Gettin' pissy with it

Cleaning would probably be easier if I did it more often. We have been demon cleaning, trying to get a few rooms acceptable for human inhabitance. The thing that gets me is that when I do start cleaning, I get mad. I get mad at the shit in the boxes hanging out, I get angry at all the tools and muddy boots at the backdoor while Matt works on the deck (since July? June?), I get mad at the dust that is in the room that I just dusted a couple of days ago (the dogs running through and constantly shaking?), the muddy paw prints throughout the house, the clothes I didn't put away. Well, you get the drift. I just become a pissy person. 

My rule is, if I see tiny toys on the floor for more than a couple of days ... I figure the kids don't really want to play with it OR like it, so I throw it away. Seems reasonable to me. I must pick 100's of rubber bands, socks, toys, Q-tips (I have discovered the cats like to go on the counter, dig the Q-tips out of the cup and throw them on the floor --- for me to pick up?), dog toys all week long, over and over. I just might mention we have large dog toys that in the dark of the night I will trip over if I am not shuffling ... hence, I don't like the have a completely dark room. Pixie pees in the bathroom in the middle of the night, which is why I warn everyone to check the floor before bounding in there. Oh, the joys of it all. 

I talk to a few friends of mine that live alone and while living in the clean existence, I am thankful for the kids being here with me. Bri helps me all the time with the heavy lifting, carrying crap up and down the stairs, taking heavy bags of clothes to the car. I really can't complain. All in all, I have it very easy.

 William Langson Lathrop was an American Impressionist landscape painter and founder of the art colony in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where he was an influential founder of Pennsylvania Impressionism. 

Lathrop was a member of the National Academy of Design and served on numerous exhibition juries during his career. He received a gold medal at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition (1915) in San Francisco, which showcased works by many of the major American artists of the time. 

You can actually feel the peace of the years these paintings were created.