There is nothing better than the eminent arrival of Spring to make you want a cleaner house. I have no idea why Spring makes me want to be cleaner. I am already a very clean person. My whole house is cleaned, scrubbed, dusted and disinfected every week. But this week I am cleaning out all the closets, getting bags ready to be donated, reorganizing the toys, catching up on laundry and mending. You name it, if I haven't had time to do it, or I lacked the motivation to do it over the winter, I am doing it now.
I think that all of this cleanliness is also in preparation for my least favorite thing about Spring.. I love that in Spring the air warms up and that crisp, cold winter air slowly becomes warmer, more balmy. I HATE the mud, everything in spring starts off so brown and muddy. My kids drag it in the house, my dog drags it in the house, and I spend 2 long months cleaning the front room over and over again to get rid of the mud. I have decided that I really need to clean out my garage so that we can set up a mud room in there this year. I would love to have a place where my kids can hang up their snow clothes, and leave their boots before they come in the house. I can see it now, the thought of a mud room makes me extremely happy.
This is all of course a preliminary to other things I do every spring like clean out all the kitchen cupboards and scrub the windows down inside and out, and of course wash the curtains and stuff.
I know it all sounds a little crazy, but I love it. You know what they say, a clean home makes you happy, healthy and more productive. Let's hope that the productiveness stays all summer long!
I too love a clean house but hate how much work it takes to keep it clean. I desperately yearn for the days when my Mom did all the clean. Talk about a neat freak! She even ironed my Marian skirt! Haha. I used to get so mad when she would do that.
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