There's No Place Like Home.

Vacation mom returns...

I hope you all didn't miss me too much last week. My vacation was fun, There was The Great Escape, an awesome Rush concert, and camping at Glimmerglass State Park, and the Baseball Hall of Fame. Then "Sucks at Being on Vacation Mom" was missing little "bug bites" and "the cleaner" so I left vacation a day early to bring them to the Moreau Lake State Park for the day. It was pretty sweet coming home to a clean house, however it didn't stay clean for long once I settled in and unpacked. 

 Living Room

Would you look at that, a new batch of laundry. I wonder how long it will take me to put this batch away. And looking at this picture the carpet looks pretty dirty too, perhaps it's time to put the vacuum to use. I might have to take the time to shampoo it this week... Stupid white carpets.

Kitchen 

 I would like for you all to take a moment and notice that I wasn't lying last week, the box on the floor is indeed gone. 

So, I have to admit that it doesn't look as bad in this picture as it did to me standing in the middle of it. The sink is full of dishes and would look more full if the dirty dishes on the counter were in it rather than sprawled out across the whole counter. They have been sitting there since Friday when I cooked dinner, and now have food perma-dried onto them. I so need a dishwasher. 

Dining Room 

Like my new mail piles on the counter? No? Me either, I have a solution to that coming soon. Not too bad in here, just some kids stuff on the table.

Back Room

 Apparently this is where my tent lives. Other than that nobody has been in here so it's pretty much unchanged.

Bathroom

Someone has clearly been in here though. Look, they left their clothes behind, and a flat iron, and although you can't see it they also left a pile of towels. 

Kids Room

Sorry about this dark picture. All but one of the light bulbs in the room have blown, I need to bring in a ladder to change them all. The boys haven't been here, so their room is still clean. You can barely see it, but I finally got some help and took the disassembled crib in the corner out to the garage.

My Room 

The Hall of Shame... Not just clothes, but there is all kinds of crap on my bed. My partially unpacked bags on the floor. And lets not even talk about the dresser. One of these days it will be clean in here, I swear.

While the inside of my house has suffered a backslide, the outside got quite a bit of attention over the beautiful weekend. Three and a half hours were spent outside mowing and trimming and weed-whacking. And of course now it's raining for the next three days and you won't be able to tell again by the weekend. Maybe I'll show you tomorrow.