I hope you had a great weekend! Around here we had our first taste of spring—warmer temperatures and a nice freshness in the air. Ahhh…it’s almost here.

I did a bit more spring cleaning this weekend, which wasn’t at all hard to do with the weather so spring-like. My focus was on the kitchen. I finished scrubbing the kitchen cabinets with Murphy’s Oil Soap and elbow grease. And then, I cleaned off the tops of the cabinets using my father-in-law’s trick of lining the cabinet tops with paper. So instead of dusting and scrubbing all that greasy, gunk that accumulates up there…you simply (and carefully) remove the old paper and replace it with new paper. Every time I do this project I want to hug that man. This trick saves so much time on an unpleasant cleaning project. It’s simple. I like simple.

I also changed this…

Winter welcome

to this…

Spring welcome

That’s better. Goodbye snow; hello flowers. I am ready for the real ones—pop up any time you’d like little flowers.

On Saturday I dropped off the tax documents, and picked up the corporate tax documents. Really happy to have that done—enough said. I also finished up laundry on Saturday which meant a laundry-free day Sunday. This gave me time to make a double batch of chocolate chip cookies with Kailea, and did I mention the windows were open? (Yum and yay!) I still need to finish the lesson but I’m happy to report I made some progress on it this weekend, with more to follow this week. All in all, a great weekend, one that was topped off by grilling chicken kabobs for dinner last night. Grilling! Hooray!

So it’s Monday—a great day to plan the week ahead. When’s on your to-do list this week—anything fun and exciting? Hope you have a happy Monday and a terrific week.