Well this was the month that I decided to keep up with my cleaning schedule in my homemaker’s journal, and I haven’t done so well. The in laws were in town and camped out in the living room on Friday and Sunday, so I got nothing done. Every day I seem to be playing catch up with yesterday’s chores. Not a good start to my month.

Today I saw on the list that I was going to be cleaning the stairway. An easy area to clean, and I’ll feel like I got something done. Thade was playing quietly while Dylan took a nap, and I saw the perfect opportunity to clean. I gathered my supplies and decided to dust and Pledge the spindles first,before Swiffer vacuuming the stairs. I started at the top of the stairs, sprayed my Pledge, grabbed my cleaning cloth, and got a gigantic splinter in my finger on the very first spindle that I cleaned. I pulled the gigantic splinter out of my finger and proceeded to clean. I finally got the stairway cleaned and vacuumed without further injury. Tomorrow I am supposed to clean my husband’s home office, but I don’t know if I’m quite brave enough to tackle that mess.