It's another Manic Monday and the kids are beyond exhausted from a weekend of late night excitement. Drive in movies, yard work, splash pads, concerts, and going out to dinner. Today's mania is filled with mounds of swim related laundry that accumulated over the past week. Swim suits, hats, swim diapers, towels, towels and more towels, and more swim suits. Also my floors have not been properly mopped in months. Ever since my steam mop decided to take an early retirement (after less than a years work- mind you), my floors have been haphazardly swifferred. And the swiffer just aint cuttin it. So today I hand mopped all hard surfaces of my house and I feel much, much happier.
Kday worked tirelessly last week to put in a sand box and washing station for the kids. His hard work was much appreciated and the kids have been spending hours upon hours outside in their new haven. Despite the fantastic washing station and my attempts to keep the sand out of the house, their little beds seem to still be filling with remnants of the fun they had outside. Those darling little toes of theirs seem to hide millions of grains of sand, only to be emptied while they slumber and dream of their next excursion.
The biggest "issue" that the sandbox has created... I can't go to bed at night unless the sand toys have been rinsed and dried and the sand must be raked. Prepared for good clean fun the next day. Beyond wrong, I know. But I just can't stand laying in my bed, looking out my window and wondering if the sand has been left in messy piles or unleveled across the box. So I rinse and rake and in the morning we start over.
And we're all happy. Thanks for the
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It can be a Zen garden if you'd like... Makes for sweet jumps for my monstertrucks and Hotwheel cars.
Love, love, love the post, my darling little compulsive child :) Since Dad bought me that super steamer for my floors, you can have my other floor steamer- it doesn't work perfectly, but it sure beats getting down on your hands and knees. Looked like you were having fun with Kristy today.
Your backyard looks wonderful! Although we put in sprinklers and new sod two years ago our backyard looks kind of hashed because I wanted a second dog. Kind of a bad combination. Our first dog is a golden retriever/lab mix and loves to fetch frisbees so my husband indulges her but she runs down the same path a million times in a day. So we have all this beautiful grass on either side of the path she made. We have been so busy this summer that we haven't had time to reseed the lawn and spots where she has trampled the grass in to non existence. I also wanted to say that you might want to put a tarp or cover over the sandbox at night because you never know when someone's outdoor cat might lurk into your backyard and decide that the sandbox looks like a great litter box, and they might just decide to keep coming back. Maybe you might not have this problem but I generally like to let my friends know this because sometimes they don't think about it. I'm sure you know that cat crap can carry toxoplasmosis and that humans can get really sick if they come in contact with it, but I just like to make people aware of these things.
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