Adventures in Spring cleaning

It's that time of year again. Spring is in the air, birds are chirping, the sun is shining, the wind is breezing, and the winter dust is floating in the house. Time to spring clean!

As I mentioned in a previous post, I have this small obsession with Pinterest, and way to much time to feed it.  I knew the day would come when I would need some spring cleaning check lists and lucky me , I had several to choose from thanks to pinterest.
I'm not usually a checklist type of gal, but what harm could it do to have a couple at my disposal?

Checklist in hand, I proceeded to lay out my cleaning schedule to the children with as much enthusiasm as I could muster at the thought of cleaning the entire house from top to bottom. By the time I was done, the kids all had a glazed look in their eyes, you know the one that says, you've ruined my life, I can't believe you're going to make me do this, do I have to?  I could tell right away I would have to drag them and myself kicking and screaming through the process.
At any rate, it's not like they had a choice or anything, so I picked a day and come heck or high water, we were gonna start, and we did. I have learned over the years, when I do clean, to start at the top and work your way to the bottom, so cobwebs, curtains and ceiling fans were the chosen projects for day one. Have you ever thought how amazing it is how busy children can become when faced with certain death as far as they are concerned? I mean, most the time they are bored with nothing to do, you give them something to do and suddenly they are to busy. What's up with that?
I was not going to let them get away with this sudden, Ohhh I have things to do syndrome so I rounded them all up , gave them their own task and a nice little pep talk to go along with it. Everything got done except one window and our spring cleaning week was off and running.
I checked my list, marked off everything that was done, and decided what to do next, which for day two was going to be dusting. I decided to pull everything out of the livingroom and then  dust the furniture and put everything back as we dusted it. I would like to mention here that I don't particularly enjoy dusting, but it had to be done. What was I thinking? !?!?! This was taking way more time than it was supposed to, and by 3 in the afternoon the bookcase still wasn't done, my feet were hurting, my back was aching, and my head was pounding, and I was ready to fling myself at the couch and take a nap.
I decided we were done for the day, as I wanted to make sure I was helping and I was no longer capable of doing that so I decided what we were going to do the next day and let them go about their merry way.
Wednesday dawned bright and early and Spring cleaning came to a screeching halt. Alyssa went somewhere, Joshua became suddenly invisible and Winter disappeared as soon as I said time to wash walls. I was to tired from dusting day to argue about it or do it by myself, so I thought well one day won't be so bad if we skip it, no biggy. Yeah right! I've noticed, when faced with something you don't really want to do, one day off turns into it never gets done, ever, which is the case here. Thursday was also a flop, with other things getting done instead.
I'm finding that the older I get multi tasking is going right out the window, there is no turning back, I can only plod along and get done what I get done., and that's okay. I'm not sure if we will be able to start back up again, we shall see, we still have a lot to accomplish,  in the mean time I think maybe I'll just enjoy the Spring birdies and weather and not worry about it., at least until Monday anyways.