What do you do when the kids are gone?

Do you clean house?

Put in your favorite chick flick?

Gorge on Candy/ ice cream?

Personally....I like to do all of the above. 

Actually, I don't like to do the first thing. 

No...I don't really care to clean house.. Well, maybe I do sometimes.  Cleaning the house can be a very fulfilling thing.

I did manage to gut and clean the boys' room.  I should just sit in there and look at it for awhile because you know that five minutes after they return home tomorrow it will be a  mess again. 

I really want to put together a box of yard sale items from their room but that would mean hauling it up to the attic which is another disaster area.   Which by the way is the result of my boys who decided to make the attic a play room....something about not being able to play in their own room.

Now, don't get me wrong.  I have the boys pick up their room everyday, make their beds, put their clothes away, but it never stays that way.  I have yet to teach my children how to keep it clean when they play.

So when they head over to a friend's house, I get to work.  Furniture gets moved and all the knooks and cranies get cleaned. 

With that all done, it was time for  a nice bowl of ice cream and a movie with my favorite daughter who was home with me.

Aaahhhhh.....how relaxing it has been.