MOP IT UP MONDAY-FLAG DAY

Welcome to the last edition of Mop It Up! Monday until the end of summer.  

I have tons of work to do this week.  I have really slacked the last 2 weeks between stress and court. Today I did get quite a bit accomplished.  Not everything that I wanted to, but most of it.  I did lots of dishes today.  I hate washing dishes.  

I cleaned the litter boxes today.  We bought another one for Tom because Greg thinks he's too big to get inside the other one to go comfortable.  So now Tom has his own.  Those need to be cleaned every other day, if not every day.

I picked up my "desk" today also.  That really needed to be done.  It was getting piled too high and really messy.  I picked up quite a bit in the LR (Living Room).  I didn't get as far as dusting, but got most of it picked up.  The only things left is the laundry, and it's quite a mountain.  I also got the floor picked up where I tend to let junk pile.  I had to re-organize the laundry basket with the items in it to get rid of.  I think I will save them for my girlfriends garage sale that I am going to help her with.

This afternoon I put some weinies in the crockpot with some BBQ sauce and I also whipped up a bowl of homemade potato salad.  I added bacon to it this time.  What I would really like to get is a recipe for baked potato salad.  Mmmmm that would be nummy!

So what is on my agenda for the rest of the week?  Well here is a little list:
1. Clean entire kitchen
2. Clean laundry room
3. Clean kids bathroom
4. Keep everything picked up
5. Wash dishes EVERY day
6. Make bread
7. Make fruit leather 
8. Clean off vanity

   

Mop it Up! Monday Memorial Day

Today I am feeling a little out of breath and really tired.  Maybe I didn't get enough sleep?  I dunno.  I am still trying to decide if we are going to take today as a holiday and skip school or if we'll do some.  Right now, it's 11:28am and I haven't done anything but finish the book that I wanted to finish and take a nice, hot, herbal vapor soak bath.


I do know that I need to do dishes today.  Really bad.  I don't ever do them on Sundays and on Saturday I did some, but I was already behind because of a migraine most of the week.  I need to clean the litterbox today also.  Such joy in that!  *enter heavy sarcasm there*  But I shouldn't complain at all since I just got that new little kitten.  

I am also going to need to put some more orange essential oil in my spray bottle in the bathroom and spray around the corner where we had the litterbox before.  Tom is not taking to us moving the litterbox.  At least, I think it's Tom.  But cats don't like the smell of orange so if I spray that area well, hopefully he will stop pooing there.  At least he's only pooing........

Other than that I think I will read most of the day.  I started a new book today.  It's Organic Gardener's Composting by Steve Solomon.  I want to start a compost pile in the backyard.  Of course, not today.  Today I'm just going to learn about it.  I might also start another book.  There is two that I am trying to decide between.  Both of them I got from the library so I want to hurry up and finish them.  The first one that I found is called A Princess Found by Sarah Culberson and Tracy Trivas.  The other book that I found and would like to read is called In The Presence of My Enemies by Gracia Burnham with Dean Merrill.  Those are next on my reading list and I am also going to add them to my Spring Reading Thing list for 2010.  There were two books on my list that I started to read but couldn't stand so I didn't finish them.  I feel like I am cheating my list if I don't replace those books with others.  lol  Yes, I am weird like that.  

That is about it for today.   I might even sneak in a little nap!  I hope you all have a great Memorial Day with friends and family! 

 

Mop it Up! Monday

I have found a new meme to follow that I think I will like!  It's called Mop it Up! Monday

 

My plans for this week is to keep all of the rooms that I already have cleaned, CLEANED!  I also have plans to clean my bedroom and my bathroom so they will be like the rest of my house.  I will work on them each for one hour this week.  

Mondays plans are basically to teach school, get dishes washed, clean the litterbox and maybe read some of my book.  I do not have high aspirations for today.  That is fine with me though! 

I am hoping that next week will bring me an even cleaner house with low maintenance to keep it up.  I need to keep everything picked up this week.  The kids have kept their bedroom picked up for over a week now which is a miracle in itself!!  I don't know that it has ever lasted that long staying cleaned before, but they have picked it up every night before bed.  Stinky has the incentive that if she kept it cleaned for a week, she could invite her best friend C over.  She did that!  Yay for her!  Now she has to keep it up, or C won't be able to play.  Bubba is a little upset that he doesn't have any friends at church really to invite over to play with and I told him that is ok.  He is still young, and most of the boys at church are younger or older than him.  He will get more friends as he grows older and our church grows.  

That is basically my cleaning plans for today and this week.  They are not really ambitious, but they serve my family and myself well.  If you liked this post, and would like to join and read others, please click on the graphic at the top of this blog entry and it will take you to Andrea's page for her Mop it Up! Monday blog.  Stay tuned next week for another episode of.....Mop it Up! Monday!!!!!