Spriiiing cleaning! Spriiiing cleaning! In February!

Last night it took me FOREVER to get to sleep because I was thinking about all the cleaning I should be doing. Our house is pretty cluttered. It's hard to keep it as clean as I want it when an "almost" 2 year old is running around the house getting into everything. Maybe I'll feel better if my chore list is written down/typed out instead of it haunting my dreams.

1) Clean the bathrooms...especially the second one we never really use. Explanation! A few months ago, the small bathroom I normally only used to primp myself in (put on my makeup/do my hair) was overrun by ants! They were crawling all over the sink and in the shower. So gross! I read online that ants hate any kind of spices especially cinnamon so I sprinkled a whole bottle of cinnamon ALL over the sink, shower, and floor. Now there are no more ants but cinnamon stains all over! Do you think spices can eat into shower tiles? I seriously need to clean the shower. I bought some bathroom cleaner with bleach in it. Hopefully that will do the trick. We're only renting this house so that would suck if I ruined the nice white shower floor because of my super hatred for ants. =(

2) Tidy up the bookshelves. It used to only hold our huge DVD collection, Ryan's board games, and picture frames but we've gotten lazy and just threw all of our junk mail on the shelves. Everyday I pass the shelves and shudder at how cluttered it is.

3) Scrub the stovetop. Maybe clean the oven.

4) Clean out the fridge. I know we have a bunch of random condiments we don't use anymore.

5) Separate my clothes into warm weather and cold weather.

6) Organize the laundry room.

7) Get all of Barrett's random toys out from under the couches. There are random toy cars, blocks, etc. under there. The couches are so heavy I need to ask Ryan to help me but by the time he comes home from work, he always seems so tired. We'll get to this one of these years. Haha.

Okay.......after typing all this out I don't feel better at all. This list makes it seem like we live in a pigsty. We don't! I swear! I don't belong on Hoarders, honest! (I actually watch that show just to make me feel better.) I don't even know how long it will take me to get all of this done. Once it is done, it will probably be time for me to start cleaning all over again. It's hard to get things done while taking care of my son and nephew. Whenever I do try and clean they always want my attention, or are hungry/thirsty, or want to play a game. C'est la vie! Not to sound morbid, but when I'm at the end of my days what will I want to do one more time? Scrub cinnamon off the floor or play a game of hide and seek with the 2 little boys I love the most? I think we all know the answer to that. ;)