So this week, both of my darling children went off to school. Yes, my youngest started kindergarten this week. As a Mom, I wanted to take my darling child to class the first day. Of course, my child decided to ride the bus with his sister. I tried to be a supportive mom and allowed him this new level of independence, but I got to tell you, I was dying inside. Not only did I send my youngest to Kindergarten, I sent him on a bus!
After a few little tears, I went home. I had decided to get my house in order. For the last 10 years, it had gotten wildly out of control, and I gladly allowed the chaos to take over. NO MORE! I was going to tackle the clutter and the dust. I had already done a decent job cleaning up the main areas of the living room and the kitchen, but I had a few areas that were still disasters.
Of course, as soon as I came into the house, planning on tackling the beast areas, my pets realized the kids were no longer in the house and demanded attention. My dog climbed into my lap and chose to camp out for a while. If I stopped rubbing his ears, he would pick up his head and look at me as if to say, hey, you aren't done yet. He finally had enough after about 10 minutes and moved over so he could take a real nap. As soon as he left, one of the cats decided it was his turn. He first climbed in my lap, then decided that nuzzling my leg was better. He clamped one leg on the top of my leg and another around the bottom and hugged me for probably another 15 minutes. Definitely not how I planned to start my day, but not the worst way either.
So I finally have satisfied pets, and can continue to clean. My family has acquired many buckets over the years. Most of them have accumulated in one area, and almost all of them have small toys in them. I had no less than 10 buckets filled with stuff that needed to be put away on top of any other clutter and junk that gathered around them. Most people would ask, why do I have so much stuff? I asked myself, why do we have this many buckets? After contemplating the bucket takeover, I started clearing the entire place out. I planned to vacuum the space, however as soon as I turned my back a cat had settled in the new, fun spot and fell asleep.
So since I couldn't vacuum, I decided to put all the junk away, bucket by bucket. I completed this daunting task in way more time than I had planned. Then I threw out all the buckets that were broken or missing handles. This ended up being 2 regular buckets and 5 Halloween pumpkin buckets . Why do I keep these things? I really don't know. I still have a pumpkin bucket running around, and about 6 more stacked neatly in an out-of-the-way location. To finish off, I scared away the cat and vacuumed. I felt a huge sense of accomplishment. One beast down.
The kids came home that night, and they had a great time. Everyone was happy to be back at school, and to be honest, I think we are all better for having some time away from each other. It makes our time together so much more fulfilling. We'll see how next week goes!
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