Enemy like a flood...

"When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will raise up a standard against it!"

What. A. Day. A good, hard, long, rewarding, exhausting day. My mom came in like a woman possessed and helped us whip the house into shape!

First we scrubbed the walls. Did you know that Windex is awesome for wall scrubbing (and all sorts of other cleaning)? My mom heard it from some friends and we put it to the test today. Windex kicked Magic Eraser's butt! I cannot believe how much better my walls look. I thought only painting would take away all of the writing on the walls, but Windex and elbow grease did the job.

Next the upstairs (kid) bathroom was scrubbed from top to bottom. We got down with toothbrush-like scrubbing brushes and went tile to tile, grout line to grout line. I always neglect that bathroom since it is upstairs in "kid world." My mom made me promise to give it more attention from now on. ;-)

It was downstairs for a quick lunch before I tackled the water stains on the kitchen ceiling. The sink overflowed soon after we moved in 3 years ago and we never got around to repairing the ceiling. We found this stuff at Lowe's that was made for the express purpose of covering water stains on ceilings! So despite the flood we had LAST NIGHT my kitchen ceiling looks a thousand times better. And it took 10 minutes and less than $10 to fix. I still have to spackle and "re-popcorn" one area, but I doubt our SW will even notice that area.

Back upstairs where my mom tackled the linen closet while I tried not to collapse. I was so tired by this point. This stupid bug has just really taken it out of me (although I am on the mend now). Four bags of linen donated to charity later, my linen closet actually holds all of my linens without stuffing!

By this time it was late afternoon. We make the welcome mugs (new visitor gifts) for our church. We had 15 to make for tomorrow morning, but I already know we are too sick to go to church tomorrow. [Eric and Bright are down with "the bug" now.] Eric, Taevy, and I started in on making the mugs while my mom and Bright scrubbed down the kitchen cabinets and windows. Eric and I ran to meet the pastor to give him the mugs, and then my mom headed out for a long 3 hour drive by herself, all the way home to Wichita.

Oh--I forgot to mention that Eric was WONDERFUL and did laundry non-stop today! We kept making more as we cleaned, and he kept washing. Because of his vision he can't do lots of the deep cleaning stuff, but he kept busy and contributed a lot none-the-less.

Tomorrow should be much more laid back. We just have our regular every day cleaning stuff to do before the SW shows up on Monday morning.

It's 8:30 and I can barely keep my eyes open. I'm about to give in to the exhaustion, as I know my body needs more rest than normal so it can heal.

God is good, all the time.

A
P.S. The verse at the top...I wrote to my pastor asking him to pray for us because we have been under such "attack" lately. He responded with that verse, which I thought was so appropriate considering last night's "flood" at the house! Oh--the house almost caught on fire this morning. A nightlight incident. Thank you LORD for protecting us there. We have a hole burned through Samren's bedroom carpet, but thankfully nothing worse.