The Glamorous Life

Well, this week the living has been glamorous...NOT! Our Friday night date was a trip to Petsmart with the pups and a salad from Wendy's. Saturday has been ironing and the gym.

We have been deep in the annual ritual known as Spring Cleaning. A rite of passage that is not to be overlooked by anyone in my house, although many wish I would develop a temporary case of Alzheimer's so we could skip it altogether. Since this has not been the case, the cleaning has commenced!

We started with Maddock's room and I am not sure we can refer to that as cleaning but more like decontaminating the environment! He got a new bed this week and this meant cleaning underneath the old one. Since we were already cleaning it just seemed the natural thing to continue...some of my dishes have been returned to their home in the kitchen, two bags of trash were hauled out, one full hamper of laundry has escaped to the basement and dust bunnies ran for their lives. At one point I noticed Fred scrubbing a spot in the corner, when I asked him what he was cleaning he simply rolled his eyes and said "You don't want to know." I am sure he was right! All in all a very satisfying clean out...however, as I walked by his room today I noticed three glasses have been kidnapped, the laundry seems to be trying to crawl to the new basket we put in his room for that purpose and the bed seemed so forlorn in its unmade state. I can see an update will be necessary.

Micah has put me on notice that Samantha (his girlfriend) will be helping him with his room...I will be watching!

Next came our bedroom...emptied the closets, rearranged all the drawers, and moved the furniture for a wonderful "I got something done today" feeling! Our room has remained spotless!

Today Fred even got the garage cleaned out! The yard is mowed and the flowers are blooming!

Since we had already done most of the downstairs while replacing the floors the only room left is the family room and that will be the next episode in "Adventures in Cleaning."