Today's To-Do List

I've enterted into the "I've fallen and I can't get up" level of cleaning in my house. Time to get serious.

1. Clean out and organize the laundry room-it also houses my reusable shopping bags, all of our art and crafting supplies, travel bags, recycling, cleaning supplies, and miscellaneous storage- it can become quite the disaster

2. Hand wash all my hand wash only items

3. Organize craft and art supplies 

4. Take goodwill donations

5. Vacuum floors

6. Dust the whole place

7. Clean, no, really clean the kid's room
8. Make dental appointments

Little Projects Simmering Around My House

1. Lining and/or re-lining some of my drawers and cabinets
2. Installing a pull-down spice rack in my high cabinet
3. Switching out art
4. Reorganizing kitchen cabinets and bathroom cabinet (I would like a congratulations for operating a family of four out of one 19X20 bathroom cabinet)
5. Touching up paint
6. Purchasing photo albums and making photo books
7. Starting to get ideas to re-do the guest bathroom
8. Re-grouting our bathroom (I think I'll actually save this for my dad on his next visit)

Around the House Dislikes

1. Dirty dishes in the sink that are filled with water. Hate it!

2. When the kitchen counters get littered with things. I like them to be perfectly clean. I blame my mother.

3. Fingerprints on the living room tables, but alas, it's a winless game I'm playing.

4. The dustbunnies that form and hang out along our hallway wall

5. When our middle blanket comes...nevermind. My bed rules could be a whole list in and of itself.

6. When A puts the dishes in the dishwasher the wrong way. For instance, I like to keep silverware handle up and I always start filling it up from the back.

7. Exposed cords

8. I don't like the setup of the kid's room, and am irritated that there really isn't another option.

9. When people hang their toilet paper the wrong way. Ha!

10. Lights off in the main living area during the day

What Came Out From Under My Stove With The Help Of The Long Arm Of My Swiffer Duster

1. 6 pieces of popcorn

2. A multitude of dry beans of many varieties

3. Dust bunnies that combined to be the size of one small possum

4. A few kiblets of dog food

5. Many bits of uncooked spaghetti

6. Three glittery crafting pom poms

7. Six cents

8. A pinwheel pasta piece

9. Random trash- hair strands, bits of unknown, crumbs, etc.

10. Popcorn kernels

11. Something that looked like a dried, shriveled, peanut in its shell

My Cleaning Frenzy Today

1. Cleaned under and behind the cribs

2. Vacuumed all mop boards

3. Dusted the whole house

4. Cleaned all shelves

5. Washed bedding

6. Vacuumed under all the furniture

7. Vacuumed under all the sofa cushions

8. Carpet cleaned the rugs, sofas, and carpet

9. Did laundry

10. Cleaned the leather chairs

Household Chores My 3 Year Old Helps Out With

1. W can set the table

2. She can put away the laundry. I just taught her where everything goes and am okay with it being a slower and messier process that me doing it myself.

3. She is responsible for keeping her shoes and her brothers shoes in the shoe drawer.

4. She puts on her own shoes and helps her brother put on his shoes.

5. W can easily clean up all the toys in the house- I give her little jobs at a time so that it's less overwhelming- the cars, the puzzles, the babies, etc.

6. She gets (most) items off of the shelf at the grocer and puts them in the buggy for me.

7. She brushes her teeth.

8. Her favorite jobs are helping me put on a clean tablecloth and helping me make my bed.

9. She does love little jobs such as, "Would you put this bag in the laundry room?" or "Could you turn the TV off?" I think it makes her feel like my partner, which is her ultimate dream.

My House Looks Infinitely Better If I...

1. Clean my kitchen counters (in our loft, they are right in the middle of our home)
2. Pick up the puzzles
3. Pick up the cars
4. Make our bed
5. Put the double stroller in the laundry room
6. Take the tablecloth off
7. Clean the glass coffee table and end table

8. Put on pants


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Kitchen Overhaul

1. Need to find some space for my new convection toaster oven and rice cooker
2. Packing away to storage some bigger pieces/serving pieces/decorative pieces that we don't use right now
3. Getting rid of baby stuff- bottles, lots of bibs, restaurant mats, etc. Let W keep a couple bottles for her dolls.
4. Combining my small pyrex/glass food containers into the big drawer with freezer bags, aluminum foil, parchment paper
5. Packing away wine glasses--never use those
6. Getting rid of plastic food storage containers, cookbooks I have never used, and candles that I have
7. Reorganizing some food so that R cannot get into the cereal containers...a constant struggle at our house
8. Need to make our panini press more accessible...we use it nearly every day
9. Laying out my blender to be repaired
10. If I need it, I will no longer have a drawer reserved for our dog
11. There are 3 big cabinets that can be condensed into 1 1/2, I think

The Mess That Has Completely Hidden My Island Counter

1. Camera bag

2. 2 pairs of pants and one shirt and their receipts I need to return

3. W's first preschool art piece

4. Bag of crayons

5. Some poster or something rolled up (it's A's thing, I have no idea what it is)

6. A lab request for R's bloodwork

7. Whole Foods receipt

8. Our camera (not in it's bag, clearly)

9. W's birth certificate

10. Southern Living

11. A's bike owner's manual

12. Artist bios from the art we purchased last week at the art fair

13. Bubbles (from Gymboree...those are the best)

14. A bag of Billy Goat chips

15. 4 Preserve toothbrushes (we just got a yearly subscription)

16. My sunglasses

17. My tote bag filled with a bunch of randomness--waiting to be cleaned out

18. 3 big cookies in packages

19. A pile of napkins

20. Our fruit basket with a granola bar, 3 Granny Smith apples, 3 sweet potatoes, and 4 bananas

21. Laptop

22. A cardboard envelope needing to be in the recycling

What I Need To Clean The Highchair

1. A damp dishtowel
2. A dry dishtowel
3. Dobie pad
4. Butter knife
5. Something to watch on TV
6. A toothpick
7. Mrs. Meyer's Baby Clean Day Surface Spray

I'm So Proud Of The Cleaning I Got Done Yesterday

1. Balcony (I did the door, but A scrubbed the floor!)

2. Hard wood floors

3. All dusting

4. Rearranged shelves and bookshelves

5. Flipped and cleaned glass on tables

6. Cleaned leather chairs and the sofa

7. Sent a bunch of toys, etc. to Goodwill

8. Cleaned kitchen cabinet doors

9. Bon-Ami to beautify my sink

10. Scrubbed the dirtiest place in my house...the strip of hard wood between the rug and cabinets in my kitchen

11. Cleaned all chairs and barstools

12. Washed laundry

13. Switched out my shoes--winter out, summer in

14. Cleaned bathrooms

15. Threw away all bath toys that have a squeeezy/squirter hole in them

16. Cleaned out refrigerator

17. Organized bathroom cabinets

Household Chores I Do Not Like Doing

1. Cleaning the tile in our shower/tub area

2. Cleaning underneath the stovetop/burner area on my gas stove

3. Cleaning the hard wood in my kitchen around the edges of the cabinets

4. Spot cleaning the bedroom carpet

5. Washing the outside of the glass balcony door

6. Cleaning all 3 glass tables (side, coffee, dining) because I have to do it twice a day because of R and his scooting around/drooling around

7. Folding and putting away laundry

8. Ironing A's work shirts

10 Easy Ways To Green Your Home (from everydayhealth.com)

1. Replace your lightbulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs

2. Maximize heating and cooling efficiency

3. Eat local and organic

4. Unplug electric "vampires" (things that remain plugged in)

5. Reduce, reuse, recycle

6. Choose nontoxic products

7. Purchase Energy Star products

8. Drink filtered tap water

9. Shorten your shower

10. Choose sustainable seafood

Things That I See On The Floor Of My Otherwise Immaculate Home

1. Abby doll

2. The Eric Carle stacking blocks

3. A Tupperware pitcher

4. Baby Stella's binkie

5. W's rain boots

6. The tray of craft supplies from making W's invitations

7. My iPhone

8. My Deceptively Delicious cookbook

Seventh Generation Products We Use

1. All-Purpose Cleaning Spray
2. Glass Cleaning Spray
3. Toilet Paper
4. Baby Wipes
5. Paper Towels
6. Diapers
7. Toilet Bowl Cleaner
8. Dishwasher Rinse Aid
9. Dryer Sheets
10. Laundry Detergent
11. Liquid Dish Soap
12. Feminine Care Products
13. Dishwashing Detergent

A's Honey-Do List

1. Disassemble the jumper and store

2. Help me with the laundry room

3. Store ladder and pack-n-play

4. Get rid of pile of books

5. Move exercise bike

6. Trash and recycling

7. Help me with party invitations

What I've Cleaned Today

1. Kitchen counters
2. Unpacking from trip
3. Puke off of my daughter
4. Poop off of my son
5. Crusted diaper cream off of my daughter
6. Puke off of my floor, bed, duvet, duvet cover....
7. Dishes
8. Not myself, at all

Monthly Cleaning Schedule

1. Week One: Refrigerator, chairs, barstools
2. Week Two: Under furniture, wipe down furniture
3. Week Three: Balcony door, mopboards
4. Week Four: Closets, cabinets
5. Week Five: Laundry room

My Weekly Cleaning Schedule

1. Monday: Vacuuming, Windexing
2. Tuesday: Floors
3. Wednesday: Laundry, Ironing
4. Thursday: Windexing, Dusting
5. Friday: Laundry, Kitchen
6. Saturday: Bathrooms
7. Sunday: Laundry, Microwave

What I'm Putting Away

1. The swing. Rush is not into it anymore.

2. The gymini. Same story.

3. My pump. Hardly ever use it.

4. About half of Winnie's toys

5. (Almost) the basinette. We are phasing out of it.

6. One of our single strollers. We are double stroller people now.