Husband Post!
Hailey wrote yesterday about how she’s away for the weekend at a craft retreat and today is our one full day at home without her. Nothing I haven’t done before. I like being able to manage all the kids on my own for at least a weekend. I feel like that an important thing to keep in mind for me as we have a more than average number of kids.
So while this was not our smoothest morning, we still managed to make it enjoyable and productive. The kids and I all woke up for breakfast around the same time and even Wavy enjoyed some cheerios with us.
Pretty quick after breakfast I set Wavy up in the living room with some toys and her baby gym and while the other kids ran circles around her, I grabbed the big vacuum from the basement and started vacuuming all the bedrooms and staircases. Just as I was finishing up the last set of stairs Laela got my attention with our smaller vacuum in hand and asked if she could vacuum the hard floors. As quick as I could say ‘Sure! That’d be so helpful, Sweetie!’, Rowan took her place with our carpet sweeper in hand asking if he could clean the living room rug. I was so pumped so see them volunteering to help that it motivated me to keep going.
I put on some music we recently purchased that the kids love and I started cleaning the main bathroom. Before I had even pulled out the lysol wipes I had Rowan and Dekker both asking what they could help with, and Laela was only a minute or two behind them. So, I set them all to work wiping down door handles, cabinet handles, light switches, chairs, cabinet fronts, and anything else we could think of that gets little kid sticky over time. They gave me a solid 30-40 minutes of cleaning!
Now our house smells like bleach, everything is back to its natural colour and theres about 50 wipes in our garbages. 😂
Solly and Wavy didn’t help at all but they were super cute and just added to the morale. 😊
Beyond that I also took some time to pull up the bottom track of our main bath shower doors. I could see mold starting to peek out from underneath it and its never sealed properly since I installed it before we moved in. Its always leaked a little water down the front of the tub during showers and when the kids splash.
So I cut the old silicone, pulled it up, cleaned up all the mold from under the track and put a thick new bead of silicone down underneath the track before reinstalling it.
No baths tonight! 😂
So thats been our day thus far. Hoping to keep it light and fun this afternoon. Lots of music and jumping around and yummy easy supper. Maybe macaroni tonight. 😍
Side note, if you haven’t heard this song yet, please go check it out. It was an instant dancey favourite in our house! It’s not as much about drinking as you’d think from the title. Don’t judge!