When I clean my house

Today I am thankful for a clean house!

-----

I spent some time today cleaning my house in preparation for having Book Club here.

Here's a little news flash about me:

I'm not that clean.

Oh, I'm pretty organized.

And I don't like clutter.

But I don't like to clean

So things around here can get kinda dusty and grimy at times.

I'm not a pig (which seems to be the normal state for some of my children)

but I'm not homemaker of the year either.

But when I clean my house I am always amazed at just how easily it is accomplished.

It doesn't take that long.

And it makes me so darn happy to be in a clean house!

I always wonder why I don't keep it this way...

But next thing I know, it is back to its usual state of 

not-quite-clean

So let's take a tour of my fabulously and recently cleaned house, shall we?

First the living room.

Here is the side table with a few things set up for the Book Club refreshments.

I went to Target with Carter and he talked me into buying these little hedgehogs.  I'm so glad he did because they are just too darn cute!

The Family room

Wow.

All dusted, vacuumed and decluttered!!

Since we pretty much lived in here during the power outage, this room was in sad shape.

The entryway was a big mess of leaves, twigs and all the other junk people bring in on their feet.

Now it is clean as a whistle.

Dining room:

I've been sewing in here so it had some issues with thread bits and fabric pieces.

I've got my fall decorations out still...until after Thanksgiving.

But I've started thinking about what I want to do for my Christmas changes!

This little desk area is usually a cluttered disaster with mail and papers galore.

Why oh why can't I keep it clean?

It's my nemesis.

After cleaning I even managed to make some homemade zucchini bread mini muffins.

So scrumdiliumptious!

And finally, here I am with my "cleaning hair"

That means, hop out of the shower and stick it up in a clip.

Curly.

Sometimes I end up looking like Medusa by the end of the cleaning session!

Ignore the time on the post, this is my "thankful" post for 11/10.  I just didn't manage to get it posted until after Book Club so it is now very late!

Book Club was fun, as usual.