A whole new level of pointless
There’s GOT to be an award out there somewhere for parents who have to clean vomit and shit off carseats, carpet, bedsheets and cushions two days straight.
Lokes and I used up a whole bottle of Oxy Clean and Febreeze (Extra Strong) each, just cleaning up after our three-year old, who’s managed to contract a cough, a cold, some sort of flu and now finally a stomach bug in all of three weeks. To think she used to be the strong one, the one who never got sick when everyone else did. Now Raeven has emerged victorious, remaining stoically unscathed as the rest of us hacked, sneezed, groaned and moaned through the last three weeks.
Nothing like kindergarten to toughen that immune system right up.
Remember how I used to get carried away with the toilet cleaning? Well, while I was busy scrubbing a trail of soiled carpet yesterday morning, I decided, what the heck, to spring clean the girls’ entire play room.
Here’s the before:
And the after:
In the words of my wise friend Mathilda, here’s what we’ve been reduced to doing: Taking before and after shots of housework so we can blog about it.
Are you beaming with pride, mom?
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April 15th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
hahhahaa I think it’s a woman thing though. I also start getting carried away with “reorganising” etc, D sometimes wonders if he’s going to come home to find the house completely rearranged.
Fidgety.. LOL looks nice though dear
Haha I was like, wtf is the diff??? I actually spent two hours sorting all those teeny, tiny toys, grumbling the whole time and cursing the manufacturers. But it was worth it coz Rae woke up this morning, saw the “new” arrangement and thanked me profusely. She was delirious to find all her old stuff. A wonder what a few hours of spring cleaning can do.
April 15th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
in my case, it is mainly vomit and urine (i guess this is a boys thing). i use clorox freshcare and the traditional method of burning everything under the sun.
Can’t believe I’m saying this, but I prefer vomit over watery shit anytime. I fell asleep just now at 7.30pm because I’m so exhausted from lack of sleep taking care of a whiny, sobby three-year old who’s leaking all over the place. To think we’d spent three days before potty-training and now it’s all, literally, gone south.