destructo-girl

we're having out-of-town company tonight::

donors kirb knows through work.

the people we stayed with when we went to texas.

we don't know them very well.

{don't worry, they aren't crazy:: they're just coming for dessert and to say hi and meet the small people . . . they aren't staying here or anything!}

the house is pretty much a disaster! {it was SUPER clean on saturday:: floors mopped. kitchen cleaned. junk picked up. beds made . . . but that has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with monday. today it is another story all together!}

anna does things like this {she was caught -- or just lost interest -- when there were about 3 tissues left in the fairly newish box of 200. it's so fun that they just keep popping up like that!}::
which do not help the situation any!

plus, i'm sick!

thankfully {i'm trying to look on the bright side here!} with this nasty cold i've got, i go through about this many tissues every 5 minutes or so. thus, i won't even bother picking them up, i'll just use them off the floor and the problem should resolve itself very shortly!

now, i'd better get back to work. there's LOTS to be done!

The joys of motherhood

A diaperless Anna pooped on the floor this morning {the floor I mopped just yesterday, I might add!!} proceeded to step in the pile of nastiness and then walk throughout the house!

I'm not exactly sure what it was in her diet the past few days that made this particular mess exceptionally gross, but let me assure you: IT WAS GROSS! The entire main floor stunk and the big kids held their noses as they proceeded outside until the incident was all taken care of!

So, I stuck Anna {and Joe, since he wanted to join her} in the tub to soak and self-clean and began the battle against the poop. The big stuff was picked up and tossed, what remained was wiped up, rugs {smallish ones, thankfully!} were picked up {some thrown right in the wash and some spot cleaned, hosed down and hung outside to dry}, floors were swept and then attacked with a mop. I was almost there . . .

Shortly after the freshly cleaned floor was dry and shiny {ok, 30 year-old linoleum never really gets "shiny", but you get the point} Lydia proceeded to spill lemonade on it. A pretty decent amount of lemonade. And, I should mention, before spilling it on the floor it also spilled in the fridge! Super! So I got the mop out again! Hopefully this time it will stay clean for more than 23 minutes.

So, the rugs are all clean {most are even dry and back in their proper places in the house}:

Some, however are still basking in the sun:

The baby is clean {and so is her brother}:

The floor is clean.

This all started at 11 o'clock, right before we were planning a fun visit to the library. It is now 3 and, instead, we're off to the park in hopes that the house can stay clean for just a little while and we can enjoy this amazingly glorious day!