There is something about the breath of fresh spring air that whispers to me “clean your house”. Isn’t that funny, I think most people do some type of spring cleaning. For me it varies from year to year on how much and what I do. Last year I did no spring cleaning, I had a very small baby and just getting the daily dishes done was chore enough for me! I had also just done a major cleaning in January (with the help of my wonderful husband and two brothers) right before the baby came.

There is just something about finally opening the windows after being hunkered down all winter that makes me want to knock down the cob webs and scrub the base boards.

So this week I started my project of spring cleaning my house! I have decided that I am not going to rush myself, I don’t want to try to do it all in one or two exhausting days, I am going to do it slowly in the next few weeks. That way I won’t skimp trying to get it done. I have first started on the kitchen, it gets a lot of traffic, so I felt it needed it the most. So far I have scrubbed all the base boards with a small scrub brush, to get the yuckies out of the tiny corners. It is amazing to me how just the act of cleaning base boards makes the whole room look better. I washed the wall in the dining area, a one year old in a high chair surely does a number on walls. Four active little girls, makes for a lot of dirty finger prints. I washed my table really, really well with wood soap. I got all the cracks and little hidden places. I really need to oil and wax it, a lot of the wood doesn’t have a finish on it, but I will save that for another day. I washed the back patio door and dusted the walls and ceiling. I did the base boards in the kitchen too, washing the cabinet doors as I went a long, I got the corners with a tooth brush, I didn’t realise how dirty they get until my eyes were right there! I also did under the stove. That was my first days work, and the kitchen already looks so much nicer and cleaner. I swear it is starting to sparkle.

Yesterday I worked on my kitchen cabinets, the top ones anyway. I took everything out a cabinet at a time and wiped the shelves out and rearranged things a bit. I packed away all my baby bottles (cry) to give to the next person in my family that has their first baby. I threw away or gave away a lot of dishes that I haven’t’ used and got rid of a lot of little odds and ends. I wiped off the fronts of the cabinets, they weren’t too dirty, mainly dusty, the wood soap gave them all a nice sheen.

Today I took a break from the kitchen, the rest of the house was feeling neglected! On Monday I will be back working on the kitchen. I will be cleaning out the lower cabinets.

I love the feeling of a clean house.