Spring Cleaning

It is officially summer and we spent the week swimming.....in our basement.  It is great.  You don't have to worry about the kids getting sunburned.  Actually, our recent flooding got cleaned up rather quickly thanks to some close family members and men from our church that spent an evening trudging up and down our stairs.  My husband is now home again, and I put him right to work sorting the basement, a project we have been working on for the past three years.  In penance for being absent during the flooding he did not hesitate to comply with my new list of chores.  We already have about twenty large garbage bags in our garage waiting to be donated to the local thrift store and we are only about halfway done.  This flood finally gave us enough reason to clean out the past eleven years of hording.  My husband says that maybe the flood was a blessing in disguise.  Easy for him to say, he didn't have to wade through the lake!  In all fairness, he is now up to his waist in junk.