Ahhh Christmas. It was great this year at our house! A new daughter-in-law, soldier boy home for two weeks, a little more time with our oldest son and his wife all added up to a great holiday.
However, when they all left the cabin on the Saturday after Christmas, Mike and I were left with the mess, the trash...and the smell! I literally spent the whole day Saturday cleaning up. Mike took 13 bags of trash to the compactor down the canyon! Then he escaped to Alamogordo to do some food replenishing (boy, can they all EAT) and I put Christmas away, stripped beds, found left behind socks, did a LOT of laundry and collapsed.
When Mike got home we vacuumed, mopped and re-arranged the furniture back to the pre-Christmas arrangement, missing the kids the whole time. However, we did reflect on a few things. First, no amount of potpourri, candles, Febreeze or those little waxy-melty things could overpower the smell of feet (among other things) in the cabin.
Second, when do boys stop smelling? Our sons are now in their 20's...so when do they start smelling good? Mike smells good all the time. We are pretty sure that about the time our boys start to smell good, they will have babies and we start all over with the smell! The girls were just as messy but they smelled better.
We sat in our quiet, clean cabin (that smelled faintly of Fabuloso) on Saturday night, reflected on the events of the week, missed our kids and relaxed. Another Christmas is over, the New Year has begun and we are praying yours is fantastic!
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