Once my sister and brother got home yesterday from being with Mom all night long, I went to sleep because I'd stayed up all night that night and I was ready to escape the youngans lol. I know I'm a sound sleeper and was worried I wouldn't hear my niece B or nephew N if they woke up while I was asleep. Laugh I don't have that super mommy ability of being a light sleeper in fact I once slept thru our tin roof getting folded over during a hurricane. So yeah I wasn't going to sleep till someone else was here to watch the kids.
Ended up doing a couple loads of wash and some dishes during the night. Of course, by time I went to hang up the clothes on the clothesline my niece B had waken up. I improvised and turned the grocery cart in the backyard into a temporary rolling playpen for her. The clothes ended up getting rained on later during the day. I'm laughing bout it now but I was pissed at the time. I should have remembered phrase from Of Mice and Men ---> Best laid plans of mice and men go awry. Laughs thanks Mrs. Parker for being my think it was 9th grade English teacher that taught me that so very long ago. :-)
Once I woke back up again (maybe 4 or 5 hours later) I went ahead and was trying to straighten up the kitchen some more. My nephew N even helped by taking all the green beans and corn and stacking them for now on the baker's rack in the corner. I need to buy some wood to turn the German shrunk that we have turned on end to make a storage area into more of a bookcase that we can use as a pantry.
I went ahead and tackled the area above the stove and the stove top itself tonight. I about broke my neck trying to use a bar stool to get where I could reach the shelves above the stove to wash them down. I cleaned up and scrubbed all over the top of the stove cleaning it off of all the assorted dishes and pots and pans. I sometimes think I'm just moving the mess from one area of the kitchen to another area of the kitchen though. :-sI've got the before and after pictures of the stove area and the way the kitchen looks right now and pictures of areas I need to work on in the very near future. I'll put those pictures in another post since I'm still sorta figuring out the best way to add pictures to my posts here =^.^=
I ended up moving all the dishes to the far side of the sink so that I can fill up the sink on the right with dirty dishes and clean water and soap and move everything to the left to the dish drain I have set up there. Once the dishes are dried I move them to the baker's rack. Laughs my brother was surprised to see plates already washed and ready for supper last night. I still am going to buy some foam/plastic plates to use for summer or just when I don't want to do dishes.
I was having nephew N help with sorting the clothes to wash yesterday. I'd fill up the large round trash can with dirty clothes take it to the living room where I have two big sheets (one for whites and one for colors) and another pile for just sheets and towels. He'd help me throw clothes onto one pile or the other.
Wow looking at the pictures from the 5-23-2012 till now is like night and Day :-)
Living room is Soooo much cleaner The Burgundy computer chair is showing the same area where the big round trashcan was at in the first picture where we were sorting laundry :-)
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