Coming Clean

A couple of years ago, while I was sitting in my chair (pumping), I took a look around and noticed just how filthy my house really was. I knew that I no longer had the time or energy for anything like a good spring cleaning because my twins were about 4 months old at the time, and so I came up with a list. I think that it was like November or December and so I decided that it would be my New Year's resolution. I started with my kitchen and moved down the hall to the bedrooms with each room's list containing everything that I wanted to get cleaned in that room and each room taking a different month. When January 07 rolled around I finished my whole list and my kitchen was totally cleaned. It felt really good. I never moved on to any of the other rooms, sadly the resolution was broken.
This year I have resurrected the list. I have typed it up checklist style and I posted it on the fridge (which has already been cleaned!) Things are right on schedule for the kitchen. I have 9 things left to do and 10 days left to do them! I cleaned my kitchen blinds yesterday and they look so nice. In 07 I started with just some hot water and a wet rag, then when the greasy dust on the blinds was too tough for that I added some Pine sol to my water and then the blinds were getting black streaks on them where the grease wouldn't come off, needless to say it took me a couple of days to do the blinds. This year I started off with my favorite kitchen cleaner...Easy Off BAM! It only took me about an hour start to finish, then I washed the window. I love it when you can clean something (like blinds and a window) and it stays clean for a number of days (rather than hours) and you can enjoy it and feel good about it. Today's item to be cleaned is the insides of the fridge and freezer. It's a pretty big chore, I've been putting it off but I've committed to it now, so at 1:00 I'm going to put the kids in bed, turn on OLTL and get to it.