Spring Cleaning

I got this hair brained idea at the first of the week to begin my spring cleaning. I was thinking it would be one, maybe two days at the most. It is now Thursday evening and I am 2/3 done! I was trying to figure out why my house was so dirty and very dusty in corners and ceilings.etc.... It finally hit me! This is the longest I have ever lived in one place since moving out of state. I also realized that I havent given my house the really good cleaning that it needs because of that! I have moved so much and that was when I would do my cleaning and purging. I now understand how people accumulate so much "junk" and how it ends up where it does. :-)

It has been fun going room to room and giving it a good scrub. The hard part is at the end of day, it doesnt look at that much different. I keep thinking it should look so much cleaner and shinier. I made the mistake and asked the kids if they thought the house looked any different. You guessed it, their answer was "No, not really... is it suppose to?".

Today was Taylors room, she wasnt to happy that I made her help me. I wanted to go through her closet and figure out what would fit for this summer and things she had outgrew. She is a major pack rat, she doesnt want to part with anything. I had to convince that we would go shopping in Las Vegas next week if we got rid of some of her clothes. Well, that changed her tune pretty quickly. Next thing I knew we had a big garbage sack of clothes. A friend came by and we gave them to her for her daughter. She was thrilled. Her daughter has never recieved hand me downs and was very excited. I had told Michele to give back what she didnt want. I would give them to Good Will. She brought Cameron home and said Grace loved everything and wanted everything!! Ahh!! It made Taylor feel really good. I dont think Duane will be to happy when I tell it what it is going to cost him. hee, hee!!!

Tomorrow is Camerons room, it should be pretty quick. He isnt picky or choosy!! Then it is down to the basement. I asked the kids to help me go through some of their toys. I asked if they thought they were ready to throw away any toys, out came the look of horror! I quickly suggested that we donate their OLD toys to Good Will. They were fine with that idea. As I am typing this Taylor said they were going to go down and start going through their toys!! YEA!!! Maybe I will done sooner than the weekend. The end is in sight!