Cleaning, cleaning and more cleaning!

Tina & Julie at the Crop!

I started cleaning and organizing my office/scrapbook room at the store Friday night during the crop. I also finally started to organize my photos and putting them into the Pioneer "3 up" photo albums I bought per Stacy Julian's suggestion. I was really surprised to find out that I am more "caught" up then I thought. I have scrapped all of 2002, 2003 and 2004 - so any double or left over photos I had from those years were put into a Cropper Hopper photo box to be used for "themed" layouts or mini books I may feel inspired to create in the future. I also threw away a lot of "stuff!" It felt good to get this process started. I did not do an scrapbooking, BUT my buddy Shawna made me the cutest page of our dog Charlie when he was a puppy. It turned out great and I can't wait to put it in my "all about us; our pets" album!

My organizing in process!

Since my parents are coming on Tuesday, I had to get going on cleaning our house and yard. I just about passed out in the shower from all of the cleaner fumes and the scrubbing. I hate our water here in Moscow, it is so full of minerals. Turns the shower walls orange! I spent an hour in the shower and it still is not as clean as I would like!

The boys worked on the outside - making a couple of trips to the dump and cleaning up the backyard. I am embarrassed to say that we still had our Christmas tree in the back corner of the yard! We don't have a truck, just the Toyota Sequoia so they had to work hard to get all the crap to fit in the back.

I hired Katrina, Shawna's daughter, to come over and help me on the inside. She is such a hard worker! We got the dining room and kitchen cleaned and all of the cabinets organized. She already cleans once a week for London and I hired her to come back and help me clean twice a month! She did an amazing job - so much better than the house cleaners I have hired in the past.


Today I plan to get more flowers from Otto's' Produce. They have the most beautiful baskets and pots at really great prices. I got a huge hanging basket for $21.00! I LOVE Otto's. If you have never been, you need to go. As a treat I picked up a pint of blueberries and a pint of blackberries with two pints of Ferdinand's ice cream. Oh was that good! I'm going to take Shawna there today with our cameras to take some photos of all the fruit and flowers. (it will make a great layout for my "places we go" album.


I'm off to make a grocery list and pick Shawna up -