September Acres

I'm excited to be participating in the Nester's 31 Days series again this year.  Tomorrow's the big day!  Last year over 1200 bloggers participated, blogging about anything and everything you could think of for the entire month of October. My theme this year is 'Making your House your Home' so I'm linking up in the 'House & Home' category, natch. This month's all about making your home comfortable, welcoming, creative, warm and most of all, you !  This is where you'll find links to each day's post.  I hope your stop by to check it all out. Day 1 - Enter Here Day 2 - Aromatherapy Day 3 - Book Shelves Day 4 - Dining Day 5 - Kids' Artwork Day 6 - In the Backyard Day 7 - Music Day 8 - Feeding Them Day 9 - Movie Night Day 10 - Flowers Day 11 - Kids' Rooms Day 12 - Master Bedroom TV? Day 13 - Game Night Day 14 - Homework Station Day 15 - Favorite Things Day 16 - Fresh Baked Day 17 - Spic 'n Span Day 1...

Well, it's that time of year again when Nester challenges us to write on one topic for 31 days in October.  I haven't been posting much this year - things are super busy and when it gets like that something needs to go and this time it was blogging.  I miss it sometimes and sometimes I'm just too busy to miss it. One thing about the 31 Days challenge is that it really is a challenge .  Think about it, no matter what, you need to post something worthy of reading for 31 days.  In. a. row.  Not that the blog police will come check on you if you miss a day.  Or your blog will get shut down.  Or someone will be mad if you don't post.  It's more of a personal challenge and I'm one of those people that if I say I'm going to do something I will do it. Even if it's just writing a blog post so I can cross it off my to do list.  I've spent a little time thinking about whether or not I wanted to participate in the challenge this year and I've decid...

I was excited to see a Cleaning Tips post over at  Kelly's Korner  last week.  Sometimes I just wonder what has happened to my house.  It's clean as in we aren't going to get ill from eating at our table.  It's clean as in the sheets get changed every week and the bathrooms get cleaned weekly.  It's clean as in we will not be on 'Hoarders' anytime soon. But it's not clean to my liking and for the life of me I cannot keep my tile floors clean.  They are white which is issue one and I feel like we drag every little piece of dirt in from the outside.  And the dust that accumulates on the (dark) furniture drives me crazy.  Dust everyday?  Sure, that's what I want to do. I have a schedule - a flexible one, but this is what it looks like on the 'normal' week: Sunday - Clean the fridge (trash gets picked up on Mondays so I pitch what I need to on Sundays), empty trash cans, clean dog doo (LM does the last two), mop kitchen floor. Mon...