Scratching the Surface...

How's this for the first picture to a post?  I know-nasty.  Gone are the days when my official cleaning day was "Monday."  Since I started homeschooling my children, I don't get a chance to deep clean my kitchen as often as I would like.  Hence the title "Scratching the Surface."  I went through cupboards, dusted the shelves, consolidated, threw things away (hence the nasty floor) and scrubbed.

My husband had the three older kids at the SAP Open all day Friday and my mother in law took the rest of the three kids that day so I could get down and dirty.  Here I am behind the stove.  It felt so good.

I literally have to scrub our kitchen floor.  I can only mop so much until the dirt collects on this faux tile floor. It has little grooves that love the dirt build up.

I took the panel off of the fridge, washed it and vacuumed it out under there.  It wasn't tooooo bad, but still, bad enough.

There's a beautiful kitchen that's clean through and through not just on the surface!

And here's me, happy and glowing after I've done what I swear I do best....clean.

Scratching the Surface again...

On a side note, my friend Becky re tagged me wanting me to answer the eleven questions she came up with for her tag.   So I'm going to scratch the surface again and talk more about me, which is fun, but this is it-promise.

1. What is the funniest joke you know?
What do you get when a witch crosses the sand?  A sandwich.   I know, it's awesome.  
2. Who is your favorite Disney Princess?
Rapunzel for sure.  My daughter Georgia looks like her and that movie is the bomb.  
3. If you had the money and time, would you come visit me in Michigan? Honestly. 
Of course I would.  I really want to meet your daughter!
4. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go, who would go with you and how long would you like to stay?
Simple.  I would go back to Switzerland where I would stay in the "where abouts" of Lake Lucerne.   I'd go with my side kick, Kirk Klippel, of course.  We loved it there so much.  And guess what? My favorite tennis player, Roger Federer is from there.  My husband said I could look him up if we go back. Ya know- just to chat.  :)

5. What piece of furniture in your house is your favorite or that you are most happy with? (picture?)
There are three pieces:  My bed, a desk that was recently sitting on our common lawn with a "free" sign, that my daughter Gwyneth is currently using and the butcher block in my kitchen.  The butcher block can be seen above. Here are some pictures:

6. What is your favorite season? Why?
My favorite season is Winter.  I love the rain, it makes me happy.  I know, I'm the opposite of everyone else.  Too much sun these days is depressing for me.  As I get older I can't handle it as well and the clouds and rain, I think, are beautiful.  I always feel like calling the Weather Channel when they describe the clouds and rain as gloomy to say, "Hey that's all relative you know, there are people out there who think the sun is gloomy!"  I think I would love Washington State for example, and my husband says I would get sick of it.  


7. If you could pick any calling in the church, what would you choose? (not aspire to, choose)
I love teaching Relief Society.  I love teaching.  I would never choose to be Relief Society President, no thank you, not ever.  I've served under four presidencies as a counselor in the last four years and those presidents/women are here and there and everywhere, making magic.  I'm not magic like that.  


8. Do you believe there is one right person for us to marry (promises in heaven and such) or do you think that any two people willing to put forth the effort could make any marriage work? 
I believe there is more than one person for another person.  I think your sister answered this perfectly in her tag.  To me it doesn't make sense the other way.  That's not reality to think there is just one person for another.  Are there better people for certain people?  For sure.  Do people often get married for wrong reasons and all that goes along with that?  For sure.  But, given time, effort. patience, compassion, love, two people can be together and be happy.  
But, it can be fun to think there is only one for you.  


9. What is included in your vision of "The Perfect Day?"


This is a hard one.  I'm tempted to skip it.  But, it's nothing grand I guess.  The perfect day is feeling satisfied that I've done my best at what I do.  I like productivity, so there is going to be a lot of that in my perfect day for sure.  I have days where I feel like everything ran smoothly, with love, and giggles, good food, family and good friends, and hard work.  That's my perfect day.  

10. Which would you rather, sweat moderately but constantly 24 hours a day all over your body or have a metal pin in your jaw that constantly picks up talk radio stations? 


I'll take a the radio station in my jaw.  If I can tune out six crazy kids, two of which are still babies and are subject to a lot of whining and crying, I can certainly tune out some random radio stations.  And then the occasional classical station or Dr. Laura that my jaw picked up would be great.  :) 

11. If you could get your hair to look anyway you wanted, style, color, length, etc. what would it look like? (picture?)

Oh my goodness I could name off hundreds of women who have great hair that I want.  Some that come to mind right off are:

Famous: Giselle Bundchen and Jennifer Lopez

Friends: Adrienne Hales and Carry Ryassen (they have naturally loose wavy, thick hair to dye for.)