Playing House!

Playing house was my favorite thing to do when I was a little girl. I guess I was born with a love for homemaking and care taking. Mondays are the one day a week I try to make a 'stay at home cleaning house day.' I work in an orderly fashion - cleaning room to room, top to bottom and side to side. Today I started in the back of the house with our bedroom.

After each room was clean, I lit a candle and added a bouquet of fresh cut flowers from the garden.

EVERYTHING is blooming profusely! Soon I hope to get some other plantings in and established before the summer heat hits!

Louis Dean was working all afternoon on the camper.

The inside has been repaired so he moved to the outside.

The roofing - or whatever it's called - is good for only about 10 years and the camper is 15 years old.

He mopped it with some kind of silver looking goop that will prevent the rain from getting in and causing damage in the future. He said the kitchen was 'fixin' to have a BIG problem!

I would come out and hold the ladder for him as he climbed up and down and then go back to cleaning as he 'mopped' the roof. Last night I noticed that Lucy had tracked in what I thought was mud down the hall and across the dining room. I spent over an hour on my hands and knees cleaning up what turned out to be that very same GOOP Louis Dean was using. He mixed it all up yesterday and apparently HE was the culprit who tracked it in on his shoes! If I had known it wasn't mud, I would have cleaned it up last night instead of letting it dry! Fortunately, MOST of it came up. A couple of places wouldn't budge even with a good scrubbing of 'Goo Goon.' That GOOP stayed!!

It's a good thing I am a good housekeeper! After Louis Dean finished the job, he went AROUND the house instead of THROUGH it to the gazebo where he stripped off all those goop covered clothes AND shoes and dropped them in a black garbage bag! He came in and soaked his tired self in a hot tub for a LONG time!!!

I kept cleaning and made it through the entire house with the exception of the den.

Instead of roses and honeysuckle for the kitchen bouquets, I used mint and rosemary in a tiny creamer and cobalt blue glass vase.

We had quite a storm last night with high winds and lightning - but very little rain.

This evening that arrived!

Louis Dean called me out to the front porch to show me the awesome rainbow!

I always remember the order of colors in the rainbow from my homeschooling days.

Rainbows Over You

God's Blessed Vow

Red/Orange/Yellow/Green/Blue/Violet

As I walked back in the house I noticed FRESH tracks of GOOP in the very places I had already cleaned!!! I followed them right in to Louis Dean's music room!! I may have been a bit testy when I requested he LOOK at the bottom of his shoes! YUP! As he was walking around on the driveway he stepped in some of the GOOP he had spilled and then tracked it right in with him.

I must admit to having a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes as I hauled out the bucket and cleaners for another round!

He and I have made a new pact. NO shoes are to be worn into the house!

It's just not safe!

While he was up on the camper roof this afternoon, I sat on the driveway just in case he needed me to hand him something. I used this time to do some writing the old fashioned way - with pen and paper!

I am embarking on a new adventure. I am writing a book.

"Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out."

Jodi Picoult

“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”

― Christopher Hitchens

We shall see which of these quotes will prove true for me.