I always answer that one by saying Yes!  (in fact some days you could have a 3 course meal……)  My floors take such a beating between the mud and the food. The mud has been hard to curtail, living here, but the food you would think could be addressed. I have made a mighty effort to enforce the "no food outside the kitchen" rule.  It tends to go the way of the "No food between meals" rule – at least once mom tries to take a nap. : /  We are revisiting both rules these days so we can get prepared for any appraisals and whatnot that come with the eminent domain issue.

First step was scrubbing down the kitchen in the early hours this morning. Next was a coat of Quick Shine. I LOVE this stuff! Living in military housing for two decades made me familiar with just about every other hard floor cleaner. (govt housing is famous for its commercial tile flooring) Nothing really made the floors shine though.  I even used paste wax in one house. That made it slippery but not shiny and it needed to be stripped with ammonia in between which was no picnic. I am very pleased with the Quick Shine so far. Its quick AND it shines (go figure) and it seems to wash off again rather than leave a sticky mess.

My next resolution is to do some freezer cooking. Half the food mess is from preparation. In hopes of cutting that waaaaay down I am going to tackle some once a month cooking meals this grocery trip. The theory is I mess up the kitchen once versus daily. Now if I could just get the family to EAT once a month we’d be in really good shape lol!