You never realize how messy your home is until you are expecting house guests.

Mark’s Aunt Becci, and his cousin Vanessa, are coming to stay with us for a week or so. In about a week and a half. And our home is a wreck. We haven’t vacuumed in weeks, and I really need to actually use the carpet cleaner we got. The fridge, floors, and windows need scrubbing. At least the bathroom isn’t half bad, other than the piles of laundry. I try really hard to keep that reasonably clean.

I would show you pictures of the mess, but I am a little ashamed to admit to it.

I need to clean out the fridge, and scrub it (which I hate doing). The sinks all need some Ajax love. I need to straighten, and tidy, and dust. Oy. And I need to get the love seat and weight bench out. One is going to my mother-in-law, the other to my brother. That will give us a little extra space in here.

And we have to have it all done within the next week, because we leave for vacation a week from tomorrow, and then we get back the day before Becci arrives.

Truthfully, everything needs to get done anyhow. And it will be great to have them here. The last time we saw them was two years ago, before Becca was born. We email back and forth occasionally, but don’t get a chance to talk much. So we’re all looking forward to catching up.

Holy Bajoly. I just checked my google reader for the first time in a few days… 112 posts to read. And I know most of you have some awesome blog posts just waiting for me to read them. I’m going to be cutting out work early today, so that I can get some reading done.