About the house

With 3 preschoolers and a dog, the floor gets dirty pretty quickly. There are a few levels of cleanliness to choose from:

1. Do nothing. Barefoot kids end up with black feet bottoms. Ick.
2. Sweep. This at least keeps big crumbs from sticking to the bottoms of bare black feet.
3. Wipe up spills with a baby wipe. This way, they don't get smeared around and add to the palette of colors on the bottoms of feet.
4. Use a Swiffer-type mop. This is basically a baby wipe on a stick, and unless you use a lot of the disposable pads, you really are just smearing the dirt around. However, the floor will look cleaner (which is important if people are coming over) and the dirty foot bottom symptoms will be lighter.
5. Get out the bucket and really mop. Our mop has a scrubby brush thingy on it so I can really get out the gnarly spots. For maximum effectiveness, no children or pets should be present during this process. Which is why I end up getting to it at midnight.

If I'm really good, I combine Option #5 with Bath Night, thus ensuring at least a day of clean little footies.

You may ask why it's me doing the mopping and not our SAHD, who is usually asleep by midnight.
But that's another post.