Current Mood : Nap mode !
As embarrassing as it is to admit, I'm proud that I got off my butt today and got the living room cleaned. And I don't mean ‘picked up', I mean, tables wiped off, toys in Dearest Son's room, vacuumed, cleaned. I forgot how nice our new vacuum is. Edge cleaning is actually fun ! Only took two hours, which is rather embarrassing, but I have to be reminded of that little fact every so often.
Tomorrow, hopefully, we tackle Son's room, and at least some dishes. I'm trying to get him to pick up toys at day's end and have them in his room, instead of in every spare corner and flat space of the house. I had the living room mostly clean until Tuesday - we ran late with dinner, and I was getting Dearest used to picking up every night, but Beloved Hubby just let him head for bed. From there, it just went to h#ll, because I sort of resented it, and didn't clean. By Thursday, I was too busy with those felt stars to mess with it, and Friday, I was wiped out.
But I promised Dearest we'd put up the tree if I could get the living room cleaned, and that included dumping off that toybox in his room - actually, the hallway. It's overflowing again. (sigh) Anyway, it's done, I took out two bags of trash, scrubbed the tables, even took the vacuum to the sofa and all the chairs. About all I didn't do was pull out the sofa. Gotta save something for next week ! I feel so much better about myself...
The tree and decorations are currently warming up in the Office, fresh from the garage. We'll probably get it set up after dinner. Reclaimed the trash can from the garage, too, and put a liner in it. Now, it's a wrapping paper keeper, and it was free. Found a use for the bag Dollar Tree gave me for the DPrincess paper I bought last month - it fits over our fake tree's ‘trunk' perfectly, and will keep it from getting dusty, since it doesn't fit in the bough box. I'm such a tightwad !
So today, in commemoration of the tree going up just before Christmas, you get a coloring book image of Donald Duck wrestling with the lights. I'm sure to be reenacting that scene shortly !
