Spring Cleaning - Day 1

I am thankful I didn't put any pressure or deadlines on myself to get the spring cleaning done - the main objective was just to motivate me to start. I didn't get started until after noon - but I did get some other things done first. Nothing of interest - nor may this be - but here's how I spring clean best:

[Please note I do realize it is quite silly to blog picture-by-picture, step-by-step of my cleaning process - but you know what? It made it MUCH MORE FUN. :) ]
So~
Step one - open the window (if the temperature is above 65 degrees only).
Have some nourishment handy!! I prefer Diet Pepsi or Coke. And Dan got these wonderful, plump, sweet grapes for me/us.

A little background noise like music OR Food Network for me. There's always hope that while I'm cleaning and listening that I'll eventually learn to cook something too!
Next, assess the situation. Cute snowman cookie jar with matching salt & pepper shakers (in case you need a little s&p on your cookies???!?!) - gotta go.

Very pretty, off-white snow-flakey, swirly pie plate with candles on top. Gotta go. So does the YK Christmas Cookie candle.

I work best if I just remove EVERYTHING from the item I am working on. The microwave always sit here. It's all not so bad until.....

you look CLOSER.....ewwwwwww....this is what I'm talking about tackling: the dust and cobwebs you don't see every day. I got a big bucket of warm/hot water with Pine Sol and washed this thing down completely - and tackled the microwave while I was at it.

THIS is MUCH BETTER.... Actually it's not totally right. There are usually a set of hand-made pottery mugs we got in a little town by Strassbourg/Alsace, France on the lower rack - but I can't find them :( I do love my few pieces of Polish pottery - and if I had it to do over again, I would have taken more trips to Poland to shop for pottery while we were stationed in Germany... (Dan scored a Polish pottery soup tureen at Goodwill here for $6 many months ago, which is ALMOST as good, but that will never happen again, I'm sure.)

I won't bore you all with the details of other piddly cleaning I did today...but I got a few small areas cleaned up and freshened up. When the kids got home from school, they both commented on "the good smell". I really hardly clean with Pine Sol, but today it sure made the house smell good! I told them and showed what I'd been doing, and Anna wanted to help.

Anna swept up while I made dinner. I made Chicken with Cream Sauce and Mashed Potatoes.

Since Dan was in a late meeting at work, the kids and I ate first. Both of them LOVED this meal - aside from the mushrooms, but they were easy to pick out. Dan came home around 7:30 and finished off the left-overs. Thumbs up all the way around! It's a keeper - thanks, Sandra!

It was certainly easy to say "This is the day that the Lord has made" today. This is my kind of day!! Tomorrow it's back to work from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., and then we have church. I am looking forward to seeing the kids in Patch Club (the children's Bible club we help in); I had so much fun with them last Wednesday, although I was greatly helped by a little pink bunny named Flopsy. :)

Tomorrow is a day that the Lord will make too - and I will rejoice and be glad!