*OkieDebbie*

Well, I managed to get one goal finished already. I decided to get started on the baseboards in the kids' bathroom. It was the worst and drove me nuts every time I went in there-lol!


Here is a picture of one of them before:

You can see, sort of, how the caulking around this board is not very smooth. I think that made dust get trapped more and it got very grimy...

 Problem with that was, I had a hard time just using a cloth to wipe it down. I went to softly scrubbing with a scrub brush--new problem:

These are clean, but do not look like it-though I promise they are. The brown you see is paint that rubbed off-even though I was gentle with the brush :( I will show Eric when he gets home and I think will take on a project when it is warmer of removing these baseboards, removing the caulk, repainting them and letting Eric re-caulk them. He is really good at that-makes a very pretty bead :) So, I know they will look nice when he is finished and they will be easier to clean next time. I think the paint used in our bathrooms is not a bathroom paint, and that might be why it rubbed off so easily. I will be sure to use a good bathroom paint when I repaint :)

Here is an area away from the tub that needing cleaning, but I could just use the damp towel due to no caulk-crevices :) It looks much nicer!

On another note--]

This is what my kids did yesterday :

Levi wanted to make a lemonade stand to sell lemonade, but I had no disposable cups. So, they decided to raise money for a local animal shelter/rescue. They raised over $12 in just a few hours :) They are out there again today and hoping to raise more :) I honestly did not think it would work out for them, but it really did! They made this all up on their own, didn't even ask me-lol, and did a great job! Im proud of them :)