What We Do When Ben is Gone

I was going to find a picture of a messy room (Ben has the camera) to post here and write a cute little blurb about how I tend to do projects when Ben is gone and ignore the house but I soon found that if you type dirty into a search engine you come up with a lot of stuff you didn't want. The need to search left me and so this post is picture less. Too bad. Pictures would have been cute. For instance, right now I have no living room floor. It is covered in puzzles, and crayons, and stuffed animals, and castle toys, and who knows what. If you walked into my house right now the first thing you would think would be, 'wow, this lady is not a good housekeeper,' which just isn't true. I am a mediocre housekeeper. I would then lead you carefully (look out for the legos, they hurt) over to my pantry and kitchen cabinets and open them with a relish to which you would see that everything was covered in contact paper and wiped up and organized and seeable. (Hmmm, it is saying seeable is not a word but I'm going to keep it). You would realize that I am able to clean, just not in places you can see. Tomorrow I will organize kid's clothing. The day after that I might clean out the attic space. Have no fear though. The day before Ben gets home all the dishes will be washed, the laundry folded, the toys picked up and the floor mopped. Until then please make an appointment if you would like to come over. I do have a little bit of pride left ;)