3 posts tagged “cleaning”

We decided to stay another night at Nana and Poppy's, so we came home this morning...to find that the power was out and would be out for several more hours. (No clue why it stayed off for hours..the weather was rainy and that was about it!)

Thankfully most of Gavin's toys are battery operated, and he could care less about TV- so he was fine. I just wanted to take a nap when he took one, so I didn't even mind the power being off until I woke up at 1 and it was still off and I was starving.

We decided to go to the BX (hoping they had power) and got Subway for lunch, ran into Elizabeth and we caught up on everything that had been going on since I'd been gone. Then I wrangled Gav in the BX and Commissary. He was too grouchy to make it to the milk and cheese (main reason we went in there!) but I'll just pick it up tomorrow when we FINALLY pick up Andrew at the airport. I'm a bit disappointed though, because we'll be missing one of our last church services.

I still can't believe that everything will be packed up this time next week. My poor house will be empty (or full of boxes- I still don't think the movers can pack and pick up in the same day- but more power to them if they think they can!).

I'm thinking I'll have to do a montage farewell to the house...It was our first house together, and its got a million memories. I'll recap the rest of the Nana visit later- I'm halfway through cleaning out the pantry and refrigerator and since I'm on a roll- I want to get it done tonight!

If you've ever wondered how diapers are so absorbent, I can enlighten you. There are MILLIONS of tiny little gel things that absorb everything, whisking it away from baby's bum so they stay dry. And they are almost impossible to clean up after your darling dogs find one in the trash and "kill" it in the living room.

I heard a weird sound in the living room, turned on the light and Gromit is shaking the living daylights out of a diaper. All over the carpet, the couch, the floor, the toys, the blinds, the tv, you name it..there were MILLIONS of  tiny balls of pee gel EVERYWHERE! I couldn't do anything but stammer.."HOW am I going to clean this up?" as I threw both dogs out the back door angrily. It took forever to clean up, and I'm sure tomorrow morning I'll find more that I missed...

I wasn't kidding when I said everything exciting happens when Andrew's gone.

It finally stopped raining a few hours ago. It rained most of the night, and all morning. Lots of rain, buckets of rain, inches and inches it seems of rain. I came home from a Mom Mentor group at church this morning to find my front flower bed underwater. Snapdragons up to their little necks in water. (Can you tell I have poor drainage in that bed? But won't do anything about it since we'll be gone in a few months!)

I bailed out part of the bed with a cup (I'm sure the neighbors thought I was crazy since it was still pouring down rain while I was doing this...leaning out from under the overhang trying not to get soaked. Then I discovered a space in the landscaping edge where I could "let" out all the water almost like pulling the stopper out of the bathtub. Same effect, after I removed a few pieces of mulch and rocks...all the water in the bed, whooshed out and down the driveway.

Now the sun is blazing down on the poor half-drowned flowers (that had just recovered from last weekend's downpour). I hope it helps to dry it out soon!

I should be cleaning and tidying the house for tomorrow. Since tomorrow Andrew's family will converge upon the house for graduation festivities. And then my parents are watching Gavin and our niece Lauren while we, and Andrew's parents and sister go to the graduation dinner that promises to be probably another long-winded speech punctuated by food and being out past my bedtime (you'll understand once you have a baby...when they go to bed, it's a good idea to just pack it up for the day too!) after an already long-winded day of breakfast at 8 (I'm never presentable to the world by 8!), graduation at 10, and then Andrew getting his long-anticipated wings at 11. Then there's a million tours of the squadron and looking at planes and all that fun stuff, where I might be tempted to sneak home and take a nap :)

So I should be preparing for all of this, but I've been enjoying a quiet couple of hours, since it's 4:35 and Gav laid down for a nap at 2. I ate my lunch in peace, I read a magazine, I sort of watched some odd movie with Harrison Ford involving Amish people, and I'm debating about starting dinner even though Andrew flies tonight and won't be home till late. I think I'm just going to enjoy my last few minutes of quiet time where I'm not being tugged on, or squealed at...and do nothing.