FOURTEEN DAYS OF VALENTINES: DAY ONE/ APRONS, GARTERS AND NAKED HOUSECLEANING?

             Sorry it has been a loooong time since we have posted. I (kim) have been under the weather with asthma and the inversions here in Salt Lake Valley make it actually life threatening. I have been put on a more aggressive daily regime so we will see if it works for me. In the mean time I must say my crazy little crew has been super FANTASTIC at keep the household going.....My husband has FINALLY after all of these years started cooking some of the meals. I am not sure if he finally just has the confidence or after all this me being sick has got him thinking if he doesn't he might just starve to death. Anyway It has been a blessed relief to have willing hands.Maybe all my years of "training" have finally paid off.......So you MOMS out there who are still in training mode(and wives too), PLEASE STICK TO IT!!! I promise you with loving patience IT WILL BE WORTH IT IN THE END!!!!!! ..................................I PROMISE!!!!!!!!!



Now on to better things. I have been making a few aprons for swap items and I thought I would count them as my count down to Valentines Day day One. So I think aprons are the perfect Valentines Day item. Want to know WHY? Well here is a rather personal disclosure so if you don't want this image in your head .........DON"T and I repeat DON"T read ANY FURTHER...................I am dead serious now! I mean it!


Okay so here it is. My hubby and I have never had a lot of money, well none really. But we DO HAVE extremely creative minds and both of us could not care a fig about what others think of us(partly because both of us are on the heavy side and people can be so cruel and evil in their attitudes toward people like us. I have actually been spit upon on more than one occassion in public and called a pig by strangers. But that is for another day.)..........Our prepincity toward the creative side and not caring about public opinion can be both freeing and lead to some fun adventures ......Let me tell you !!

           So in the ROMANCE department we have always had to be creative since lack of money rules and since we got married with a 5 year old in tow, and a very precocious one at that.............Trying to sneek around and engage in normal honeymoon and early marriage activities was quite the challenge I must say!.....If you have more than one then by nature  they distract from the attention being on you. And if you ever have a Normal two person honeymoon period with no children, count yourselves the luckiest people on the face of the earth.......To say finding opportunity and place to be ALONE brought our creative juices flowing.....Trying to outsmart a 5 year old child can be one of the biggest challenges of my poor old little brain that G-d could have invented. If you have a precocious 5 year old you KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I MEAN!!!!!!!

         So occassionally we could get someone to take her for half a day....(few and far between but greatly appreciated) and of course we want to do FUN THINGS and of course as always NO MONEY. So we turned our lemons into lemonades.........It has also become an annual event either on Valentines day or on Our Anniversary........Okay so here it comes if you DON"T WANT THOSE BAD PICTURES IN YOUR HEAD ADVICE IS ....................STOP READING NOW!!!!!

      

So our Day One Valentines Day advice and Idea is this:

                   Try naked housecleaning.   Yes you heard me right. NAKED HOUSECLEANING!!!
Get rid of the kids or any other hanger on'ers, others in your house for the day. Make sure you have good curtains or blinds on all the windows. Find a hot and sexy APRON(or make one it can be cheap and easy to do), STOCKINGS and GARTER(you know the proper kind with garters and such, not those modern torture devices they have the gall to call pantyhose when they should be called EVIL). A great pair of comfortable HIGH HEELS that are hot. And of course A FEATHER DUSTER and other assorted cleaning items. And as the years have gone by a SEXY BRA has been added to the mix(once those gals start to end south there is no stopping them) So I guess in our older fart mode we should probably call our endevour "LINGERIE HOUSECLEANING." Anyway....And a plan.......Don't get me wrong we clean not just have "FUN"......My man KNOWS a clean house makes me HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY.....And that makes him HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!!!!..............Of course be careful what cleaning activites you engage in, as some could be dangerous. Like the year we thought we would lay some hardwood flooring, SPLINTERS ARE JUST NOT SEXY!  KWIM!!!

                 And ladies I don't want to hear the excuse that you could NEVER do this cause you don't have the body for it....Please! I have like the worst body in the entire world. Anybody who knows me can vouch for that.......But I am not letting it stop me! I lived alone for far too many years not  to value and appreciate what I have in my man. If he wants to look at it (my body) in all it's old wrinkly, fat glory and he still has the hots for me then I'm going for it and so should you!!!!! If you have someone who loves you ,don't deny them because of your insecurities or what you think society says is right or wrong as far as desire and body size goes. JUST COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS AND GO FOR IT!!!!!


In the next post we will show some lovely aprons you can make easily to help you in your NAKED HOUSE CLEANING quest.................Happy Valentines Day and just cause your broke does not mean you cannot have fun......And find a code word for your little secret, so you and your lover can talk about it throughout the year without others knowing what your really talking about......Maybe "DOING LAUNDRY" or "HAPPY CLEANING"......Anyway have fun this Valentines Day and don't ever let an empty wallet stop you from being creative and enjoying your marriage..........

                                                                       Love Kim Cherrine-Bell