Sometimes it's worth the wait

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Cleaning her room is a process for my daughter. It can take several days and always involves much laundering of clothes and throwing away of .. well, things. Lots.of.things. It is also something of an archaeological dig and the finds can be fabulous. Dani, on the phone with her boyfriend:

“Honey? I found a light, it looks like a light. It’s in a box and it’s round. Its – it’s a car part Tony. I found a car part in my room.”

She becomes a scientist studying the artifacts she discovers as she digs through the many layers covering her floor. She finds things she can’t identify and does not remember which frankly, freaks me out a little.

A few books are always found.


I know she's a vegetarian but I had no idea she was growing her own food under her bed!


This guy has been SO helpful!

There are always a few strange things uncovered ...


...like some random Smurfs


...and the occasional family of borrowers.

But what I am looking forward to the most ...


.. is this much stuff ending up on the curb come garbage day!

Unfortunately, something always gets missed!

He IS kind of cute though, isn't he?
Sigh-h-h.

I was cleaning the bathroom. And I forgot.

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Maybe it was because I don’t clean often enough so it didn’t occur to me that I had been doing it.

Maybe it was because another cleaning project distracted me.

Maybe it was because a TV show I wanted to see came on.

Or just maybe it was because I sat down in front of my computer.

Regardless. I was cleaning the bathroom. I had cleaned the sink and the tub and had sprayed the toilet. For some reason still unknown to me, I left the room to, what? Do something else apparently! I did a little laundry, a few dishes, and then sat down in front of my computer with the TV on as well. An hour later I realized the bathroom light was on and no one was in there. There were cleaning supplies on the sink and paper towels on the floor, so when I walked in there I was able to deduce what I had been doing. And at that point, I remembered I had been doing it!

But I still don’t know what pulled me away and why I forgot I was doing it at all.

*scratches head*

Does this kind of thing happen to anyone else????

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