Pints of ice cream in my house after last night: 0
Rooms cleaned last night: 0.5
Socks in progress: 2
Hours of sleep: 3

I asked my family about using their names on this blog... not that anyone is reading it but we all feel a little weird about having too much information floating around. Pretty much any name that comes up that is not already in the public domain is some kind of nickname. Just understand that [not her real name] is implied every time you see a name.

The table in the kitchen is clean. Under the table still needs to be swept and mopped, but it is cleaner. (I paid my daughter Bean to crawl under and push everything out and then throw the trash away - she was under there for a long time muttering about how five stupid dollars was not enough for this). I felt very smart and sat on the couch knitting as she muttered and cleaned. I think I am definately on to something. I would be terribly embarrassed to hire a maid because (paradoxically) our house is WAY too messy for someone else to come in and help, but Bean lives there and is fully aware of how yucky our house can get. She's also almost ten and really understands the value and power of money. We're going on a short vacation at the end of June and she knows that she has to have her own spending money... I lose patience with the crap she wants to buy.

So anyway, my husband got the trash out and I did some dishes and there is improvement but it's still a sad, sad kitchen.

I got so little sleep because there was a series of thunderstorms last night and so was AWAKE most of the night.

Will work for sleep... oh wait...