Before Dan had his surgery for about a week I had done something I had not done before. I was making an effort to make sure the house was cleaned before he got home. I am sure I run my day much different than most. You see I am a procrastinator. Why do something now, what I can do later. That's my motto. Sad, I know, but it's just me.
This is how I run the Pingel home during the day. We eat, play, sleep, eat, play, sleep. Noah gets home around 4. Dan gets home around 4:30. When Noah gets home if the kids are awake I send them all to the play room. Noah does a wonderful job of helping me with the babies. He knows what they can and can't play with and makes sure Maxx doesn't get anything that he could choke on.
Through out the day I don't clean up any messes, unless something sticky gets dropped on the floor. I do clean off the kids after each meal. At 4 when Noah takes the kids to the play room to play, I in a frenzy, clean up our days messes. I sweep, vacuum, unload, load the dish washer and etc.
Since Dan had his surgery we are still trying to get into our regular routine. I think we have pretty much mastered it by now. So we will try to do things normal today.
The funny thing about me cleaning up everyday was that Noah had noticed and everyday he would ask me, "is anyone coming over"? I would reply, "no". After several days of this I asked him why he kept asking me. He said, "well mom, you are cleaning up everyday and you only clean when some one is coming over".
I am hoping to get back in the grove of cleaning up and making things nice before Dan gets home. Just one less thing he has to worry about.
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