors and think it was a fabulous way to spend your morning. I was planning on doing the same thing, but God changed my plans. I missed seeing everyone today and hope we can catch up SOON!
ReplyDeleteWhat a GREAT way to spend alone time. I was debating day before yesterday when J took Bear to the park. "Should I edit the photo shoot I just did so I can get them out the door, OR should I clean my house seeing it needs to be turned upside down and given a good shaking?" I was talking to a friend and she said CLEAN, you never know when you will get that chance again. So I cleaned... later that day my mother, grandmother and 2 aunts came over. THE NEXT day baby boy came home! I was glad I cleaned! lol
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