It seems that most of us have caught it. I have spent the week, organizing closets, painting a room, and generally cleaning, cleaning and more cleaning. I have a back office room but it is attached to my master bath, so it is in an odd spot. It has more often been used as a junk room, and was stacked full of old mail, electronics, books and just crap in general. Did I mention it was also this beigy peach color that drove me crazy and it had an FSU border?? Well of course I had to pull off the border, and paint it!
Can I just say that being a patient mom, driven and in project mode is completely incompatible. Maddy brushed by the ladder, which made it fall and a full gallon of paint fell into my master tub.. Liv just stood there and then I guess from the look on my face decided to put her hands up to her ears. It made me stop and swallow my anger, and instead just called Mike to come get his kids!
Well, I think God has a sense of humor because not 30 minutes later, while on the ladder I spilled a full gallon of paint on the carpet and ruined it. So I had to tell Mike, and Maddy, pull up the carpet, paint the floor, wake Mike up to build the shelves because I wanted them done that night ;), and then start organizing. I had only allotted 1 day for that room and I was determined to keep to my deadline.
I rented the rug doctor to clean my carpet. It worked okay for the 26.00 rental fee. Then I moved on to my upstairs guest bedroom.
I could barely open the door, it was piled up, and soon to be creeping out the hall. Well once in there I kept finding clothes and things that the kids had recently been wearing or playing with. I called Maddy in and asked her how these items foun their way into the guest room. She hesitated so I KNEW she had been cleaning her room by tossing what she didn't want to put awayinto a room she knew I did not go into... I can just say that by this point I lost it.
Anyway, I have the school room, a touch up on the kids closets, and my kitchen, pantry, and laundryroom and I am done.... I am trying not to just do my usual clean but to organize, cull out and logically organize so that I can go back to our cleaning system. It worked very well and was introduced to me by Steph. I got each room clean and organized, and then taught Maddy and Liv what I wanted and expected and how to clean the room. I posted the steps to do it, so there was not any thought on how to clean. After they were trained I treated it as disobedience if they didn't complete their chores properly. It worked really well, but I just have gotten out of the habit. So hopefully once I get it back under control I can reintroduce this system.
So anyway, life hasn't been all that fun here at the Freeman house this week, but I am hoping it will pay off when we have more free time in the end...
Happy 4th everyone
Thursday, July 03, 2008
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2 comments:
Sounds like it is coming along. The paint on the carpet sounds like a nightmare...poor thing.
LOL. at first this post was depressing me as I realized all the things we women go through, suffer from, try do un-do form our own upbringing, try to instill without KILLING them, and then toward the end, when you said it really works when you are sticking to it, I remembered. Right, It DOES. I need to remember that myself. And when we undo ourselves from all we have done, I will NEVER be more appreciative of training children. I also am reminded, during this seemingly impossible time, that I need to THANK GOD that we trained them already this far! Thank you for comforting me in my time of need!!
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