Clean up day

Friday
Today was clean up day at our house. This may make me a bad person...but I HATE having to clean up with my kids. I really do.

This summer has been so busy for us that some of the deeper cleaning has been put aside and some things were really starting to look run down. Today was THE day to get it cleaned up. Stuff like gettting those extra non essential loads of laundry done, sweeping and mopping under the furniture, cleaning the crayon off the wall where Jeshie has been colouring recently....re-organizing the towels in the bathroom closet on top of the normal bathroom cleaning stuff.

The day did not start off well...mostly because it seemed like yesterday had barely ended. Jeshie was up a lot last night wanting to climb into bed with us. We recently took away his bubba. I wanted to do it sooner but knowing how stubborn he is and the sleepless nights I would encounter, I decided to wait until my vacation time to do it. I won't lie, there have been a few sleepless nights. He had been improving, but last night was rough. Then this morning my beloved coffee pot of 3 yrs died on me. It's been on the fritz for the last little bit, but now it is dead, it brewed horribly cold coffee this morning, but only a quater of what it's supposed to :(

Not a great start to the day.

Off to Timmies I go and grocery shopping. Once home,  it's time to get busy cleaning up. The kitchen needs some tlc, the bathroom its usual stuff etc...We get going doing what we need to, while this is happening I am starting to get dinner ready for some company that is coming for dinner. Finally, after a very long while, I decide its time to check on Jaelle who is taking a really really long time cleaning the bathroom. In over an hour, nearly nothing is done! How can one person be so slow??! She's in this constant dream world that there is no getting out of apparently...A prime example of why I hate doing chores with the kids. It would  be one thing if they weren't very smart and were actually having a hard time with it...but they are Very smart! They know exactly what needs to be done, its just a matter of choosing to do it. Needless to say, everything did get done, but it took all day to do it
>( What a waste of time! I can't wait for the day to come where they realize that playing AND doing chores don't mix....and simply doing the latter quickly they can get to the playing part way faster.

So how do I reward all of our hard work you ask???

Saturday
I sanded and painted the living room. Nope, not joking. There is drywall dust everywhere. Not only that, but Dave used this special 'dustless' drywall mud, which is just code for 'way harder to clean.' The floors have been washed 10 times and are still dirty from that stuff....which if he uses in any other part of the house I'll refuse to help him in any way. The kids escape to the pool for the afternoon while I painted....the air was already blue because Dave forgot to mention that I needed a coarser sanding sponge for this stuff as well...so I had to work twice as hard and long to get the s#$@#$ thing sanded in the first place! I started sanding at 10:30am, and didn't finish painting until 12:30 am. Dave was gone for the day/night dj'ing and I won't lie...got some less than pleasant texts about his choice of drywall mud and forgetting to tell me about the different sponge type. My kids were left to fend for themselves for dinner...there were lots of leftovers in the fridge which was probably the one thing that was planned out well, then got to enjoy a movie together before heading to bed

Sunday
 After spending the morning cleaning up...again, my poor kids were happy to escape to their Nana's for the afternoon. I did some touch ups on the paint and am now sitting here admiring how much dust there still is despite my efforts to get rid of it. Oh ya, and Seraiah accidentally broke my mop this morning...so here I sit, knowing there are so many other things I should be doing and just not caring at this particular moment. Right now Jeshie is napping, so it's just me, Ashman, and Mike's Hard Limeade. Yum, and well earned!!

Some pics:

See you soon!