Most of my day has been spent running errands and doing early spring cleaning. I certainly haven’t been looking FORWARD to cleaning this deeply, but it needs to be done, and it will make coming home from Maryland next week much more enjoyable. For about three seconds, I imagined using the Periodic Table of Cleaning. But then I smacked my forehead and things grew clearer.
I will admit to abnormal sniffing as the lemony smell wafting about is addictive and probably also killing me slowly as it fills my lungs. Two funny things that occured are these: Each time I spritzed with Febreeze today, Drew would scream. He didn’t mind the bottle being near him – but he FREAKED out whenever I would spray it. And then each time I used the vacuum, he would scream again at the top of his lungs and I’d look at him and see rivers of tears pouring down his cheeks and splashing onto his belly (because I didn’t put any clothes on him at all today). This grew old quickly as I had much to vacuum and wasn’t enjoying making him wail. So, I brought him into the living room, sat him in his high chair and vacuumed all around him. I figured if he was scared of it, he might as well know what it looked like up close (something to remember when dealing with any type of monster).
Believe it or not, it worked! He was in awe of the vacuum cleaner. I even had to bring the vacuum cleaner over to sit beside us as we ate lunch. Drew has a new friend! And the house is about 80% deep cleaned!