Being Neglected...

I mentioned this to Mimi yesterday and felt I would share... She had mentioned that I was so "stinkin' busy" and yeah, I guess I was/is/whatev. But now that the wedding is past, I've realized how neglected our house had become. Every spare minute was to make that day special and it had nothing to do with our house, so that fell by the wayside.

I hadn't planned much past Saturday. Everything was for that day. Sunday morning I felt like I was missing something. And actually I was! I had misplaced my Sunday School teachers manual in the wedding rush and was very unprepared for my little preschooler children that I teach. We got to church a smidge early and I scrambled. How on EARTH was I going to teach the kids about Potiphar's wife without some guidance from that teacher's manual???

"Um kids... Potiphar's wife wanted Joseph to do some really bad things and he wouldn't. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?"

Yeah.. That was going to bring up questions... "What wicked things teacher??" Turns out that the three kids that I have in my little 3 year old group were ALL gone for the weekend! How was THAT for a blessing?! I got to sit in with the adult Bible study instead! I haven't done that for a while.

Since then I've been wrangling with a dishwasher that decided to die, so washing dishes by hand and getting caught up with them have taken a portion of my free time as well as trying to find places to tuck the wedding gifts and supplies. The newlyweds will be living with us until one of them gets out of school. Whenever I'm in the house I'm constantly putting things away and trying to keep the dining room table cleared off. With 7 people in the house, it's rather difficult.

So Tuesday night, (still on the busy high) I took my busy-ness energy to a whole 'nother level and cleaned the laundryroom. Now that the male Golden's kennel is in the garage for the time being, I felt it was necessary to clean off the things that had gotten piled up on the counters in the last several months. Got a large garbage bag of junk to get rid of and a bag or two of Goodwill stuff. I can now see the places where I typically store the crock pots and other small appliances.

I mean... How often do you need a rice cooker or egg cooker? It doesn't HAVE to be on the kitchen counter all the time, so it gets relegated to the laundry room counter and then gets a winter coat or old book bag tossed on top. That's how we roll...

So... the room got cleaned up and cleared out. It looks good! But I still won't take a picture of it for you. Let's just say, it will never be featured in the Martha Stewart mag for a makeover...

Meri went back to take some towels in and came back stunned. "Mom!! Did we ALWAYS have a sink in there?"

She is eleven.

My new daughter-in-law ran back to see what Meri was so shocked about and came back just as stunned. "I didn't know there was a sink in there either!"

So yeah.. Apparently the housework neglect has gone on for a while and I can't just blame the wedding planning.