Now why do you think our house gets so messy and we don’t even have little kids in the house anymore? It doesn’t make sense does it?
When you have kids, you’re always in the ‘pick up’ mode. You have toys, Cheerios, socks, and sometimes even pants in about every room in your house. Well, we did anyway. And you’re picking up stuff and trying to just keep a path going, right? Now when you don’t have kids in the house, the mess just creeps up on you and you’re not in the pick up zone anymore. All of a sudden you look around and find some socks in the living room and realize that the dog that you just left in was digging around in the laundry basket and found some treasures he wanted to keep. And the only reason you found the sock was because the blanket moved when he got up where he hid it underneath.
Now come to think of it, maybe it wasn’t all your kids messes and you just thought it was. I mean I’ve got soap setting all around lately and if we had kids, I sure wouldn’t be doing that!
And we’ve got our taxes all sprawled out on the floor and before we’d have to worry that someone would either color on it or sparkle glue them before they’d get to our accountant. Now? Well we’re just worried about bringing them to the accountant.
But all in all, as long as it’s not like gross or anything – why do we care so much? Our house will never be as clean and perfect as others that I’ve been in, so I just will have to keep trying! And mostly just remember that it’s just all part of life.
The picture of the day is one that I took after a meeting that I had downtown. It’s snow coming off a building and it caught my eye. We’ve got our tax appointment tomorrow night downtown and I’ll check to see if it fell off by then. 
Snow coming off the roof on a building downtown
This is the front view