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Okay, I am trying to post more things about me, and not always just about Austin. (Although when you have such a cute kid, it's hard not to post only about him! Plus, that is probably why most of you even look at my blog anyway.)



I have been busy trying to clean my house this week because we had our carpets cleaned this morning. I love having a clean house. Seriously...can't stand it to be a mess. I can't seem to get anything else done until the house is clean. (Side note: how on earth do you mothers with more than one child do it? I can't even seem to keep my house clean the way I want to now that I have ONE! It took me almost a full week to do what used to take me a couple hours!)

So, I have a huge pet peeve. I can't stand foot prints on freshly vacuumed carpet. I thought that getting the carpets (and couches that SO desperately needed it!) cleaned would make me so happy (and really it has), but I don't want to walk on them. The footprints I am leaving on the carpets now are 500 times worse than after I vacuum. You can even see everywhere the cat goes! I took a picture to try to show what I mean. It is kinda hard to see, but you get he idea.


Another confession: I am a germaphobe. Maybe it comes from working in the medical field, where you have to obsess over having clean hands and not spreading germs, or maybe I would be this way anyway! I have a seat cover for Austin that goes everywhere with us. I use it in the cart in every store and every restaurant high chair. That used to be enough to make me feel better about having my child sit in someone else's filth, until Austin leaned over and started sucking on the exposed part of the cart at Wal-Mart...of all places! So, I have now advanced to keeping a pack of Clorox wipes in the diaper bag. Seriously...I wipe down the exposed parts of the cart before I will put him in it. You can probably only imagine the looks I get from people as I stand in the entrance of the store wiping the cart down with a Clorox wipe and then pulling out my trusty ole seat cover. Oh, you ought to see it. I should get a picture of it!