Company's Coming!

 

Hello, gentle readers! Hope you are all well and staying safe!

Company’s coming! Our son and daughter-in-law are coming to visit next week so what have I been doing?         Cleaning. 

Of course, I am. 

Because that’s what I do. That’s not to say I haven’t been cleaning all along. Saturdays and Sundays are my chore days where I attempt (notice I say attempt) to clean the entire house…except for the spare/guest room.

We don’t have much company coming from out of state so the spare/guest room has become the repository of all the things we don’t know where else to put. 

Case in point. Suit cases. 

Now who in the world needs six suit cases? I certainly don’t. Hubby and I haven’t really gone anywhere since my son and his wife got married a couple years ago (hubby has some medical issues so traveling is difficult).

So where are all those suit cases stored? 

You guessed it. The spare room. 

There are other things in there, too. Things I haven’t seen or looked at in months so…I did a major cleaning and gave things to Goodwill or just threw them out. I don’t need all that (and isn’t it amazing how much stuff you can collect without even realizing it?). We’ve been in this house for thirty years and the hubby is kind of a pack rack (heck, we have still have stuff from when we moved to Arizona from New Jersey over forty years ago…it’s difficult to get him to part with things because, you know, ‘I might need it’. It’s an ongoing battle.

The spare/guest room now looks ready for company. New sheets on the bed, new throw rug on the floor, fresh flowers on the dresser. Nice and comfy.

Which brings me to the writing. I’ve hit 52K words in my current work in progress, Wife Unexpected (only 30 or so left to go) so as long as I was on a cleaning spree, I decided to ‘clean’ my book as well. I have edited and edited again, getting rid of all those filler words my editor dislikes. It’s much ‘cleaner’ now.

And that’s about all for me…got a lot to do and I’m running out of time. Stay well! Stay safe! And remember to spread kindness wherever you go!

Marie