Clean Up Days

I always take Thanksgiving week off!  I need a couple of catch up days going into the holiday season so I take the days before Thanksgiving and do some deep cleaning.  It seems to be an almost given that home schooling homes are not messy per se, but definitely not immaculate.  I think this was the hardest thing for me as I started home schooling.  When my oldest children were in school, I would send them off to school on Monday morning and clean all day.  Then I would sit down with a cold drink, some handwork and a TV show before they got home just to enjoy the clean house.  I have to say I really miss that!  The boys and I keep the house functioning, but the mess builds up as deep cleaning goes undone.  So today, I started in Joshua's room, he's the youngest and 11 and a pack rat!  Are you getting a picture?  I probably should have taken a picture.  I have company coming for Thanksgiving and some of their children are sleeping in there so we had to deep clean.  AAGGGHH!  Joshua and I spent 6 hours in there cleaning and dusting and getting rid of some of the accumulated trash - I mean treasures!  We took a big black trash bag full out of his room and it looks amazing now.  It won't last long though as his imagination starts to work to fill the space we just created, but it sure feels good today to have his room REALLY clean for a couple of hours.  Maybe, I should go in there with a cold drink, some handwork and a movie! :)