The Great Summer Clean Up

We've got overnight guests coming in a couple of weeks and lots of little and big projects we should be getting started on anyway. Guests are always a great motivator for me, so I'm going to capitalize on that. :) I'll break it down room by room and perhaps post some before and after pics.

Bathroom
~scrape old caulk, clean, re-caulk
~lay new floor tiles
~clean & repaint trim
~hang new shower curtain liner
~hang new curtain

Hallway
~paint doors
~wash walls, touch up paint
~wash floors & trim

Porch
~tidy
~clean glass table
~new chairs?

Basement
~wash floors
~general declutter
~vacuum window sills
~replace light bulbs
~vacuum laundry room

Kitchen
~wash cabinets
~wash fridge
~clean out freezer

It's a lot but I've got a full weekend home alone and no real spending money to speak of, so here we'll be with time and idle hands. And there's lots here the kids can help with. So I'm hoping to get a good bit of this stuff done over the next 3 days. :)

Abandoned

This blog has been abandoned.

You can find bethany at her vox blog.

We gave up on the family blogging thing. Decluttering and reorganizing continue. Pics at :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dawningmama/

Bethany blogs mainly at vox:
http://dawning.vox.com/

And Rob is (newly!) over at lj, for now anyway:
http://robbymack.livejournal.com/

Uh

Forgot about this.

We kind of gave up.

We are having company tomorrow, though. And I have plans to have company quite a bit over the next few weeks. I like to entertain as the weather turns chilly. So, we'll get back on track. I need to do some major decluttering before Yule decorating. It's also a good time of year to freecycle, craigslist and ebay those things that are just taking up space.

Keep up the good work!!!

August turned out to pretty good for the McFarms cleaning-wise! We didn't stay on task ALL the time, but the sink has been shining most mornings and laundry has stayed under control. the kids rooms are looking good, too! Good job everyone!

Morning Routines!

The kids made their morning routine sheets today! They look awesome! I am going to put them in sheet protectors and into my control journal so we can check them off w/ dry erase markers each morning.

We kicked ass on the cleaning yesterday! The girls' room looks really great and we tossed 6 bags of trash and broken/unused toys.

Today is for resting and laundry and packing. We leave for 3 days/2 nights in Atlantic City tomorrow ('cept poor papa who has to work :( ).

Wow!

No, I'm not writing about World of Warcraft (although I should have a little more time to play tonight!) - I'm really impressed by how clean the house was when I got home today! I'm sure Bethany and the kids can write more about the work they did. It was very pleasant to walk in the house (after passing a big pile of trash bags on the front porch) and see the progress that happened today.

I'll see if I can take the kids swimming for a little while as a reward for doing a good job today!