Today I did something very uncharacteristic of me.

I'm not sure what possessed me or even what planted the idea in my mind, but it took root and I had to go with it.

I'd been sitting at the table all day, working on my homeschooling planning for the year (okay, okay, I know I'm a little behind!) and I needed a break.  Normally, when I need a break from sitting down and doing school work, I do the only reasonable thing that a busy, connected, homeschooling mother does:  I take my cup of tea and my chocolate and head over to my computer and I sit down.  After all, I do have to multitask you know, and if I didn't take my snacks and my lunch at my computer, how else would I find the time to hang out here, or on my fave forum, or surf the 'net?  I mean, really.

Anyway, today, I needed a break from sitting down, so I did the unthinkable.

I cleaned.

Now, if you know me, you know that is not like me.  Not like me at all.  I hate cleaning.  Hate cooking, too, for that matter, but that is a topic for another blog entry.  So here I am, me of the hate cleaning philosophy, and for a break I grab my handy Swiffer and start swiffing.

This has nothing to do with the fact that I bought fancy new wet-cloths for my Swiffer at Wal-mart yesterday...nothing!

What I found as I was swiffing, is that the act of swiffing with a Swiffer is quite addictive!  And, man, can that thing really catch those dust bunnies!  Gotta love it!  Anything that makes cleaning easier - I'm all for it.  So I swiffed and I wet-swiffed and swiffed and wet-swiffed some more.  Now my floors are all sans dust bunnies and they are clean.  Wow!

But, you know, I have one better than that handy Swiffer!  They don't have nothing on me!  For years now, I've had a wonderful technique that makes sweeping and washing the floors so much easier and faster and I use it every single time. Works like a charm!

Wanna know what it is?

I don't wear my glasses.

'Cause then I can't see the dirt!

Can't sweep and wash dirt that ya can't see!  And can't feel guilty about not doing a good job if you can't see what you didn't do.

Works every time!