Not much tackling happened around here this week. Little and I spent most of the week fighting and recovering from a yucky stomach bug. So, I tackled an unusually large amount of laundry and disinfecting the bathrooms. Sounds fun, huh? Sometimes you just have to do what is needed.
We’ll see what the next week holds in the Tackles department. Happy tackling!
At the moment I should be tackling sleep, but, alas, pregnancy insomnia strikes again and here I sit typing a blog post instead. It seems there is no rest for the pregnant and weary.
My big tackle for this week has been cleaning the inside of my refrigerator. It is truly amazing (and pretty gross) the amount of gunk and funk that can accumulate on fridge shelves and walls over a period of time. So Thursday I set to work washing shelves and those little door compartment thingies, wiping down the walls and door, and scrubbing underneath the bottom drawers. Not a fun job, but definitely one that needed to be done. And now my fridge is nice and clean; we’ll see how long it stays that way.
I also dusted (there’s that word again) the inside of our TV cabinet. Because we have a low-sitting cabinet the doors have child-safety locks on them and I just don’t think about cleaning in there. Needless to say, it had become quite dusty over the last several months.
And, I’m still at work on the magazine pile; it is slowly dwindling. I think I’m down to 5 or 6 issues, but I’ve focused most of my reading time this week on The Birth Book in preparation for Boo’s arrival.
What is to come this week? I’m not sure. Matt has been on me the last few weeks about doing too much, so I’ll probably try to take it a little easier on the “extra” housework. We have company (my SIL and her family) coming this weekend, so I will definitely get the cleaning basics done. Other than that, there are a few projects that I’d like to (or need to) get done before baby comes. And today, I must finish my Bible Study before I go to class tomorrow morning.
Good luck with your tackles!
To those of you who stopped by and commented last week on Tackle it Tuesday: Welcome and thanks for visiting; I hope to see you again! I apologize for not making the rounds last week, life got in the way and I didn’t get to visit the other participants; I’ll try to do better this week.
And now on to our tackles…
The biggest thing accomplished in our house this week was that Matt finished painting the trim in Boo’s room. Yay! Now we can begin the decorating/furniture placement phase of this operation. Before and after pictures will be posted at some point.
For my part, I’ve made a dent in the tackles I set out to accomplish and conquered a couple of other things. First, the magazines…
This is what my stack looked like when I started. I’m not caught up yet, but I’ve reduced the stack size by approximately half. The remaining half will go on my tackle list for next week.
From my housekeeping/nesting list I dusted the bookshelves and wiped down the baseboards and walls in the living room. Because I’m not a very thorough duster, the shelves were probably a bigger job than they should have been. It does feel good to have these two things accomplished, though.
The plan for next week includes cleaning the fridge (I’ve been procrastinating a bit on this one), the living room wipe down/dusting (still lack upper moldings and tops of doors as well as the inside of the television cabinet), and completing the magazine job.
Good luck with your tackling!
Saturday was quite a day around here for household tackles; I think Matt might be nesting, too. On Saturday he hung new blinds in the living room and Little’s room (something we’ve been intending to do since we moved into the house almost 2 years ago). He also got started on the trim painting that needs to be done in Boo’s room before we can hang his blinds and finish the nursery. We also put several new things on the walls in the living room and kitchen eating area and moved several other decor pieces around in the living room; as Matt said, it looks like we actually live here now.
Yesterday I worked on the deep cleaning that I wanted to get done in the kitchen and eating area. I only lack cleaning the refrigerator shelves, etc to be finished in there. Then I will move on to the things I want to get done in the living room. I also got my kitchen junk drawer cleaned out and organized last week – for some reason it makes me feel really good to have accomplished that small task.
So our tackles this week haven’t been real exciting or worthy of before and after pictures, but they are things marked off the to-do list. My goals for the week to come: clean the fridge, dust the books/bookshelves in the living room (actually taking the books off the shelves to clean for a change), and conquer the stack of back-issues of my magazines residing on the bedroom bookshelves.
Happy Tackling!
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