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Saturday Marathon Clean

Posted by Maggie Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:35:00 GMT

So, I know I haven’t written in ages, but life happens. Here are somethings going on:

Princess Olive turned 4 and we had a grand party at Momo and Dodo’s house.

Princess Olive also started going to speech twice a week to help her catch up to her peers.

Princess Peach started rolling over and is almost sitting up on her own as well (she can for a few seconds anyways).

The two princesses get a long great. They love giggling together.

Sorry for such a quick recap, but that is not the main purpose of this post. The main purpose of this post is to track my progress in my mad cleaning today. We had a very busy few weeks. We were in Sacramento for a couple of weeks and then we had water damage in our master bedroom due to a neighbor’s negligence, so we were out of our room for a while and even out of our house a few days and then we had to remove everything off the floor in our room, including the closet so they could replace the carpet. Add that to my normal messiness and our house is a disaster.

I was able to get the insurance covering the damages to agree to pay a friend to help me put the closet and room back together, so a good friend came and helped me do that last week. But now there’s still everything else. If I knew how to post pictures, I’d do before and after, but that would probably be too embarrassing anyways.

For those of you (if anyone is even checking this site anymore) who knew me in my younger years, know how messy I can really be and right now almost my whole house looks like my room did growing up. I’d like to think I’ve come a long way since then, but then all of a sudden I’m back to my old ways. One of the biggest desires of my life is for my home to be a haven for my family. For me to really be that Proverbs 31 woman that provides good food, clothing and shelter for her family. And also is so gracious to her family and those around her. I have such a long way to go. Procrastination and a lack of diligence are my greatest sins in preventing me from accomplishing this for my family.

So here are my big motivators for working hard today.

1. To give my family a happy home, although this aught to be all I need it’s not, so I have more 2. I have until Monday or a friend is going to come while I watch her kids and do it for me and then my things are at her mercy. 3. Housekeepers are coming on Wednesday, so they need clear surfaces to clean (isn’t my hubby nice to do that for me once a month! :) ) 4. I want to devote several days of nothing other than potty training Princess Olive. In order to do that I need a clean house and food for easy meals. 5. I would really like our Sunday to be a day of rest on a regular basis.

Princess Peach is done nursing (laptops are great for multitasking) so here I go. I’ll let you know what all I accomplish at the end of the day.