Cleaning for Charlotte

I don't even know why.  Charlotte is going to be here tomorrow, so I've been picking up, doing extra vacuuming, and mopping.  Thing is, I don't go to this 'trouble' for adult visitors. . . people who might actually notice and care about disorder and germs.  

She's not a crawling baby, and she's never been too bad about putting things in her mouth.  And in her opinion, the more dog toys left scattered around, the better.

But for some reason, I want things cleaner when she's gonna be here, and I've gotta go now so I can fold laundry.  I hope somehow, some day she appreciates this.  

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A Productive Day! Yea!!

We cleaned out the fridge, the pantry, the spice 

cabinet.  Returned something to Target and picked up some little organizing dividers and cleaned out the utensil drawer. 

Washed vegs and fruits;  chopped up onions, celery, carrots.

 Cooked two whole chickens in the crock pot (separately)  pulled the meat, and froze 2-cup size servings.  Strained and froze the broth - except what we used to boil potatoes in for dinner.  

Loaded and emptied the dishwasher twice.

Vacuumed and mopped the atrium and kitchen; put away laundry.

Whew!  This is such a good tired!

And my reward:  I'm listening to the CD Christopher just burned for me:  a LOST soundtrack.  I am particularly hooked right now on the music playing when Hurley tells Claire about Charlie.  Sob!

Gonna go start one more load of laundry and call it a night.

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