Friday our air conditioner condenser drain overflowed (again) and it took until this afternoon for the apartment complex people to get anyone out here to fix it and clean up the lovely flooded carpet mess. Now we get to have three big fans blowing in our halls and the kids’ bedroom for two days. Note: [...]
Category Archive for 'Cleaning'
Least Favorite Chores
Posted in Cleaning on May 21st, 2008
In honor of completing my least favorite chore, vacuuming, I’ve put up a poll on my site asking what YOUR least favorite chores are. If you choose “Other,” feel free to tell me what other chore it is in the comments section below.
Procrastinating the vacuum Part II
Posted in Cleaning on May 21st, 2008
I did it! I vacuumed yesterday!!! I just didn’t get much past vacuuming and getting the furniture back in place. Here are my before and after pictures. The “afters” didn’t get taken until this morning when things were getting a little messy again, but it’s better than it was!
Living Room Before
Living Room After
Dining [...]
Procrastinating the vacuum
Posted in Cleaning on May 20th, 2008
I have a thousand reasons I could give not to vacuum right now. I don’t want to do it. I have to empty the dirt container first (and it has–hopefully–dead bugs in it!). I have to pick up the house first. I’d have to move furniture around. I’m tired from my trip. I need to [...]
Bleach-o-phobia
Posted in Cleaning on May 8th, 2008
I just put my sheets in the washing machine with some liquid bleach in the water. Yikes! The problem with bleach is that it does its job too well. Every time I use bleach to clean my laundry (or for anything else), I later discover tiny (and sometimes not-so-tiny) white bleach spots on the clothes [...]
Ever get distracted? This morning I was planning for this week’s home “preschool” and started looking for some supplies for a 5 Senses activity that requires paper bags. I knew my paper bags were in a box somewhere in our “storage room,” so I went on a hunt for them. I knew they were in [...]
Incentive Charts
Posted in Cleaning, Things I Like on Apr 4th, 2008
I love incentive charts! I’ve got a huge one like this on my wall tracking my progress on my goals that I got at the store for less than $2.
Yes, I have a couple of mini-charts for the kids (it’s helping Degen with his potty-training), but I primarily use incentive charts for me! [...]
Cleaning up the porch
Posted in Cleaning on Mar 12th, 2008
I just finished cleaning up our back porch and now I’m sitting on the porch on a kitchen chair watching Degen play outside while Maggie takes a nap inside. The weather is warm and sunny today and I’ve got the heater off, the back door open, and the screen door closed so I can hear when [...]
I have vacuuming issues. I don’t like to vacuum. I like to spell vacuum, but I don’t like to do it. It’s loud, the vacuum is heavy, it scares the kids or wakes them up, and the amount of time it takes to do is much longer in my head than in reality.
I really need [...]
A list of things I can see on the floor from the chair where I’m typing:
About 100 duplo blocks
The duplo container
A package of wipes
A wrapped-up dirty diaper
A plush green dinosaur/dragon (Degen Dragon)
Maggie’s pink windbreaker
Two paper plates
A blanket
Two white socks
A “choo choo shoe” (Thomas the Tank Engine sandal)
Three coloring books
A DVD player box
Maggie’s Dora the Explorer riding toy
Box of [...]