Since you've been gone!

I have not blogged in a while. I have been busy. I have been busy cleaning! I clean my house several times a year. You know the clean. The clean that you actually take things apart and replace parts, put them back in only when you replace them, they usually do not fit and are really clean.

I have had a strategy in cleaning my house this time. Start at the top (upstairs) and work down to the most lived in soiled part of the house (the kitchen/heath room). Why am I working so hard at cleaning my house do you ask? I have company coming! I thought about forgoing the cleaning and go for the "I am a real person and you will like me in my mess." But then decided that my mom was coming to meet my company and would probably not appreciate my "laissez faire" attitude and invite them to stay at her home.

So in the interest of keeping my company, my company, I have decided to spend at better portion of the week cleaning my home.

I have never had house guests. EVER! In all my years of year of marriage we have never had a single person stay at our house. We had a couple of friends stay with us the weekend that we got married, but we did not even have a bed so does that really qualify as company?

The reason that we have never had company is not that we do not have any friends, it is that we live in the very place that Nathan grew up and we live near most of our family. I must admit I am quite excited to see what happens when my kids have a melt down and cast their bodies on the floor at their feet. I am sure that they will enjoy the glares that I throw at Nathan when he does something wrong. I am sure that they will enjoy the many wacky phone calls about various things, places and people that I know and have to talk about.

Yep by the time that they are done staying with us they will think that the Holiday Inn with the Holi-Dome is heaven! Ahhh I cannot wait!