It's cleaning day. Hawk has been out of town for almost two weeks and comes home tomorrow so I am trying to surprise him by having the WHOLE house clean. Oddly enough since the older kids moved out and I've stream lined the living room and gone through a lot of the things that lived here that didn't actually belong to me and boxed them up, the house stays fairly put together. Once we took the carpet out of the living room life got easier. Even the kids keep things pretty ok in their room and it is just a matter of making them go pick up. They are all finally old enough to understand and for the most part obey when sent to pick up so its the floors and bathrooms, and the dreaded kitchen that are hardest. With the new bed our bedroom isn't bad at all. I have about four loads of laundry, including bedding and its all done. The smalls picked up their rooms and all I really need to do is go in and clean out from under the beds and reorganize their dresser drawers. The kitchen is the big task. I am splitting it into two days. Today I will do all the dishes and clean the counters and floors. Tomorrow I tackle the fridge and cabinet faces. For now I have done the bathrooms and still need to do the floors in there, vacuum the hall and bedrooms. I have the chicken thawing out for panko chicken tenders for dinner with mashed potatoes and okra. This afternoon I am going to round up the kids and head for the grocery store. I found an HEB close enough to justify the drive from the house so we will go over there and stock up for the week. Niky made lunch for he and the girls and I can keep working on the bathrooms By tonight it should be relatively done. I just need to do the floors really in the living room and bedrooms and the baths. That's the big task for today. Sadly I do not resemble the pic above, I look more like this when all is said and done.



Still, strangely enough I am having a pretty good day. Check with me when its all over and see if I am still chipper. lol