Hi, guys. Welcome back to my channel. In today's video, I'm going to be sharing with you our
evening cleaning routine. I asked you on Instagram what you would like to see, and the majority
of you said an evening clean. We've actually had quite a messy day because we spent a lot
of time at home, so we've had the paints out, puzzles, so many toys. I'm going to show you
how I tidy it all up, as well as the general cleaning tasks that I do every evening. I
really like to leave the house clean when I go to be because there is nothing better
than coming down in the morning to a clean house.
I hope you really enjoy this, I'm just going to start out by cleaning up all of the paints.
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adding me on Instagram, I would also love that. I post all the time, and I'd love for
you to be part of that community as well. Yes, I'm just going to tidy up all of the
paints. Jackson is getting so creative, and he really enjoys painting. He particularly
likes painting rocks, so it goes everywhere. But that's quite easy and quick to clean up.
He's also getting quite into puzzles at the moment. We bought this pack of puzzles, it
was 10 Paw Patrol puzzles from the Works. We've had all of that out today.
Our five year old Caleb is really into coloring. He's often sat here at the table, coloring
away. I used to put all of the coloring books and pens away every single night, but I was
finding that I was just getting them out so often, I now kind of just tidy them up where
they are, and leave them there. I recently revamped the kids' pen caddy. I
spray painted it a metallic rose gold. You may have seen how I did this in a recent day
in the life, but I'm really pleased with how it turned out. Goes with the décor a bit
more. But now I'm also going to wipe down our table.
I've talked about this so many times before, but people still ask me. We had this piece
of glass cut to fit the top of our table because our actual table was getting damaged itself.
I think it was about 100 pounds to get this piece of glass, but it was so worth the money
because it has totally saved our table. It's really easy to wipe down, and, yeah, it just
feels a bit more protected and it has like a really nice finish to the whole table. Now
that that's all clean, I'm just going to put all of that back, and that is the table area
all done. Once the boys are finished dinner, as part
of their chores, they need to just scrape off their plates and then put them into the
dishwasher. They're both really good, it's become just a habit to them, so that's great.
Then, once they've done that, they're all going to go outside and play, and I am going
to tackle the rest of the kitchen and get everything else into the dishwasher and washed
up. (singing)
I just wanted to chime in here and say that I did notice what the boys were doing, they're
climbing up on the counter behind me and trying to get the cookie jars for their pudding.
I spotted them in the view finder, and I did end up helping them. But just then, I was
washing up all of the kids' cups, I find that they don't always get as clean as I'd like
in the dishwasher, so I tend to always wash them by hand and always have done. We have
just got a new dishwasher, though, so maybe I will try them in that and see how they come
out. But let me know what you guys do when it comes to kids' cups and Tupperware and
stuff for the kids. But now, I'm just going to wipe down all of
the surfaces and the stove, it's a little bit messy from where we were cooking dinner.
I always feel like once I've washed down all the surfaces, the entire room feels clean.
As you know, we have a mirror splash back, and this little section of it does tend to
get like splashes on it from cooking, so I'm also going to give that a really quick wipe.
It literally takes me seconds, and then run around and do the rest of the surfaces and
the sink as well. (singing)
I'm just quickly cleaning up the toys because the boys have gone up to the bath. Normally,
I would get the big boys to help me or put on a song, and we'll all run around and tidy
up the toys, but all of this mess was pretty much Jackson's today, so I didn't feel like
I needed the big boys to clean up the mess because it kind of wasn't theirs. Also, they
were getting really tired. It has been a hot day, and I just wanted to get them into the
tub, but I feel like people are going to say, "Why aren't your kids helping?"
But anyway, while they're in the bath with Matt, I'm also going to take the laundry out
that I folded today and the stair basket as well. In the stair basket is normally things
like makeup, toothbrushes, and clothes. I tend to bring those things down in the morning
if I quickly need to brush the kids' teeth, and I ended up doing my makeup downstairs
with Jackson this morning. Then, I'm going to empty the bins because
they were getting pretty full. I so wish I could do that and multiply myself. Then, I'm
going to try and put away some of the laundry that I've brought up. Excuse some of the camera
angles here, I was filming one-handed and putting away one-handed because I had the
opportunity. My husband was putting my middle son to bed, and then my eldest was reading
a story to our youngest. While they were occupied, I was like, "Quick, put some T-shirts away
while I'm in the room watching them." His drawers were still kind of Marie Kondo-d,
but I probably could do with redoing them. Then, once all the boys are in bed, this is
probably at about 8:00 PM, I am going to run around and vacuum. Sometimes I can do this
while they're all awake and once they've just finished dinner, but tonight, I just didn't
get a chance. It definitely needs to be vacuumed because there's crumbs and there was a few
splashes there as well that I needed to wipe down.
Yeah, I'm just going to run around our main living room. There's like bits of sand, bits
of crumbs and stuff. I'm just going to make sure I get all of that up, but the floor wasn't
in need of a mop tonight, so I didn't do that. Then, I also wanted to show you our little
calendar that I have on the wall. I never show this because I don't want anyone to see
the events on it, but because I've just changed it over to July, I just took a little bit
of time tonight to fill in anything that the kids have coming up at school, like sports
days, parties, all of that. This is where I keep it, and it's a great place to have
it and like reference it all the time. Then, I'm going to shake the rug out, outside,
put it back, and then make sure that the dishwasher is full up. I tried to shove this cup in and
it didn't fit, so I was like, "I'm going to wash that by hand." But yeah, this is our
new dishwasher. So far, so good. But I'm going to fill it up, and then I'm going to turn
that on. Then, I'm also going to put on a little bit
of laundry as well. I had a load in there of whites, so I needed to swap that round,
put that into the tumble dryer, and then I also wanted to wash our throw. I have this
really furry throw that the kids love, especially in the morning. They'll come down and cuddle
with it. But because of that, it gets dirty all the time, and the tag does say dry clean
only. But once I was just like fed up of all the mess, and I tired to wash it, and it was
actually fine. So, I'm washing that tonight. That is all the cleaning that I'm going to
do today. I'm just going to hang some of that washing out. It's about 9:00 now, so some
of you will know why I finished at 9:00 because I want to go and watch Love Island. But the
house is nice and tidy. I sleep better when it's like this, as sad as that sounds.
But yes, I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you so much for watching. I'll see you in
my next one. Bye, guys.