the key to clean...

thanks to a very good friend of mine, i had three unexpected toddler-free hours today!  The baby slept during 2 1/2 of those three hours!  so, what did i do with my wide open sunday, you ask?!?    
i cleaned my kitchen floor!  
this doesn't sound nearly as exciting as it was!  this is one of those things that, weird as it may seem, totally soothes and relaxes me!  and today, i was able to do something i haven't been able to do in months (and months and months...) i actually got down on my hands and knees and SCRUBBED the grout between each tile.  and, not only did i successfully do this act in my 'spare' time, i actually succeeded in finding the white that lived under all of the dirt and grime that has been collecting there for oh so long.  don't get me wrong, i do my kitchen floors a lot- but i do them quickly, with a swiffer wet jet or something easy- enough to get the tiles de-speckeled.  but to actually get the grout  CLEAN- this was an accomplishment on so many levels.  because today i used two new products (cleaning products may have to have their own post, because i really could talk about them for hours!)  
But, today i used a grout cleaning tool and oxy clean!  who knew?!?  with little effort (although i ended up shredding the tool by the end), i actually got the grout lines white... this is amazing, because i have tried every product under the sun (pine sol, tylex, bleach, specialty grout cleaners, etc.) and nothing has ever worked like this- i swear!
okay, in thinking about what i've just written, i realize that this is probably only exciting to me, so i'll stop going on and on about my adventures in cleaning discoveries.  however, if anyone of you is looking for an amazing way to clean - use oxy clean!  i use it in my laundry, in the tub, sink, toilet, and now floors!  YAY!  "billy always says, it's not clean until it's oxy clean!"


okay, and now i am really done.  and someday i will actually get a life and find something a little more exciting to do with three spare hours on a sunday afternoon!  until then, i'm going to bed a happy and satisfied cleaner!!!