I'm still Around

It has been a long time since I posted. So much for trying to keep it up. Oops. Ah well.

This week I've been focussing on fall cleaning. Ok, really it's spring cleaning... in fall, haha. Last week I managed to 'wash' my living room, dining room, hall, stairway, and entrance. Including interior windows, vacuuming (I will be renting a rug doctor to acutally 'clean' my rugs vs just vacuuming), walls (scrubbed those good), organizing any closets/drawers/counters, dusting EVERYTHING, and purging. I feel good! I even cleaned the furniture (I love microfiber cloths). My entrance took less time than I expected too, since I can take my boot matts to the barn and 'pressure' wash them! No scrubbing required! And they look oh so clean now! Eeee!

That was last week.

This week I'm trying to do the 'rest' of the house. Not including rugs. That's next week. Although, I have to say, I am missing a few little things here and there that I may also need to do next week. Like taking apart my faucets and cleaning the rust out of them (did my bathrooms today... those faucets are bad. Cleaned the exterior really well, though). Or waxing the shower walls. I may do that this week anyway... if I have any polish wax stuff I can use. They get so full of rust so quickly. Yesturday I did the bedrooms. Blah. Worst. Rooms. Ever. So much furniture to move, so much to vacuum, so much laundry to do. I also washed ALL the windows and curtains. Yay me! That said, I had to re-clean all the windows/glass at child levels again today. And will have to again tomorrow. Sigh. I also cleaned our old desk (couldn't find a new one at prices we wanted) and we moved our office back into the office! Yay! It looks nice, even though I don't have all the shelving I want yet. I have plans, I tell you... PLANS! They will cost money though. Mmmm... shopping!

I'm really proud of the closet organizing I've been doing. My bedroom closets are so clean! And at least they will stay that way for awhile (unlike most of the other cleaning I've been doing).

Today's bathroom cleaning went well as well. I even scrubbed the floors on hands and knees (not saying much, since there isn't much floor to scrub, haha).

I am dealing with something frustrating regarding fall cleaning. Why is it that we can go years without exploding diapers in our crib, until the day after I've done all the cleaning I have... I had to change all his bedding this morning (after having spent so much time doing laundry and stuff yesturday). Sigh. At least I didn't have to rewash EVERYTHING in the room. There were other things too. Just after cleaning, we end up with drool on this, and diaper residue (yuck) on that, and stinky rooms (which had moments before smelled fresh and lovely) because of ... well... stink. Sigh.

Sometimes I wonder why I bother. And then I look at my really filthy rag and know that in the end, it really is worth it. Goodbye dust! Please stay away for a while longer!