Good morning!
Hope you all had a nice Valentine's day! We had a simple dinner but made it special with candlelight! Also we opened the cards from the grandparents and had heart-shaped Reese's peanut butter cups.
I had a great day yesterday. Jordan doesn't have football workouts this morning so I was able to sleep in a bit. I still had to take Christie to school for early morning seminary but the extra 45 minutes of sleep was great. When I got home, I got right into my work. I got the kitchen cleaned up before my younger boys woke up. After getting them off to school, I tore into the boys' bedroom. I pulled out the beds from the wall and cleaned and vacuumed under/behind them. I gathered all the dirty laundry and stripped the beds and got everything washed. I gathered all the toys, etc. that didn't belong in the room and put them in a box to sort today. By the time I was done, the room looked, smelled and felt great.
I also cleaned out my room. My room is on the main floor with the living room and kitchen and I have a (bad) habit of "speed cleaning" by putting everything that doesn't belong in the public spaces in there. Problem is, it stays! Even though I've been over the cold I've had for a couple of days now, the dust that was gathering on all the stuff in the room was really bothering me and my husband. We had dry coughs at night. So I moved all the stuff that needed to go out into the living room and gave the room a good vacuuming. Steven cleaned our ceiling fan (yuck!). I slept so much better last night. I'm sure part of it was all the physical work I'd done yesterday but it was nice to not wake up with a dry and swollen throat. The humidifier helped too, I'm sure.
So all in all, a great day yesterday.
Today I have someone coming to fix a broken valve that controls the water for our sprinkler system. I have cleaned up the kitchen and have the first of three laundry loads going. I need to try to have everything that requires water done by 9:30 because my lawn guy has to turn off the house water while he replaces the valve.
While the water is off, I will work on putting away all the clothes I washed yesterday, going through the boys' clothes and paring them down. Nathan especially has way more shirts than he needs. I'll also go through the bins, boxes and baskets that I took out of my room and get all that stuff sorted and put away. Tomorrow is garbage/recycling collection day so I will be going through the house to collect garbage and recycling. I want to clear off the flat surfaces in my bedroom and get the furniture dusted. Then I'll vacuum one more time and my bedroom should be much more pleasant to sleep in.
I'd also like to collect stuff for a Deseret Industries (LDS church version of Goodwill) run. A lot of it is already in boxes, etc., I just need to get it all in the car.
All of that will probably keep me busy all day.
Dinner tonight will be chicken fajitas and green chili rice.
Merilee