I’ve returned to a rather cold Essex and I’m back to blog again…or not!
Posts for the next couple of weeks may be short and sweet. I’ve spent a lot of time reading blogs and writing here over the past couple of months and for the moment the house needs me more! I might manage a quick update a day, but I might not!
I’ve finally started to realise I’m much happier when the house is clean and tidy, but it’s going to take a fair bit of work to get there. I spent time on the dining room table last Monday before I went away and it’s been great for us all to be able to eat there together again. I’d much rather do that than trays on knees and the munchkin on her little table and chair near by.
Now that the dining table is clear I’m moving on to the kitchen. The cooker side has been cleaned, tidied and reorganised (and the fat fryer cleaned and put away – it wasn’t helping the diet). Now I’m on the other side. I’m currently working on removing a soap dispenser the old owners of the house put up, not with screws through the holes designed for the purpose but with lots of strips of sticky foam pads! It’s going to be a bit of a challenge to get it all off, but it’ll be worth it in the end. I still need to clean out the cupboards, something sticky has leaked in one (a while ago!) and I haven’t sorted it out yet (I know,it’s disgusting!).
I’m going to try and slowly catch up with blogs, but with 557 posts to read on bloglines it may take some time! (I think I need to cut that down again too!).
April 7, 2008 at 5:53 pm
TOP TIP: surgical spirit removes all sticky stuff
April 7, 2008 at 9:11 pm
It doesn’t take long for bloglines to become unmanageable!
We are currently trying to get the house tidy after the long winter and it’s not easy. One thing I did last week was to clean a kitchen cupboard as I cooked dinner and it worked well as I needed to be on hand for the occasional stir. So I’m going to try that again and hopefully will soon have the kitchen sorted!
April 7, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Welcome back. Take it one step at a time and before you know it – you’ll be done!
April 7, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Welcome back!
If you’ve cleared your dining table, could you come do mine?? J’s asked me to leave it for the moment since a lot of it is his ‘junk’ (my description, not his) but it doesn’t look like it will be cleared any time soon…
April 10, 2008 at 3:28 pm
I’m with you on feeling better when the house is tidy! I posted pictures of my upstairs which was a disgrace and just last night I posted the clean versions. (Well, not the 2 older kids…they didn;t really bother cleaning) I feel so much better now with things clean. I found that giving myself a daily schedule was the way to go. Now I just need to get the 2 older ones on one.