What I Learned

So today I had a day off from work. I had already paid for daycare, so I thought I would make the most of this day. We all slept in about an hour. Once we got up, Russ and Dallin got ready for the day. I dropped Russ off at the train station, Dallin off at daycare, and I headed home. My plan---clean the house. I did jobs I have been putting off or just didn't have time to do when Dallin was around. I want to share a few things I learned today.

1. Baked on tomato soup is one of the hardest things to clean off. If it's not crusty and completely baked on, forming a hard and impenetrable outer shell, then it is this slimy outer layer that you must clean off layer by layer until you then reach the crusty shell below.

2. You can start your oven on fire when seasoning a dutch over. This leads me to....

3. It takes a good hour to get all the smoke to clear out of your house. In the mean time, your eyes burn and your nose runs and you are freezing because it snowed a foot yesterday and all your windows and doors are open at 9 am.

4. A sign of craziness is looking all over your house for the banana you where going to eat until you realized the oven was on fire, then eventually finding the banana peel in the garbage. I must have eaten it, but I have absolutely not memory of doing so.

5. Laundry multiples in the hamper.

6. The problem with deep cleaning is the more you clean, the more there is to clean.

This is today in a nutshell.

Update: Not long after I posted this, I got a call from the daycare. Dallin was running a fever of 101.9. That put an end to my cleaning day. On a brighter note, after picking up Dallin from daycare, we went to my mom's. Dallin took a long nap while I finished making the sorbet I started yesterday. It was yummy. Get the recipe here.