Do you have an unbelievable amount of renewed energy to clean and organise your house when you arrive home from a vacation? For me, the first days after returning home from a long trip away is really the most efficient time to get the house scoured clean and all those nagging little house jobs done. It usually starts within an hour of opening our front door and lasts anywhere from 2-3 days.
Shortly after arriving home from Belgium last week I could be found re-organising and scrubbing inside kitchen cupboards which haven’t been touched since, well, I don’t even want to say.
In the following days I emptied the fridge of all the out-of-date salsa and chutney. I organised and classified the entire book shelf. I swept the ceilings of all the cobwebs and who knows what. I even hand washed the pot holders. And it felt so so good.
I can’t really explain why I do all this but I’m happy I do. At no other time do I have the motivation and physical energy to scrub bathroom grouting with a toothbrush or re-fold my entire linen cupboard. Sometimes I even think about planning a trip just for the return and the rampant cleaning of my house.
So here I am at home for the rest of the summer in a beautifully clutter-free and sparkling clean space (should last a few minutes, no?) and ready to pass the next month with my three children at the lake, on the forest trails or simply lounging around at home reading or baking or sewing. Oh, and drinking LOTS of cold lemonade…
