Vacuuming

I have a question: How Often Do You Vacuum Your Home?

I have been asking myself how often I should be vacuuming my floors for at least the past three years and I'm still not sure! Some people say once a week, some say everyday. I once heard from someone that you should vacuum once a day per person that lives in the house. Lately I find myself vacuuming at LEAST every other day just because my kids like to dump the bowl of dry cereal on the floor and pretend they are on a treasure hunt for O's. It's cute, but messy.

I dont really mind vacuuming and my husband is nice enough to do it for me if I dont want to. However, my second and third floors tend to only get vacuumed once every two months. There isn't a lot of foot traffic up there or activity so I can usually get away with it.

But this begs the question: How Often Should You Clean Your Bathrooms? How Often Should You Clean Your Oven? Your Refrigerator? Your Laundry room?
Most of the time I just do it when I cant stand the filth. But I'm wondering..... Should I be cleaning more?

2004 R6

I had my first ride on my husband's sport bike today and boy, oh boy. The first ride is definitely something to get used to but the second? The second ride was awesome.

The wind, the speed, the energy is all electrifying! It's like something was sparked inside of me. I feel again.

It's crazy I know. How could just two rides on the back of my man's bike electrify me back to life? I have no idea. Frankly-I don't care.

All I know is, I want more.

Retreat

I've been going back and forth abbot a lot of my lifestyle choices lately and who I want to be in the end. The road I am on, is not leading me to a great end result. I need to change Some things back and other things altogether.

But is it hypocritical to be flip-flopping like this? Or is it just experimentation? Gees, I don't really sound all the confident. Honestly lately I've been pretty pathetic.

I need to snap out of this but I really don't know how. All my energy is going into the negative and I've forgotten how to sit back relax and focus on the positive. Any tips out there on how to fix this funk?

My First Mama Cloth

As you know I've recently switched my chldren to cloth diapers. That journey has actually been a awesome one. My daughter doesn't cry during diaper changes anymore and my sons skin in great. Through this journey though we have snowballed into a bigger one. Changing the house hold cleaners, paying closer attention to what we digest and making sure the every day things we use can contribute to the environment instead of harm it.

In this journey I've also learned a lot about serveral different things. Milks, The Dirty Dozen and Clean 15, how to make my own laundry detergant, and about Mama Cloth.

"Oooooo, what is that?" you ask? It's pretty much the same concept for cloth diapers but adapted to moms. It's a reusable pad. "WHAT?!? OMG THAT'S SO GROSS!!!!" you say? Yes, yes the concept startled me too at first, but then I started to think. It's not that much more gross that a poopy diaper, you can find ways to make them more sanitary after use, and they come in awesome prints.

Partypantspad.com offers a Free liner to try. All you pay is S&H. You dont get to pick your print, but to me, that's kind of fun. I received my first pad today and wanted to take you all with me when opening the package. So, here we go...

See! Not that scary looking at all! This is their Demi Linner with an extra snap. I LOVE that they put the guitars on there. It's like a sign! Haha, cuz I play Guitar. You didn't know? Oh yeah, I do haha. But anyways. I hope you enjoyed our little journey together. :-)

Till Next Time!

Bad Information

Sometimes the information you are given is not information you want. Your husband has a business trip, a test has a bad result, something you bake burns. These things happen. No big deal. Not for me.
In my head my world crumbles. It's difficult for me to react correctly to bad outcomes. Any tips? I've really got nothing right now.

Out-A-Town

For the past few months I've been coming to my patents house for a few days to help with my siblings while my mom recovers from monthly hip injections.
This month I opted to stay a few extra days and because of that there's more days I don't get to see my already absent husband. Normally it wouldn't be an issue except that the day after I come home, my husband will be leaving on Missions for about 2 1/2 weeks.
It sucks. I had two days notice. Those two days sucked because of the petty fights we tend to get into to make the separation easier. We barely made up in time to get I'm a brief date before I left as well.
We went to see Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2. I highly recommend it. It was amazing.
Dates like that are nice, but we tend to do nothing else after or before a movie. I was hoping for more intimacy I suppose.
I know I'm not the only Military wife that gets the short notice she has to care for the home children on her own for upwards of a month. I know there are others. But in my circle, I am the only one. And it sucks. And I just want to be able to rely on my husband for more than a month at a time for once...

Lifestyle Changes

My husband is having a hard time moving from mainstream living to Green Living. He gets upset that I've changed the milk or only want the kids to be chewing on eco-friendly toys. I think it's funny. He will get used to it.

The lifestyle change is more than just ecological awareness. I believe myself, my children, my home, my husband, are all worth the best and only the best. We came from earth so why not use the things that naturally come from the earth? None of us were engineered in a science lab. At least, no one that I know reading this. It kind of seems wrong to be putting science lab engineered formulas into/onto my body.

I am enjoying the change. It occupies so much time. The kids and I get out of the house so often. It's great. I'm having a very positive experience.