Cute Julia. Had to include that blurred picture. Cute nonetheless. Okay, so really I've been cleaning like my mother in law who just entered an abandoned hotel. Some screwy things went on and it's a long story, end of it is I'm cleaning the whole house. Yep all 2000 plus square feet. She's gonna be a beauty in the end, but check this out. Of course my before and after pictures of the floor are messed up.
Here's the clean floor. Comet man. Comet. That's an after picture.
Oh, this is cute. this is the back room where the last tenants had pets. YUCK. Oh throw up. I will just pause to say that the lease had a hard core no pet policy. I think they are getting the worst end of the stick. Luckily, we took up the that nasty carpet and are putting in tiles tomorrow. I'll post some after photos in a few days...weeks.
and this is the lovely before shot of my floor. HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO MOVE INTO THAT? But really, I love the manager. she's heaven sent and has cut me some sweet deals. In return, I clean my way. So here's the stats:1st bath: 2 hours
Tiles of front entry, kitchen and hall: 4 hours
Carpets: 4 hours and counting
Back room:5 hours.
Yard: 2 hours and counting yes, I found a 13 gallon bucket of dog poo outside the house by, get this, recycling!!! If it wasn't so gross I'd really think that was funny.
Sweeping hard wood floors: 1 hour
Kitchen in general minus stove: 5 (that's plus unpacking)
Oh, I have so much more to go. Like weeks. But that's okay. I've gotten things clean my way and stuff is being sorted out by my kids, they are really pitching in. Paul and Lydia unloaded all of their books in the study room. RIGHT in the Middle of the study. Love that. And I've really had to stop and play pirates, swing on the porch swing...really love that, make trips to the library and kiss baby toes and make dinner and do piles of laundry, so that's why we are moving so dang slow. That's okay though because Tom informed me he'll be a ghost for the next 6 months. I guess I have a bit of time right? When I get through this train wreck I'm gonna post some really clean picts. like so clean you could eat right off the floor...in the back room. ha ha ha.
