My mother is coming, my mother is coming!!

A week from Thursday, my mother, also known as mothra (not because she is a bad person or anything, just because that is what we call her), will arrive. This means I have one week and a day to clean my house, and more importantly organize this place. Due to the bathroom remodeling, the baby's room/guest room has become the "catch all room", and our room is now/baby's room. I am posting the before pictures, just so everyone can appreciate my efforts.

Don't judge, I have two tornadoes and a baby...well four tornadoes and a baby if you count my husband and I, who fail to clean up after ourselves some days!

I have already picked up the living room today, because I need to not only vacuum it, but steam clean it. Why? Because it has blue marker all over it. Why? Because if your toddler is coloring quietly with markers, he is not coloring on paper! At least he was quiet right? I am not cleaning right now, I am typing this instead. Why? Because this is what my living room looks like at the moment:

That's right, I already cleaned this room...and look what happened!! The "popper" is out because he thinks that is his vacuum and when I told him we were going to keep the living room clean to vacuum he interpreted that as "dump my cars out so I have something to vacuum". I don't know why the naked baby doll is in the middle of the floor, but you never know when you will need one of those.

The Dining room is also a mess:

Notice the Christmas wrapping paper in the corner. My wonderful husband was going to bring that downstairs for me, but "I wanted to see how long you would leave it up here if I didn't". Gee thanks! We made Valentines this morning too, which was actually me trying to get him to do anything but play with the glue stick. He is not ready for arts and crafts.

Our room:

At least it is almost picked up, minus that pile of crap on the floor in front of my dresser and of course the baby's things. Notice the cute munchkin on the bed! That is a basket of clean laundry...I wonder if it will fold itself?

I told you our room doubled as the baby's room:

Gotta love the piles of clothes on my 1970's night stand. Something needs to be done about this before mothra gets here! This is also the diaper changing station, so it is a total disaster!

Aedan's room:

WAHOO!! This one is clean! Well as clean as it is going to get for now. There are some misc. things on the dresser that will need to be put away, but for the most part, it is clean. WAHOOO! (Gotta love the dancing toddler who followed me around the house room to room trying to get into every picture!)

The rest of the house isn't bad, well except for the "catch all room"/guest room/supposed to be baby's room where daddy is sleeping right now (he is working nights, he isn't really that lazy). The nice thing about remodelling the bathrooms, is I know those are clean, they are new! I will have to post pictures of them with my afters....ahhh now I have to get off my butt and clean so we have some afters!!