30 Day Cleaning Challenge - Day 3

Cleaned for: 15 min

Living Cleaner Rule of the Day: Rinse your dishes and put them in the dishwasher!!! This should be a no brainer...

Normally I wouldn't have done any cleaning today. I spent the day at my moms house and was not in the mood to clean this morning, I got up late today and was tired and just in a poor mood. So I left the house and figured I would worry about cleaning later. So when I got home tonight, I knew that if I didn't clean tonight, I would have to tell you all about it and give you a poor excuse for not doing it. This motivated me to do at least 15 min of cleaning. But once I got started I was able to clean for a longer amount of time. I even enjoyed it... Tonight I picked up a little in my bedroom and then went to the kitchen and emptied the dishwasher, loaded it, forgot to start it :) better go do that now. And then decided to clean my stove because I just got a new stove cleaner and stove scrubbers. I have an electric stove, which I didn't know how to clean, so I've just been wiping them down and over this past year, it's gotten food and grease just burnt onto, so it will take a while to get all that off. But the cleaner seemed to work okay, if anybody has any experience with this.. please let me know.

My Stove, after I cleaned it....

30 Day Cleaning Challenge - Day 2

Cleaned for: 15 min

Living Cleaner rule of the day: Take Care of Paperwork as it's brought into the house. If I need to keep a coupon for some reason, I should either stick it in my file cabinet or purse. I also have tons of Papers that I carry around with me: Menu's, Calendars, Craft instructions, etc. I need to either stick them in the file cabinet or hole punch them and stick them in a notebook.

So, I only cleaned for 15 min today, and I focused on the area that you were going to see in the picture. :) How's that for motivation...hehe... It still looks messy to me, but it's livable, and that is important. See you all tomorrow... 2 days down, 28 more to go....

I love bright spring colors!!

I know it's fall, and I'm starting to enjoy fall more, but I love spring!! I love bright cheerful colors, they just make me happy. I saw this couch today at PB Teen, not even sure how I ended up there, but I love it!!! I Don't like the yellow walls, but I love the pretty blue couch. I then went to look at the rugs, because I would love to have a rug for my hard wood floors, so Anthony can enjoy tummy time in my living room. Take a look at these, I like almost all of them. Tell me which one you like the best: Pottery Barn Teen Rugs

Aren't sleeping babies adorable?

I love taking pictures of Anthony sleeping, but it doesn't do justice to how cute they are when they are sleeping. I just love his chunky cheeks, his chubby rolls, the way his is sprawled out, and the sound of his breathing/snoring.

And in case anybody was wondering, don't try washing your baby with bubble bath, it will drip down his head and leave red marks. He didn't mind, but we felt really bad looking at the red streaks he had on his face. I guess bubble bath is not the same as baby wash... who knew...

My Handmade Diaper Bag

Here is my diaper bag, I used a how to make your own diaper bag pattern that I found online. I had to do some calculations... and I also got some tips from: sewchristine. I used batting in between the outer layer and the liner, but if I did it again, I'd probably use interfacing to make it stiffer. I also forgot to sew the straps while I was sewing the layers together, so I had to do those afterwards (as you can see in the bottom picture)

Here is the inside of the bag, I made a pocket for my IPhone, keys, and a bottle or sippy cup. You can barely see that pocket on the right side of the bag. I put that on the inside, so that it wouldn't look like a diaper bag, but more like a purse. Pretty cool, huh? I really enjoyed making this and was able to do it in about 3 evenings...

30 Day Cleaning Challenge - Day 1

Cleaned for: 45 min

Living Cleaner rule of the day: Clean off the entire table before each meal (and that doesn't mean move the items to another counter)

I didn't clean for as long as I felt like I should've, but I did spend time picking up. I completed the bathroom and the hallway and made progress in the living room, dining room, and kitchen. Here is my messy living room at the end of the day. Hopefully I'll be able to show you a much cleaner living room tomorrow. I felt like I was fighting an uphill battle because Alissa wouldn't let me put away any of her toys. She would gasp in shock anytime I tried to put her purses in her toy drawer.

These are the toys that she's been playing with and leaving all over the place.

30 day Cleaning Challenge

Ok, so I'm going to start my cleaning challenge today. My house isn't quite spotless, but if I clean daily, it will get cleaner everyday. Each day I will post a new cleaning rule and tell you a little about my cleaning adventures. I was going to post pictures about my cleaning out stuff first, but my camera died, so I have to recharge the battery before I can put the pictures on my computer, so you'll have to wait for that. Here I go for Day 1 - as soon as I'm finished I will write the post for Day 1