it was one of those kind of days...

Do you notice anything out of the ordinary in the photo below? Take your time and look closely.... Here is another view-this one is a little more of a close up of the out of the ordinary item...

I opened my washer to throw the clothes into the dryer only to find a nice blue balloon had been washed with my towels. Another one of the joys of being a mommy, wife & house keeper~you never know what you will find.

Spring Cleaning Day Two~Update

I am very proud of myself for pretty much completing Day two of our spring cleaning. I did the following to our family room today.

cleaned blinds

washed windows

washed curtains

dusted everything & Windex's

cleaned ALL the molding & trim

wiped down all the doors

swept

I still have the following To Do:

*vac the red sofa (this is the sofa that chloe uses as her bed~I tried to vac it today but little man had a fit
*mop

I need Brad's help with the following:

*clean the ceiling fan

*clean light fixtures under the catwalk

*clean the upper molding going into our b'fast area

*clean the leather soda.

Over all I think it was a good day!

Cleaning update

So I have a little confession this morning about my spring cleaning progress.... I didnt do any of it this weekend. I decided to take the weekend off and play with my boys. So today is back to the real world around here. I have to drop Bernie off this morning for a bath & haircut, then come back home and try to get started on our family room down stairs. We really dont use this room~well us with two legs dont use this room. Chloe has claimed our red sofa in the family room as her bed. She loves it. I finally got smart & put a blanket down on it so its not covered with dog hair. Why did I not think about this last year, before she wore the sofa out? So I will try & post some update of my cleaning progress later today. Wish me luck. This room is filled with molding, molding & more molding. Hopefully Austin will be happy playing downstairs so I can get something accomplished.

Also, I will try to get some new pictures of my little guy posted later today!

10 Days to Spring Cleaning

So I have been putting it off for long enough...Spring Cleaning time. Its something that we all hate to do but know it needs to be done. I have been trying to prepair myself for this for the last few months but have not found the real motivation to dig in and get to it. So this morning I came across a spring cleaning party over on simplemom. She breaks it down into a 10 day process with each day focusing on a different area. That doesn't seem so hard. I am going to start the process today and just take it one day at a time. We moved into our home almost a year & a half ago so its not too crazy yet. I am thinking that if I do this spring cleaning thing 2 times a year from now on~it should never get awful. I am hoping everyone will keep me in check and make sure I am sticking to this. Its only 10 days right?....... I have already cleared out a lot of unused items around our house recently for a garage sale so hopefully it wont be too bad. Its just time for the deep clean-washing windows, curtains, blinds, under the furniture. Sounds like fun right? Let me know if you decide to join me in this cleaning party and we can try to motivate each other. Here are the basic steps for each day

Here’s the Spring Cleaning Party schedule:
Thur. June 11 – a clean sweep
Fri June 12 – the living room, part one
Sat June 13 – the living room, part two
Sun June 14 – the kitchen, part one
Mon June 15 – the kitchen, part two
Tue June 16 – the bathrooms
Wen June 17 – the kids’ rooms, part one
Thur June 18– the kids’ rooms, part two
Friday June 19 – the master bedroom
Sat June 20 – the front entry

That should take care of everything. I am off to do my clean sweep today.