Radio Silence

The last day of the month - I am getting a post into February by the skin of my teeth!
 
Apologies for the lack of posts, I am on the PTA of my children's school and we had our biggest fundraiser of the year on Friday so February has been a total write off.  I knew things would get busy around the time of the fundraiser but I didn't anticipate just how much of my time it would suck up.  The blog has been sorely neglected for the last month.  I had great intentions of pre-loading a couple of posts and sticking one up as and when I could but as the gala approached and the to do list got longer and longer, everything that was not essential took a back seat.  The kids were clothed, fed (jam sandwiches 3 days in a row for lunch - does jam count as one of their 5 a day?) and just about washed and that was about as much as I could find the time to do. 

After taking Saturday to recover from my 7.45am - 9.15pm shift the day before (I am so out of practice being on my feet that long!), today I faced into the reality of what happens when you do the bare minimum for a month.  Here's what I found:

• Every bed in the house needed to be stripped - did my own, the kids can wait because....
• Both laundry baskets were full to the brim - this is why I like to have an underwear drawer full to bursting.  I can go a loooooong time before running out of clean pants.
• Every floor in the house is in desperate need of hoovering, washing or generally having the assorted rubbish that has congregrated on it removed.
• The bathrooms - I'm not even going to elaborate.

I think the only way to deal with it is to go room by room, starting with the easiest one first so I at least feel I am achieving something.  Rome wasn't built in a day and when it comes down to it....