Small Successes-August 12th

Celebrating the little things in life that add up.

1.  My cleaning spree from the past couple of weeks continues.  Yesterday I cleaned the kitchen and made it shine.  I had been avoiding cleaning the stove top because it's just such a pain to take off the burners, the little round burner cover things and the drip pans and then clean them and the stove top.  I decided yesterday that I just needed to deal with it and clean it.  In cleaning it I got the brilliant idea to use baking soda to try and get some of the grime off of the drip pans.  It worked like a charm.  I don't think the stove has looked so new since a week or two after it was delivered three years ago.  Why didn't I think of this sooner?

2. All of the rooms on the main level have been straightened, vacuumed or swept, and dusted.  I even cleaned all of the windows on this level (Interiors only lest anyone think I'm a crazy over achiever.  I'm just your run of the mill over achiever.).  While I did this naughty Mr. Furkins was out in the yard getting muddy.  As a result, I also had to add giving the dog a bath and brushing him to my to do list yesterday.  Now he's a clean smelling dog that is not shedding all over the house.  I suspect that will last a day.

3. Laundry?  Yeah, I've got that covered.  I even ironed the clothes that had been waiting two weeks for some attention in that area.

Bonus:  I caught up with a very dear friend who I hadn't seen in a while.  She came to my house for the afternoon (when it wasn't clean-and I didn't even freak out about it) and we had a great time.  Her two little boys were a delight.  Ellie was thrilled to play with her son who is 14 months younger.  We all doted on her infant son.  He's such a lovable little chunk of a baby.  When they left my girls were asking for a baby brother.