Years ago now, we came up with this name for “catching up” on housework or projects around the house. I don’t know how this would have gone over if we’d had boys first! I guess we’d have come up with some other name. But my boys, who came later on, don’t think anything of the name. Cinderella Saturday is a fact of life about 4 times a year because regardless of my best intentions, we always need a day to catch up around the house. It is a day that the whole family pitches in, we throw open the windows, turn on some music and tackle a list of areas that need attention.
Today the kitchen needed to be tackled. When the kitchen has everything in it, it’s hard to reach all the areas that need cleaning. In other words, it’s kind of tight in there. Plus, there comes a time when really the only thing that will take care of the table and chairs is the hose. This was not true before we had kids (we vaguely remember this short time period) but we now hold the belief that kitchens should come equipped with a shower head so periodically (like after every meal) it can just be sprayed down. It would be so much simpler. As it stands, we dragged everything outside and the kids used rags, scrub brushes and the hose to work the grime out of the kitchen furniture.
The kids had a pretty good time and one of them got super soaked “on purpose”. As long as they’re helping each other and having a good time in the process then a little extra laundry won’t bother me in the least. I love days when everyone happily works together.
Inside, the kitchen looked spacious… almost… and we scrubbed walls, floors and windows. I love my new windows that we have slowly had installed throughout the house. Cleaning them is so easy! The process as a whole took several hours. It is nice to have a cleaner area, especially as the cold season approaches and we spend so much more time indoors.
With the kitchen emptied, lunch had to be eaten outside. Thank goodness! An entire glass of milk got spilled immediately by this young lady and our cat, Cindi, came to her rescue. She IS our kitchen clean-up cat who takes her job very seriously. The spilled milk illustrates just exactly WHY we might think our inside table needs a hose every so often!
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