Don't you hate those days when responsibility trumps creativity? I had a very good afternoon scrapbooking yesterday, I was in The Zone again. And I promised my brother-in-law I'd sew his coat to a fitting stage by the weekend. It's a really cool tuxedo type jacket with tails, I'll post a picture sometime. I'm excited to work on it but...
The house is a wreck. How it can go from really clean and tidy to destroyed and messy in just a few days (or hours) is beyond me. Might have something to do with these 5 kids running around like crazed escaped zoo animals. I haven't been keeping up with Fly Lady's "a little bit every day" method recently either. I go back and forth on doing one big clean every few days or a little bit of cleaning every day. Sometimes it's just nice not to clean every day when you know you're just going to be doing it again the next day. All "Sisyphus and his rock"-like. Blech...
So the plan of attack today: strip the beds, wash all the bedding, clean the bedrooms. Then onto the kitchen, washing tablecloth and chair covers, scrubbing baseboards, moving everything off the counters to give them a good disinfecting scrub, sweep & mop. Next the bathrooms, more scrubbing, changing towels etc. Straighten up the dining room (it's not actually used for dining, just coloring and kids' crafts). Finally the kids will get involved with the family and toy rooms, I'll make them put away their toys while I dust and vacuum. Last on my list is the front room ("parlor" or formal living room) aka my scrapbook room. At some point I need to clean the guinea pig cage too.
And in the end, I'll have a clean house for .45 nanoseconds. Ahhhh...
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