Leaving my bed was difficult this morning – but if I wanted any sort of ‘weekend’ I knew the last of the chores had to be finished.

I’ve been cleaning since I got home Friday – which resulted in a wounded foot, me having to iron, and approximately 5 garbage bags full of things I was never going to throw away.

I’m still not done.

I’m not an unclean person – or an untidy one for that matter – I’m just not home long enough to prove otherwise to my satisfaction.

Couple that with the fact that I went from almost 2000 square feet plus a two car garage to about … 10 square feet and no garage, and you can see my dilemma.

So now there is a possibility that someone is coming to visit – I entered panic mode.

I actually asked my son’s girlfriend “What do you notice about the house?  How would you describe it?”

There were no wrong answers, and I was not going to be offended.  It is what it is.  The small home I live in now was definitely a ‘material’ step down, but it was what I could afford at the time and definitely a ‘happiness’ step UP.

“It’s … cozy, but can be messy.”

“Where?  Where can it be messy?”  I asked as I cut my eyes over to my son, who really should be helping more.

“The kitchen.”

She’s right.   First of all, the house is cozy.  People feel at home in my home.  I’ve heard ‘cozy’ before.  That’s good.

As for the kitchen.   Everyone has ‘that’ counter that keys, paperwork, mail, jackets get flung upon.  That happens at our place too – except, we don’t have counters.  So the dining room table we never sit at, is usually littered with such things.

As for the ‘laundry room’ that became the garage.  Holiday boxes, cleaning supplies, battery chargers, crock pots, computer monitors, computer towers – everything too large to be anywhere else, ended up there.

It really shouldn’t bother me – people who love me aren’t going to judge me by my home, but come on!  Even when you have relatives coming don’t you prepare by doing the crazy cleaning?

So crazy cleaning is still in progress.

Being at the laundromat almost feels like a vacation today.