It's Share Time

Of course I've been crazy busy and it's been fun. The past two weeks I have been cleaning out storage rooms and closets. I have all the kids fall/winter ironed and ready to move into their closets. Today is the first day of fall but unfortunately summer didn't get the memo. We'll see if a cool snap will finally take hold. Until then I'm enjoying the fall signs where I see them. Pumpkins are in the grocery stores. We finally had rain the other afternoon and a ton of leaves fell with it. I see some color in the trees so that's a good sign too.

Other than my mind being on fall, my favorite season, I have been cleaning. I cleaned out the garage storage room for Chad. This is where most of his storage stuff resides. I cleaned out my storage building/studio. That was a job! Leigh had given me all this decor and what not so it all had to be boxed and organized. I'm considering throwing a little Halloween get together just so I can use all the cute stuff she gave me. After doing those two buildings I decided to clean out the sun porch and plant shrubs around the sides of it. Once that was clean I moved to the front porch and I put out mums, fall decor, and a leafy wreath.

With the outside done I headed indoors. I spent three hours one morning in Markus' bedroom. I did it all in his room including baseboards, closet, ceiling fan, furniture repair, upholstery cleaning, and his wood blinds. It was inspiring to see how clean and nice it could be in his little space. The inspiration moved me through the rest of the house. I also had a cleaning lady come one day to help finish the regular dusting and what not on the other side of the house so that by the end of the week I would have everything immaculate. That gave me the option Friday morning to let Markus go to the Y and do the final big clean on all the other rooms in the house. So last Friday I cleaned the oven, I wiped out the refrigerator / freezer, I wiped down all the trim, baseboards, and chair rail in every room in the house including the closets, I dusted all the blinds, I wiped down all the ceiling fans, and I washed all the kitchen cabinets!!! Whew! I can say without a doubt that the house smells fresher and that it's really put me in a good mood to have it in this great condition. Now I just have to resist the urge to get fussy if the hubs and kids mess it up. So far they have been very good and being neat and tidy. I just keep reminding myself of what Chad always says, "It's not a museum!"

So with all that cleaning done I collected a mass of things that we no longer use or want. Some went to Ebay, some went to the Salvation Army, and other's went to family and friends that could use them.

With all this cleaning done, there really is very little to do for me during the day besides play with Markus and keep up with our washing/ironing. So I've made some scrapbook goals and I'm working towards them. It's nice to have the time to scrapbook again. I hope I get some more done this month and next before I have to move it back to my scrapbook closet for the holidays. As it is right now I have it spread out all over the dining room table.

Well I'd better scoot. I am making a cup of hazelnut coffee in the new Keurig coffee maker Chad got yesterday. I just hope my Hoot Owl Cup is clean. :)

-Erin