As I'm hosting a belated birthday party for Nathan (6 already!!!), and I'm feeling energetic, I thought I'd spend my day going nuts and purging any last lingering flu germs that might be hiding in the house. Linens were attacked first. Then the floors.
(Some helpers have more fun than others.)
Then any toys that were played with recently--and any toys that I knew have been in mouths for the last month.
If the kids hadn't been so helpful, I probably wouldn't have been so ambitious. I even gave them wet cloths to wipe walls and doorknobs with, and they worked hard at that too! Nathan was definitely the hardest worker though. (Part of his motivation was to empty the bathtub before suppertime so that he'd be allowed a bath after we ate!)
Last of all was giving the kids baths. (That never happens often enough around here!)
I don't know what's wrong with me. I've never done this kind of frenzied cleaning before, for flus or otherwise. Maybe it's because the flu took so long to get over, and I just feel so ichy that I need to clean clean clean. Or maybe it's because of the party, and I'm (for a change) feeling conscientious about germ spreading. Maybe I'm growing up (NO!!!). Or maybe I'm just getting more paranoid with age.
Nobody had better get sick again for the next few days so that clean feeling can sink in for a while.
2 comments:
Good job !! what I always hated after a big clean like that was that it might last for a day, if you're lucky :o)
Yay for a super clean house :-) I always love that feeling!
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