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Oh my!  I am making myself absolutely crazy, super cleaning for Passover.  And Oh man does it ever need it!!  I seriously should have started this week before last because I doubt it will be done in time for Passover which we will try to celebrate on Thursday evening.  At the rate we are going we will be celebrating in a clean house sometime this Fall LOL 

ONE bathroom is almost done and boy does it feel, look and smell good.  I'm cleaning areas that I probably haven't cleaned since I nested with my first born LOL.  I'm pretty sure that 3 days on each room isn't going to get done by Passover but that's okay because it really needs it.  My Messianic girlfriend says she usually starts cleaning on Ash Wednesday so that is 6 weeks to super clean (NOW you tell me! lol).  Next year I think I will join her because heaven knows it will need it again by then.

But I sooooooo needed to do this.  I guess I have barely been surface cleaning for ??? I don't even know how long.  My bathroom and every crevice have been triple cleaned.  Every nook and cranny has been wiped down inside and out.  G-d so knew I needed to do this and if we have Passover in the bathroom (the only clean room in the house - LOL) oh well then - dayenu "it would have been enough" - but at this point I really don't care when we celebrate Passover; cleaning this house is taking priority.  I just wish the rest of it wasn't falling apart while I work on the one room OR better yet that my boys would truly help which they are not.

I've started on my bedroom and the main bathroom today.  The boys are working on their room but woefully distracted. 

So far:

• I have found a whole big box and bag of Betty Crocker points.  Well, Betty discontinued that program in 2006!!!
• I have found the letters that I wrote to the boys while they were babies, about my pregnancy with them and thoughts of how and what they were learning and doing as they grew --- they have been missing for 4 years!!!!
• I discovered that our family should never be stinky  -- LOL we have 12 unopened containers of deodorant!!!
• And we should be very soft too LOL -- we have 8 bottles of lotion (dh brings home a lot of this when it goes on clearance - need to talk to him about how much we need to hoard up hmm... may take some of this to a shelter because I don't think we need THIS much of it)!!!!
• I have discovered that just plain ole dust can clog not one but 2 vacuum cleaners if you vacuum enough of it.  Hopefully dh can fix one of them and I think I was able to unclog the other.
• I have found scotch tape, file folders and more card stock all of which I thought we were out of that I needed to buy and now I won't - "penny saved" and G-d knows how many pennies I need to be saving.
• Found the BookIt pizza coupons for free pizza (expire end of May) for the kids hmmm... maybe an incentive to move faster... doubt it
• Found the lost nail clippers -- 2 sets -- and lost comb
• I have found open space in two cabinets and I'm not really de-cluttering unless it is obvious that it is trash or I don't want it.  Cleaning is enough for now.

All this and I am sparing you the GROSS details that I found.  Lets just say that some things are best dusted (or should I say sand blasted) with the blower for the yard or the air compressor LOL

It really feels good.  I can see why this is such an important aspect of preparing for Passover.  I only wished I would have started this sooner.

Back to my 9 inch layer of dust LOL!

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