Deep Cleaning

It is fall break for the elementary boys, so they've been doing a good job and getting their chores and practicing done right away so they can go play with friends. Daniel, in particular, has done an over the top job. Yesterday I asked him to clean the bathroom. We cleared off the counter, wiped the sinks, then we noticed the beyond dusty lights. They were covered in dust. The bathroom was "clean" but we were going to do some "deep cleaning" now, which is cleaning things that don't need to be done daily, and that you sometimes don't notice, but over time they get dirty. We took them apart and washed them off. They were going to need new lightbulbs too, but I only had soft white, and we wanted daylight bulbs in here, so we'd run to get those at the store after we were done. 

Daniel really enjoyed seeing the difference. "I LOVE deep cleaning!" He said he wants to do deep cleaning for his household job everyday. That sounds great to me. This kid felt so much joy and satisfaction in this chore, that he even declared that he wants to be a maid when he grows up. That made me laugh, and I told him to probably have a different career, but that his wife, I'm sure, would love him to deep clean around the house. He said he would be my deep cleaning helper from now. Daniel has a pass to get one free ice cream cone at Maceys every week for a year (something he won at an ice cream eating contest during the macey's mascot's birthday party a few weeks ago) so we went for ice cream after we finished chores. Owen was off with friends, so it was me and DPK. 

Ice cream at Macey's - check. But they didn't have light bulbs. So we went to Home Depot next door.

The lightbulbs there seemed crazy expensive... yikes. $18 bucks? For a couple of lightbulbs? Is this thanks to Trump's tariffs? or just cause Home Depot is overpriced? I decided we'd go to Walmart. I did find some there - the walmart generic brand were 9 bulbs for $13. That was better. Back at home, Owen came back to babysit at 2 (we put on a movie for them) while Corey and I went on a ride to the ruins. The girls were on their way home, but we had to go earlier to be back in time before I had to take Owen to trumpet at 4:30. We pushed hard, and I had a goal to make it to the ruins before an hour, and we crushed it! We were at the top in 56:29. That's a killer new record! Previous time was 1:00:30, and the time before that I think was an hour and 2 min. Go team.   

At Owen's lesson, he looked a little pale and said yes, he was feeling weird. I could tell he was light headed so we had him to sit down and get his strength back. He started feeling queasy, I learned on the drive home, a couple of hours earlier after we showed him the video about John O'Leary, after Owen told us he and his friend Liam had been playing with fire at Liam's house - burning leaves in his garage. That made me think of O'Leary, who we learned about two years ago. He was burned when he was a young fun curious boy like Owen. Seeing the photograph at the :45 second mark stuck with Owen, so that's why he felt like fainting. Good to know that blood or gory stuff might make him faint. Fainting at blood runs on the Hibbert side, so yeah, it's good to find out who it affects. This is our first time knowing Owen has a tendency to faint.