Just one more reason I LOVE my kids

I constantly feel lucky to have the kids I do. There are so many reasons that I love them but tonight's reason is that I can vacuum their rooms while they are sleeping! You may know that cleaning is a pastime of mine and while I enjoy cleaning (most of the time) I L-O-V-E me a clean house. Sooooo since you obviously already know how lame I am (I just spent my Friday night cleaning my house and now I am posting about it on my blog...even I can see how pathetic this is) and love me anyway I know that you won't judge me for what I am about to tell you.

I will say it again. I love a clean house and with relatively little planned for tomorrow, visions of relaxing and playing with the kids jump started my cleaning expedition tonight. As always, I made my list so that I could cross things off as I finished. My original thought was that I would do some tonight and some tomorrow but once I got going, I didn't want to quit until everything was scratched off the list. "Everything" included a lot of vacuuming, even the kids rooms. It was late by the time I was ready to finish up my chores and the kids had been sleeping for hours. Most people would worry about waking them, scaring them with the noise of the vacuum even. Not me. I knew that I would not be able to sleep until all the work was done, so I went for it. When I entered their rooms, this is what I found...

So sweet! Who would want to disturb that, right? A lady with a mission, that's who. With them both sleeping soundly, I picked up their rooms (I even hung some art work on the wall in Abby's room!) and started vacuuming. Just like the kids that I know and love, they slept through the whole thing! When I was done vacuuming I remembered that the one thing still on my To Do List was "change sheets" in the kids' rooms. So I did! How, you may wonder, do you do that with the child sound asleep int the bed? Easy. You just move them to the freshly vacuumed floor, change the sheet and put them back.

Not only do my kids have amazing sleeping abilities (this might quite possibly be a genetic quality that they inherited from both sides) but they are also so supportive of my need to constantly clean! When I was finished with Ben's room I woke him up to use the bathroom and when he walked into the hall (which I had vacuumed minutes earlier) he smiled and said in his groggy little voice, "Oh Mommy, it looks so nice and clean." That's my boy!