Summer is coming to an end and school is fast approaching. I will be going back to the classroom, and between teaching and kids’ practices/sporting events, free-time will be a thing of the past.
While I have spent a lot of time out in my Writing Cabin working on various projects, my house cleaning projects have been brushed to the side. Today I plan on cleaning a corner in my living room that contains a computer desk we never use, along with a dusty, outdated printer. There are cobwebs, crumbled up papers, and probably a snack wrapper or two that one of my kids carelessly threw over there instead of walking the trash to the garbage can.
I have three kids, so let’s face it, my house does not fall into the ‘Super Clean’ category. I do, however, have this issue with wanting items in the place where they belong. Dirty socks left on the floor, empty water bottles sitting on the couch, or an empty snack boxes left in the pantry drive me crazy. (I’ve never understood why kids can not just throw the empty boxes away!)
I wish I could say that I fall in the ‘Lived-In Look’ style of home cleaning, but I’m probably somewhere between that and the ‘Super Clean’ category. I want to be able to leave Keegan’s hoodie laying across the arm of a chair or let Khloe’s crafts stay sitting out on the dining room table, but I just can’t bring myself to that point. The presence of all the ‘stuff’ that five people accumulate throughout their day-to-day activities just suffocates me. It makes it hard to breathe and my stress level just builds up to a breaking point. I become over-whelmed with the amount of work to be done if I leave the mess for too long.
Time to get to Work…
As I’m writing this blog post, all of the other projects besides the computer desk corner, are popping into my mind. I have two weeks left before school begins so I should be able to tackle a few things on my ‘To-Do’ List.
Goals for Today:
- Clean Computer Desk Area
- Weed Whip Outside Yard
- Mow side yard