Sweet 'n' Sassy Girls

Cleaning Day

Posted on 24. Sep, 2009 by Trish in Family Life

Last night at 7:45, my phone rings.  It’s my mom.

They are coming up today and wanted to know if they can stay with us.

“Of course,” I told her.

Now usually when my parents come into town they stay with my mom’s parents or other family.  We live a little out of the way and in a small townhouse, so there’s not a ton of room.  But my aunt is staying at my grandparents and they are getting in pretty late so they don’t want to inconvenience other family.

This is both a good and bad thing.  They’ll get to see their only grandkid a whole lot more this trip, and they are going to try to help us build a wood platform so I can finally get that washer and dryer I won.  I might even be able to talk them into starting that bathroom downstairs they said they’d help with when we bought the place 3 years ago!

My parents live a good 10 hours away, so it’s not that often they get to come up, and lately when they do it’s only for a day to watch my sister play softball.  That is why they are coming up this time too, but instead of coming up Friday and leaving Sat, they’re coming up today and leaving Sat night.

Now the bad thing is that I need to clean my house.  Crap!  If it was just my mom, I wouldn’t be too concerned, but since my Dad is coming too.  Well.  That’s another story.  I guess even after all these years, I don’t want my dad disappointed in me.  I’m not the best housekeeper, I know that.  I tend to collect a lot of clutter and have a hard time keeping things organized.

So after I got off the phone I started going into planning mode.  My mom wants to stay in the basement, which means we need to clear a spot down there.  Then the extra mattress is in the laundry room, and we need to move a bunch of stuff around just to get it out.  So my husband and I were down there trying to organize and get rid of tons of boxes and stuff we had just taking up room.  We finally quit about 10:30, but we got the laundry room all organized and cleaned up, and the basement picked up quite a bit.  I even got lots of stuff out of the dining room because there was finally room downstairs!  Yay!  I’ve been telling my husband we need to do this for quite a while, but it never happened.

Now today I need to finish cleaning the kitchen and dining room, as well as give the bathroom a nice deep clean.  On top of that I need to do laundry so they can have clean towels and sheets.

I was feeling quite overwhelmed last night, but after all the work we did, I’m feeling much more optimistic about it.  Good thing they aren’t getting in till late so I have all day to work on it. 

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