What If...

What if I spent two hours a day (while my kids are at VBS) cleaning my house?  I bet within a week or less it would be pretty clean and I would feel a lot less stress about it and could relax and enjoy the rest of the summer.  Maintaining takes a lot less time and is much less intimidating.  After a very busy month finishing up school and having company I am feeling pretty disgusted and overwhelmed with my house.  It feels like there is soooo much to do that I couldn't possibly ever get it done.  I just had the thought though that if instead of looking at the whole I just took it on 2 hours at a time.  Next week my kids will be at VBS for 5 hours Monday thru Thursday.  If I used two of those hours every day to work I could still have almost 3 hours of R and R.  So, that's my plan, starting tonight.  I had a late nap and a little caffeine so I'm getting a head start tonight working on getting the living room decluttered and cleaned.  I just cleaned the dust off the books on one of my shelves and rediscovered some great books that I need to read and reread.  I have 4 by Edith Schaeffer that I just love.  She is the wife of Francis Schaeffer and together they ran L'Abri.  She is a very wise woman and writes about homemaking.  I also found the journals that I used to write in during my kids' baby years.  I think I'll add an entry to each of them this summer.  Well, I need to get back to cleaning.  Maybe in a week I will be sitting in a clean, halfway organized (who am I kidding?) house.  Think I can do it?