Why I love the sunshine & laundry

The sun is shining - the sun is shining! LIFE IS GOOD!

I have thought of all sorts of things I want to blog about lately. I drive to Evil Mart or wherever and think of all sorts of interesting topics. Topics that require thought and common sense. And then I get home and I've got nothing! Zero. Zip. Nada! I guess I can only be smart, hip and funny while I drive. Such a shame that I can't drive & blog, isn't it?

So what can I blog about then? Well, a clean house for one. Ok, ok. A clean lower level of the house with the exception of number 1's room. Gah - don't go in there unless you never want to be seen again. Can he invite his girl over again? Seriously. That room was SPOTLESS when the girl would come over!

I never quite made it up stairs to the bedrooms to clean. Number 2 (poor girl...being called number 2 - eek - never thought of the "potty reference") did clean her room because she had a boy friend come over and the boys "tidied" their room (which really means hide all the crap under the bed & in the closet and anywhere Mom can't see from poking her head in the room.) My bedroom is also a disaster. Partly because all number 6's toys and clothes still reside in the back half of the room and partly because this room continues to be the catch all for things that have no other place. Having the master bedroom might have some perks (like being really large), but I'm tired of crap being stored here!

BUT, let's get back to the living room, dining room, kitchen & bathrooms. Yes, they are all clean. Fabulously clean. Of course, I scrubbed the floors and cabinetry, dusted, swept, vacuumed and mopped all for company to come over. I mean to say that these things all get done, but maybe not with the same ooomph as they do when people are coming to visit. It was gloriously clean, well, except for *those* things up on the top of the kitchen cabinets and china cabinet. Oh and don't mind the dusty, decorative vine-age on top of the window treatments in the dining room. If you're short like me, you don't even know that things are dusty & full of cobwebs.... (off to put those on my cleaning "To Do" list)

I also am caught up with the laundry. Oh yes, the weather has been so kind to me and my laundry obsession, er, I mean chore. There is nothing better than standing in the warm spring sun and hanging clean laundry. The smell is soothing and so is the silence because no one wants to do laundry. No one wants this chore. And why should I tell them about all the peace & quiet you have while doing it? I hope they don't catch on to the fact that it isn't work to me because so far, I've got them all fooled. Perhaps I ought to stop skipping with the laundry basket though and I think hubby is getting suspicious when I am up at 6am JUST to hang laundry before I have to go somewhere!

And speaking of glorious laundry - when I get home from doing volunteering and "real" chores this afternoon (like getting bread, milk & fruit), I will be hanging my window treatments & shower curtains out. The house will instantly smell amazing after they come back in. Springtime smell is so wonderful and brings HOPE back into the dreary winter filled house! I might even have time to dust & de-cobweb those lovely decorative items that are too high for me to see!

The sun is a glorious thing. I'm so glad it is back for awhile.