Day 2 - cleaning!

Alright, I know that I titled this Blog as Summer Adventures, and we will have them, I promise. However, today was set aside for cleaning. Actually in my original plans, today was to be a day of complete rest (like that can happen with Troy and Danica around) and tomorrow and Friday were to be cleaning days. Well, Troy's friend and his mom asked us to go to Alabama Adventure tomorrow, so things change.

Like I said, today was a cleaning day and I am still not finished with what I wanted to get done. When I say cleaning, I mean scrubbing, re-organizing, pitching, etc. I got my bedroom done. It seems that during the school year, my bedroom becomes the catch-all for, well, everything. Smoehow, Troy's picture albums ended up in my room along, along with Danica's plastic turtle and butterfly. Behind my dresser, I found stickers, missing socks and 3 bookmarks, not to mention the dead crickets from when "Little Guy" resided on my dresser. Little Guy, for those of you who don't know, is a lizard that Richard found in our basement in November. Apparently, we couln't just let him go in November because he would not have had enough time to find a place to hibernate. He stayed on my dresser in a 10 gallon aquarium until Easter Sunday, when I set him free. If it was up to Richard, Troy and Danica, he would have stayed on my dresser, but mommy has 5 votes and can over-rule anything. 2 months later, I am still finding dead crickets. Granted, I did not move the dresser until now (it is rather heavy).
Other than that and the monsterous Dust Bunny from under my bed that attacked me and I had to beat with the broom, cleaning my room went well. Yes, it was slow, but I did great at keeping at the cleaning and not getting distracted with the mess in the rest of the house. Everytime I went into the kitchen, I had to will myself to ignore it and keep at the other cleaning.
For those of you who have hardwood floors, you MUST get a steam mop. They are wonderful and save so much time!
The only other room (besides the bathrooms) that I tackled was Troy's room. That kid saves EVERYTHING. I think that if I didn't go through his room every 6 months or so, I would lose him in the mounds of stuff. I fear I will see him on Hoarders someday. Example, he still had Valentine's Day cards that HE signed and were extras. Not to mention all of the cards from his class, church and scouts. Let's just say that they are gone now. I also found 2 gallon sized bags with pencils, all sharpened and most less than 3 inches long. This is in addition to the 50 or so pencils that I found that are not yet sharpened. Like I said... Hoarder.
Right now, Troy and Danica are playing with balloons. Not just regular bloons, mind you, these are about 5 feet in length and hot dog shaped. This was something else that was found in Troy's room. Richard insists he pulled a muscle blowing them up. I know that he wished I would have pitched them, but oh well.
NOw for the adventure of the day...Richard came in and said, "There's a dog in our yard. YOu should go see it". I did and kinds recognized the dog as our neighbor's (well, a neighbor a few houses down). Now I had watched the neighbor chase this dog a few days ago, and it was funny (for me), so I thought that I would have to do the same thing. Nope, the dog came right to me when I yelled "Here puppy"(maybe I can have a new career as a dog whisperer). He was very wiggly and gave lots of kisses as I was taking him home (small dog and very light). That is until I got near his home, then all movement stopped. He really seemed scared about going home. I felt bad, but since we have 2 dogs already, another would have been too much and, as Danica would say, "Stealing is bad". Walter, the owner, said that he "forgot" that the dog got out. Maybe he didn't wnat Lucky to come back, who knows. According to Walter, Lucky escapes a lot. Maybe, I'll let him play with Tink and Onyx for a little while next time.
So, it wasn't much of an adventure, but oh well. It is time to log off since it is thundering and the computer flickered just a minute ago. Maybe today's adventure is yet to come in the form of a storm. I'll let you know tomorrow.
Day 3 - Alabama Adventure!!!!! For those who don't know, it is an amusement park and water park in one! Troy can't wait and Danica doesn't remember much of it. We're going to have a great time!