Is It Naptime Yet

I realized I hadn’t done any posts about what we’ve been up to this week, and it’s Friday…wait now it’s Saturday.

Monday I cleaned all day long. It was mostly de-cluttering and getting places for random things. I even organized my hall closet. It looks really nice in there now, maybe I’ll post an after picture since you’ve seen the before. After the girls were in bed I swept and mopped.

Tuesday morning I folded clothes, washed sheets, and did the regular kitchen chores.

Why did I go through every room and make them presentable, along with cleaning my dirty floors? It’s really quite simple.

We had our house sprayed by our bug guy and he goes in every room, thus every room had to be presentable, or at least clean enough that he could actually do his job and spray in them. I’d hate for him to get caught on the boxes for Jon’s solar oven or our shred pile.

We don’t regularly have the bug guy out. In fact this is may be the fourth time we’ve had them come out in three years. All the previous visits were for invasions of ants. We’re also not big fans of pesticide in our home, but now that the kids are older and I don’t have infants I feel a little more comfortable, though we don’t have a big bug problem in the house.

I wanted to mop only the day before he came to make sure I didn’t need to mop for at least a week, probably more with my track record, and  mop around pesticide.

I haven’t seen any dead bugs in the house, but we had a roach die by our front porch doormat and the spider that was making webs in our front dirt area was a black widow that died right next to our front door. I mean right next to it. And it was big. Have I ever mentioned how much I hate black widows?

It makes me want to have him spray the outside once a month to prevent these lovely creatures from coming into my house. Which is likely since we don’t have an airtight seal on the bottom of our front door.

I also had Britta Tuesday morning so Sam could study. Then Sam came over at lunch time and we made granola. I have a very easy recipe and she likes it so she may continue to use it if I were to e-mail it to her.

The girls were fascinated with the bug guy and silently followed him around. Well, they were silent until they got outside and Lilah started chatting about our cat cage. (We had another one pooping in our yard and caught it Sunday night.)

I clean for visitors and apparently our bug guy.

Who do you clean for?

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