Random

I believe you will be my company today. So much for my plans. I got home, made a little pool area for the kiddos and have done nothing much since. I made tea. I hand washed the pots and pans. I've picked up the dining room and music room, though am still going through all the crap on the table. The bedrooms remain untouched...

There. For the first time in a long time the art table is all cleaned up. I can look around this area and not have my skin crawl from all the clutter. It's rather nice.

Break - brought the kids in - slathered them with blue gel - put them to bed. Off to Maggie's bedroom...

Maggie's room is no longer a trash heap... Huzzah! I know you can't tell time on here, but it's been about an hour and a half. To clean up ONE little girl's room! RIDICULOUS! But, at least it's done and I don't have to sigh every time I walk by.

Disaster area #2, aka Lorelei's room, has been straightened. Only another hour to do that one. I did also get the winter stuff put back in their bins and into Maggie's closet and pick up some misc. stuff in my room. I still need to deal with the laundry in my room and several other things, but at least you can walk in there without tripping over something again!!

Woot! My room kinda echos again! :) All the laundry that was up there is dealt with. My bed is stripped. Surfaces are cleared, except for B's dresser. He can take care of that later. Now all I have to do it bring down the bags and baskets of stuff that doesn't belong up there. It amazes me how things migrate. I'm going on about an hour a room. Good to know for future planning...

I'm running out of energy, but Liam just woke up, so I need to clean up his room. My knee hurts. My body feels heavy. Maggie is home now. Hopefully Bob will be home soon too.

Molly's room is cleaned up. We've all eaten and the kids are in bed. I bribed Molly and Maggie with ice cream sandwiches to clean up the living room. It's not totally done, but much better than it was. Two floors in a day isn't too bad. If I can focus on laundry and the basement tomorrow and then maintain the stuff I've already done today, I'll be good to go to actually clean on Wednesday and Thursday. Hopefully the kids won't make too much of a mess and I'll still be able to move.

Living room straight, floors swept. Off to sort laundry...

Got laundry sorted and, thanks to Bob, the MOUNTAIN of it got done pretty quickly.

I took a hot Epsom salt bath, hoping to dry up this poison ivy and other skin issues I seem to be having lately. It feels good on sore muscles too.

All I have to do tomorrow is straighten up the family room, do that mountain of laundry and maintain the neatness. It's the latter that will be the biggest challenge.