The Abundant Wife

Welcome back to the 30-Day House Cleaning Challenge!  The assignments for this weekend were to clean out a closet or two, surface clean an extra room, or deep clean a bedroom.  I opted to go back to our home office and organize our two filing cabinets full of  paperwork.  If you remember from Project #10, […]

Thank you for joining me for the 30-Day House Cleaning Challenge!  After completing Project #2, I later realized that I had neglected the cabinets and drawers in our bathroom.  I also noted that others were washing their shower curtains (with a cup of white vinegar) and thought that looked like a worthwhile endeavor. So for […]

We’re 1/3 of our way through the 30-Day House Cleaning Challenge!  Yeah!  Today’s assignment was to deep clean the living room, but when I looked over the list of things to do, I realized I had done most of them Sunday night.  However, Brad was in Sacramento for training today, so I decided to surface […]

  Today I am exhausted, even with two cups of coffee to start my day.  Last night we had 40 people in our living room for Club.  They played a game called “Bigger-N-Better.”  Everyone divides into teams and then drives around town in their cars.  The idea is to start with something small and keep […]

Today’s project was to sweep and vacuum all the floors in your house.  Our house is a one-story house, with only 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.  So I decided to go ahead and do all of it.  (However, I did NOT mop!) Since I did this challenge all last week, there really wasn’t a lot […]

My husband is back from Mexico, so that means I have a camera again!  For Friday through Sunday (Projects #5-#7), I could choose one of the three projects.  I chose to surface-clean our living room late Sunday night.  The surfaces in our living room were a lot dirtier than I thought.  I feather-dusted the mantel, […]

Today’s project was Surface Cleaning An Extra Room in the House.  I chose our kids’ bedroom.  It’s raining outside, and we’ve all got colds so we’re all staying inside today.  As soon as I had the baby down for a nap in the Master Bedroom, I dumped out a giant pile of legos, turned on […]

Today I tackled Surface Cleaning our Master Bedroom.  I’ve got to say, the idea of cleaning a room in only 20 minutes is hard for me.  Of course my family knows that I can make any project take longer than it should.  Today’s project took me exactly one hour.  Thankfully the kids were busy with […]

So, it’s time to make a confession.  I do not clean my house very often.  I am very organized and everything has a place, but I am not good about cleaning.  I could use the excuse that I have three kids ages 3 and under, but I’ve never been good about cleaning so that excuse […]

Happy April Fools’ Day! Yes, I’m back at the computer, albeit rather reluctantly.  I’ve had a wonderful blogging sabbatical these last 4 months, (and a Facebook sabbatical for the last 6 1/2 weeks) and I have really been wrestling with whether or not I should continue blogging.  There are so many factors, but one of […]