I Have Problems - Right Here at Home

Last year, today was my last day before having my beautiful baby girl, Katelyn Joy! You might think this post is gonna be about her...but it's really not. Really, what I mean by that is, I was doing the exact some things last April as I am this April-except everyone accused me of nesting. I really don't think I ever truly nested with either child BUT in April every year I get this crazy spring cleaning urge.

Urge, really, is not a strong enough word. I am absolutely overtaken by the forces of the spring cleaning bug and I cannot fight back.

So, here I am, once again spring cleaning (nesting if this was last year.)Problem is, I have company coming. So, here's what happens. I go downstairs to get the guest room clean (you know, the normal, vaccum, dust, make the bed, etc) and come back up having completely sorted every drawer, the closet, the scrapbooking stuff, etc..

Then I restart. I have lunch or something and re-focus. "Ok Bethany. The goal here is a clean house for company. They won't be going through your deepest drawers." You know the talk. So, geared up to just do the basics, I head down.

So far I have completely re-organized, de-cluttered, and re-drawered my files. I have gone through all the drawers and closets in the entire house; re-organized my Pampered Chef inventory/supplies; decluttered my travel bag(YES, PEOPLE, MY TRAVEL BAG); Kaden's AND Katelyn's clothes have been gone through and weeded out-including halloween costumes, and winter wear. I've repacked my Christmas decor into a nicer tub...people-I've done everything!

Or so I think. Until I go down to SIMPLY dust and vaccum...and then I find another thing!

So, all that to say. My house is not clean. it needs vaccumed in the worst way. It is extremely dusty (Except the ledge that leads to the file cabinet..which I was dusting and is what brought me to the wretched file cabinet which sucked me in)... yes, that ledge is dusted.

So..I'm headed down to attempt this "basic cleaning" again. I have mapped out areas to stay away from. The laundry room for one. It's basically clean, but I just know it could suck me in. The shelf has a FEW things that could be reorganized and...well..you know. The storage under the stairs is another. The DVD rack---yes...even that is not safe. The refridgerater is a definite stay away from item.

Maybe I should just let myself be sucked in and apologize to my sneezy guests and explain why I didn't get the place dusted? (You see, this is the argument that GETS me sucked in in the first place.)

It's an evil bug. I love to hate it, and hate to love it.

BUT-I am planning to have a garage sale SOON-and I won't be finding things I wish I'd remembered to put in! I've found them!!!!

Also. I am NOT (I repeat, NOT) for hire.