Cleaning and Planning

Is this not the most cloudy spring on your human record?  Perhaps it is because I'm so sensitive to dark and gloomy weather.  The sun comes out to tease me for about ten minutes and then it is gone again behind this sea of cloudy down.   Ugh.  Each week I think it will get better the next week and then I look at the extended weather forecast.  Rain.....clouds...... and a peek of sun for as many days as I care to think about.  It used to be I went to work each day and the weather didn't affect me much.  Once I got in the school, I forgot all about the weather.  Perhaps I have too much time on my hands.

I spent the day redding things up as the Amish say.  I dusted and found little pockets of yucky dirt that I took the time to clean up.  It's funny how one can miss things that are clearly in need of cleaning.  I took the bedroom phone into the light and was shocked at the DIRT between the buttons.  I attacked that thing with a vengence and now have the cleanest phone around and probably one that is germfree too.  Clorox wipes did the trick.  I clean the phone in the kitchen regularly but kind of looked over the one in the bedroom.  I suppose I should check the one in the family room, too.  I've read that germs also breed on a computer keyboard.  I try to keep that in check as well.  Ken thinks I'm nuts but it feels good to know those places are clean.

Scarlen was home most of the day so she did the laundry.........Ken vacuumed, so together we are Friday clean again.

Kendra, Craig and Emerson are coming to De Motte tomorrow.  John called and he and Kim and five kids will drive down Sunday after his morning duties at their church.  Grandpa and Grandma, Scarlen and Isaiah, and Ken and I will all be at Lauri's for lunch.  Lauri has planned a menu designed for the guys to do the grillingand the oven to bake the potatoes.  There will be six mothers there so we choose not to work all day on our day of honor.

Happy Mother's Day weekend to each of you who are blessed to be mothers.  Is there a better joy in the world?