Yea for Obie!

Today Obie initiated sitting on the potty. . .many many times. Nothing. But this last time he asked to sit on the potty he pooped. Finally. We sang. We danced. And we all got jelly beans. Hopefully this will happen again sometime soon.

My game plan. . .

I can keep things tidy. I can keep things put away. I can keep laundry moving. Food on the table. Dishes pretty much clean. Toys put away. BUT. I. STINK. AT. ACTUAL. CLEANING. I have three kids. I don't want to be busy every night. I'm attempting to exercise. AND Mike is home in the evening. . .I don't want to spend that time cleaning. So I don't. I don't really clean. I staighten. This is fine until you take a close look. . .luckily most people don't. Mike doesn't and the kids don't but every once in awhile I do. . .and it drives me crazy. I wish I could really clean. I just need two extra hours a day with no one around. HA! Thats never going to happen. . .so I came up with a game plan, and I convinced Mike to help out with it. Here it is. . .from the Fly Lady.
There are "zones."
Each "zone" has a week.
Each week has a list.

This week it was the entry way and dining room. Since the kids were gone I tackled it. I've almost completed it. I done to the floor and dusting a few shelves. If I can be consistant, I figured the first month would be tough (since I haven't deep cleaned in a while), and then from then on it would get easier.

So here is the list:


FlyLady's Detailed Cleaning List - Zone 1: The
Entrance, Front Porch, and Dining Room
This is my detailed cleaning list for Zone 1. Ensure you adapt it to fit your
home and family. If you are still decluttering, you are not ready for this
whole list, concentrate on decluttering only! BabySteps! - FlyLady
Entrance Detailed Cleaning List:
Start at the ceiling and work your way down to the floor.
1. Clean cobwebs
2. Dust window sills and front door
3. Clean switch plate of hand prints and walls if needed
4. Put plants in to the shower and give them a good rinse. Let me set
there until you are finished.
5. Dust furniture
6. Dust baseboards
7. Straighten the coat closest
8. Sweep vacuum or mop the floor
9. Put back the plants. You would hate for DH to walk into a jungle
tomorrow morning. LOL
10. Add your own personal touches to make it more welcoming.
Dining Room Detailed Cleaning List
Start at the ceiling and work your way down to the floor.
1. Clean the cobwebs
2. Dust window sills
3. Clean the window
4. Clean doors of china cabinet after you straighten dishes if they
need done. Dust
5. Clean and straighten any drawer
6. Clean off top of Dining table and Polish
7. Rinse plants in the shower
8. Dust the bottoms of the chairs.
9. Dust the baseboards
10. Move furniture and vacuum underneath (except the china cabinet)
I turned mine over one time. It was not funny.
11. Add your own personal touches.

I didn't do the porch since it is freezing. Maybe next time.

How 'bout you. . .do you have a cleaning game plan? Does it work or do you just opt out of cleaning?

Weigh Day

Its that time again. . .time to set on the Wii and see how the week went. I exercised on the Wii 3 times and did the eliptical machine once. Yesterday I chose to go to Outback for someone's Birthday instead of doing the eliptical machine. . .I probably could have done both but I chose not to. I was a little worried that I wasn't going to have much change this week, but I stepped on and 156.5 poped up. I was happy with that. . .thats a pound from last week so I'm still on track. Its been 3 weeks and I've lost about 4.5 pounds. So not too bad. As long as things keep going down I'll be good.

Mama & M'

So today a friend took G' and O' out for the day, so I decided I'd take some pictures of M'. Its so much easier when O' isn't attempting to jump on her. . .plus I don't have to bribe people with quarters to get a good shot of them. So here are a few of my favorite. Now its time for some work. . .I probably should have worked and then had some fun but seems to me like the fun should come first to make sure it happens.

Before & After

This was actually left over stuff I just stuffed in until we get a chance to finish it all up. We aren't that unorganized.

Here was our project last night. The before cabinets all have chipping teal paint inside along with black and white checker paper to match the tile on the floor. We covered the whole thing with come neutral contact paper and this is what we got. It looks so much fresher and cleaner. . .we haven't mastered putting it in yet (its a pain) but the outcome is pretty good I thought.

Siblings

Once I bribed them with a quarter they did much better taking pictures all together. . .

Come On...Be Happy.

Need I say More. (the grumpiness only lasted about 30 minutes...I should be happy)