Why am I bring this up? Simple, I was cleaning the downstairs bathroom. While I was doing it I started to noticed something funny about the way I was cleaning it. That's when it hit me. I'm doing what my sisters and I call the "Mami's Everyday Deep Cleaning". Laughing and shaking my head at myself. I started to remember helping her clean the apartment we grew up in and those weekly deep cleaning she had us all do. No one was speared from this. Mami had everyone cleaning something including walls and the molding on them. She would even move the stove, refrigerator and washer to clean behind and under them. How we hated Saturday mornings growing up. There was no such thing as getting up and watching morning cartoons. She would put on some music loud enough for our neighbors to hear. And that was our sign to get up and start cleaning.
Now that I have my own home and family, I'm grateful to her for insisting that we clean the way she did. I'm actually grateful for many things that she insisted that we do. Over the years I've taken that "Mami's Weekly Deep Cleaning" and changed to suit my life. I do a once a month deep cleaning and threw the week light cleaning here and there. Which is still funny to me because my weekly light cleanings may seem like heavy cleaning to many people. Light cleaning for me includes dusting, cleaning the bathrooms, wiping down the kitchen counters, followed by sweeping and mopping floors.
Well I better get back to my light cleaning because at the end of this month is the Monthly Deep Cleaning.
P,L & B
