2nd Round of Cleaning & Modesty- What do they have in common?

I'm laughing at the title. Really. It makes me think of the names of some of the session titles at the homeschool conference I went to week before last.
  Anyway, I know, I know. I'm a bad blogger. I do things, hear things, think of things, and say 'Oooh I want to blog about that.' I don't take pictures. Sorry. I'm just a bad blogger.
  So Cleaning and Modesty. What do they have in common? Clean people are more modest? No I doubt it.. could be... who knows.
   I'm hitting round 2 of Cleaning & Organizing my house. (In short, I have 1 room per week (I do both bathrooms on the same week) that I completely gut. I move all the furniture, dust, wash curtains, windows, you name it. Go thru drawers, closets.) I felt like getting started a little early, like a technical hour early. I had all the kids in the bed, and I always wait up for the hubby to get home from saving the world, one pizza at a time.
   This week is Kaylor's room. Kaylor is girly & frilly. She LOVES tutus. I'd been looking into some other thing to pass onto a family member, and one of the solutions that kept coming up, was how does your teen or tween dress? Too revealing? Too old? She's at the age where I can nip it in the bud. And what kind of role model are you?
  Honestly, I don't care what I wear. I don't know that I'll move to wearing floor length skirts all day every day anytime soon, but you have to practice what you preach. Be the change you wish to see. So I took my 3 2 piece bathing suits and put them in my yardsale-(actually my sister took them. Next time I will know to THROW them away. I'm not trying to force my morals on others, but I will inevitably see them and think 'oh I loved that bathing suit.') I don't really wear spaghetti strap tops- I have a couple that I wear around the house. I'll get to that in a minute.
  I don't wear short shorts, and I hate belly shirts so we're good. I do love my tank tops though. I work out. Have to have my tank tops. I'm still working on this people! We do have some ladies who wear skirts come in to work out. They aren't cycling or doing yoga but they do come in to work out. Yay for them.
  So I started in Kaylors room, and first got rid of all the 2 piece bathing suits. Well almost all. One has a matching swim shirt with it, and it's also her favorite. I know. I know. And another that's a tankini. Anyway, then a couple of pair of short shorts went away, then a couple of short skirts. I decided to let her keep her tutus- for now. As long as she wears leggings with them.
  Also, why is it okay for me to wear spaghetti strap tops around the house and not her? There weren't alot of spaghetti strap tops anyway. She won't notice. But then that defeats the purpose. A talk with her is coming up.

Cleaning the Kitchen

 At the beginning of the year, I got onto this blog for a weekly, yearlong challenge to organize my house. I felt pretty organized already, but I knew there is always room for improvement and I might learn something new.
 Every week I was eager for the challenge and completed them fairly quick. Some weeks were easier than others. Some things I already had a good system in place and didn't see the need to modify it.
  Eventually I kinda branched off on my own and in an attempt to de-clutter my home, developed a schedule for 'gutting' each and every room in my house.
  When I say 'gutting' I mean touching everything. In bedrooms for example I go thru all the drawers, getting rid of what I don't use, relocating items that serve no purpose in that room (ie: all the notepads I had crammed into the vanity in my room- I don't write in there, so those were relocated.) I wash the windows inside & out, curtains, move all the furniture and dust & vacuum behind/underneath it etc.
  I've wound my way thru the house and have arrived at the kitchen. The kitchen is a room that's cleaned regularly, so it won't be too hard.
  Infact the 52 week challenge that I started at the beginning of the year started in the kitchen, so it's already in decent shape. Drawers have been purged and organized. As have the cabinets.
  My ultimate goal in my kitchen is to get the tops of my upper cabinets cleaned off. A smart designer would have designed cabinets that went all the way to the ceiling, in my opinion. I have about 12" of space that collects dust & cobwebs. And junk.
  So that's what I am doing this weekend. Finding other places to store the 'junk' that make more sense than on top of my cabinets.