So I’m on the second week of the 31 days to clean challenge and I’m doing pretty well, I think.  It’s basically just having a scheduled routine of the “every-once-in-awhile” chores.

This last week, I have:

Written and framed my mission statement,

cleaned my refrigerator

(isn’t it beautiful?! It’s okay to be jealous.),

Wiped down all of my cabinets

(which is quite a chore because we are still under construction over here!)

Cleaned the oven; which hadn’t been done since Thanksgiving,

Washed the kitchen windows,

(Picture me in a cute little maid’s uniform and high heels. What? Isn’t that how you do it??)

And organized all of my kitchen drawers.

 If you have been doing the challenge as well, you’re probably thinking that I have missed something…ya ya, I didn’t organize my cabinets and pantry…before you freak out, let give you my list of excuses:

I am still waiting on my pantry cabinets to come in, so my regular kitchen cabinets our housing EVERYTHING until they get here; at which point I will then do Day 6 and 7.

(That was one of the longest run-on sentences I have ever written!)

Anyway,

I’m still working on the WHY to cleaning…after everything else I have to do in a day, deep down cleaning just isn’t a priority.

In the book, it suggests asking your family what it is that you do (cleaning-wise) that they appreciate the most. One of my girls said,”When you clean my room”

My other daughter said,”When you do the chicken chores.” 

Well, duuuuuh! Of course that’s what they would say!

Anyone loves it when their work gets done for them…Oh well, I still have 24 more days to figure out the “Why”

And just to show you a little bit of the construction going on over here....my new floor!! My husband and dad did a great job installing (Even though apparently I picked the most difficult flooring in the world to put in!) and it looks great!

Hard At Work

Unsealed but still, I HAVE A FLOOR!

 

Have a great rest of the weekend, everyone! I’ll see you back here tomorrow!

DAY 1

Today is the first day of the 31 Days to Clean book. 
The challenge today was to figure out WHY I want a clean house. Those of you who know me have probably heard me say that "I want my house to be clean enough so that you need to take off your shoes but dirty enough that you will stay awhile."

I love all of my friends and family dearly, So in my mission statement (which was our challenge for today)

I tried to reflect more of how I want our house to feel. Not so much how I intend to clean it.  

Our home should be a comfortable haven.
A place where visitors are welcome
And family is loved.
Not messy or cluttered
But filled with memories
And treasures of our times spent together.
Start each day with a prayer that
Our home will bring honor and glory to His name!

So what will your mission statement say??

Why do you clean and take care of your home??

31 Days To Clean

A friend posted this book title on her facebook today and you know me, I like things clean...So I checked it out. 

Watch the video and let me know what you think!

I love that she relates cleaning to the Proverbs 31 woman, in that, we are to be "Keepers" of our homes!

Being a good homemaker revolves so much around WHY we clean and not so much in the actual "Cleanliness of our homes" Because let's face it, I have four kids and we live on a farm!  :)

She gives a sample of the first page on her website. I plan to start on May 1st. So that gives me the rest of this week to  stock up on cleaning supplies.

So we are going to go back to grade school on this one. " I'll do it; if you do it too" 

http://31daystoclean.com/

So,

Are You In??