I'll know better next time.

One of our goals before we have this baby is to have the whole apartment cleaned out. The fact that we only have two bedrooms makes it a completely doable task -- one would think.

I had the great idea to clean out the kids room this weekend. The images I had layed out in my mind of the beginning, middle, and end so far are not what has progressed. I say so far because I am way far away from the end result. Probably about three hours worth of cleaning. ugh.

Yesterday we got off to a good start. I was cleaning out one side of the closet while they wiped off a wall with wipes.

Now let me elaborate on this wall. Our seven year old, then six, decided her wall was too boring with fresh white paint so she decided to get...something, maybe a black crayon, to write the numbers 1-20 in bubble numbers, very dark, which inspired the younger ones to then scribble in the whole space between bottom and top bunk. My attempts with goo gone, any kind of cleaner you can name, just soap and water, etc...all futile.

Somehow the wall under the window also had the same crayon smeared look even though I don't remember crayon being on that one so I got one of our clorox wipes and with lots of elbow grease that wall is almost completely clean.

So back to the whole room. They were getting crayon smudge off the wall and I was cleaning out the closet of shoes, toys, clothes, trash, you name it.

Then the fighting began. And never stopped.

I have one out of three that will help, and that goes for doing anything. The other two are better off being in a different part of the house when I'm trying to do something.

We did manage to get the big toy box emptied, after an hour of fighting about it. I got their old shoes in a box that as soon as I left the room (because I had a huge cramp in my belly from sitting so long on the floor) was knocked over and the shoes scattered.

Right now their room is a bigger mess than it has ever been. All the stuffed animals and trash need to be picked up and maybe they can walk in there. They have been playing on top bunk because thats the only place they fit. Its so much to clean that I'm a little overwhelmed. Maybe when they eat lunch I'll turn on a movie in the living room and get it cleaned.

Besides that, I have a huge ant trail in my bathroom, going to and from nothing, which is weird, and I want to finish my kitchen.

So much to do and no idea where to begin.

On another note, I recommend you look up Taylor Swift's new song Love Story. Good stuff, she wrote it herself. Also, I have my next appointment on Thursday so I'm hoping he does an ultrasound or I might just break in to the room and do it myself lol. This is my fourth kid I know how to run the machine.