Cleaning Fairy, wrapping fairy!

What a morning so far!  It's almost 3 and I've gotten 5 loads of laundry washed, dried, folded, hung and put away.  I have the last load in the drier now.  I have cleaned out Cole's toy box, marked the "garage sale" stuff, pitched the rest and then cleaned out his desk, and closet, then we swept and mopped his room.  His room is spotless and ready for Christmas Presents to make their appearances.  He now has a clean canvas to put everything, and quite a bit more room after de cluttering the toy box and book shelves. 
I scrubbed down the bathroom, swept and mopped in there, and the hallways and kitchen too.  Then I swept the dining room, vacuumed the area rug, mopped the wood floors and then went on to vacuum the living room.  I mopped the entry way to the front door.  Then Brody decided to wake up.  I entered the "danger zone"  I went through his toy box.  Pitched some, marked the garage sale stuff and put everything back in place.  I swept, vacuumed the area rug and mopped his floor.  Then I put away the "garage sale" tote and took out the huge bag of trash from the bedrooms.  I then moved on to our room.  Swept, mopped and now I am taking a break!  It's been so productive.  I have been going non stop since 7:30 this morning.  I am so proud and happy that I got all this crap accomplished that I have had to put off since hurting my back.  I just went all out today.  Tomorrow I see the chiropractor in Kahoka again and then Friday I go see Jeff so if I screw it up bad, then I am covered after today!  I just wanted to get this shit all done up before Christmas got here.  It's been REALLY bugging me bad!  I hate all the filth.  I am happy to finally have it all done and looking sharp for the season!
Last night I made two HUGE pots of veggie soup.  I had a bunch of roast leftover for meat and wanted to get it used up, so I decided to get the soups made for Christmas with the Frakes and our New Years party.  I made it up and got it all in my storage containers and in the freezer.  That's one less thing I will have to do next week. 
Tomorrow I have to go to Kahoka, like I said.  I plan on taking presents and folding chairs into my moms while I go in and then I have my support group meeting from 6:30-8 p.m. tomorrow night.  Then I got to get home and get boys to bed and up first thing Friday morning for my appointment with Jeff.  Then we will head to Carthage.  We will be getting things ready for Christmas with Mom and Dennis Friday night!  It's also my birthday, so a little celebrating of that will be going on too I'm sure! 
Saturday neither of us have plans with either set of families, so we have decided to make our own little Christmas Eve dinner.  I have a turkey I am cooking and making home made stuffing, mashed taters and noodles.  Just a simple little family dinner with my boys.  I am looking forward to that.  We also got the boys an early gift to open that night, which is pajamas.  Then I got Cole a new game, so I thought after supper we could clean up and have a little family game night and then early to bed, cause Santa is coming! 
Christmas morning I always make cinnamon rolls.  I will get up and get them in the oven.  When they are cooking I will start getting the guys up.  We will do stockings while cinnamon rolls are finishing cooking, then we eat, then start in with the presents!  Cole is so excited.  I am so happy for him.  I remember the excitement of the season.  I remember it well.  I want to make such good memories for my boys, so I hope that we have started some traditions that stick with them growing up for their own families.  After gifts are open, then daddy usually hangs around, puts things together and then heads off to chore.  I get the boys dressed, loaded up for Grandma Jeans and we head out to Ferris.  We spend the day with Grandma Jean and have a blast.  The kids run around playing we eat a nice meal visit with everyone and then it's "game on" with Grandma or Gramps usually whooping our butts in Shit on your neighbor!  We spend the afternoon playing games, visiting, the kids playing and then we usually have leftovers and then head home for the day. 
The day after Christmas we have nothing to do, so the boys will get to put their things away, and play with their new stuff.  The 27th we have Christmas with the Frakes in at Jenny and Anna's house.  We won't go there till evening so we will have all day the 27th to enjoy our new things too, which will be fun for the boys.  I am hoping they both love their new things.  Santa was pretty good to them both this year.  I know some grandma's who have been pretty good to them too from what I hear, so I think they will both be pretty darned happy boys this next week!  Frakes' Christmas wraps up our holidays until New Years eve, when we are hosting a little game night at our house.  It's just soup, and finger snacky foods and then we will all play games and the kids can play.  It will be a fun night for all I hope! 
I still have a few presents to get wrapped up today.  I forgot one of Coles that I had hidden in my dresser drawer and then Bill's stuff needs wrapped that we bought on Sunday.  Other than that, I think we are pretty good and done with it all.
I have some pork chops thawed out that I have rubbed with some smoky applewood rub and plan on baking those tonight and then making up some scalloped taters for supper.  I am in the mood for some BBQ meat, so I thought pork chops sounded pretty darned good. 
Bill came home at lunch and got Cole to go help him at work today.  Cole was happy to go with his daddy!  He even got his long handles on and his rubber boots.  They must be planning on working pretty hard, there were even a hunt for his gloves!
I'm going to wrap the presents, and then work on my kitchen a bit.  Things could use some major wiping down in there.  It needs done.  I have some things I could go through and organize in my office too, so who knows what the rest of this day will bring, all I know is, it's been super productive and I am happy I was able to get it all done so far!  I will enjoy the season MUCH MUCH better with a clean slate!
Well time to go load up the van for tomorrow and hunt for the wrapping fairy again... I don't know why she keeps leaving, I just keep dragging her back here!