Cleaning is theraputic

When you are home all day with two toddlers, as naughty and hyperactive as mine, you need doses of energy supplements and pain relievers every now and then. And instead of popping half a dozen pills, you begin to explore solutions best available right around you. When I was single, meaning with no kids, shopping at a mall was the most effective means of beating my blues. Even getting a $5 trinket coupled with couple of hours of window shopping was best to get me in the best of the moods. Well with that being a luxury these days, I had to find other stress busters around the house. Lately I have realised that cleaning up and organizing household stuff had the same effect. Not necessarily scrubbing the floors or doing the dishes but simple stuff like organizing kids' toys in their bins, labeling them, organizing the closets, putting batteries in the toys, arranging books in the book closet, downloading photos from the camera onto the laptop and AppleTV and just simple things like that. Most of the stuff really takes 30 mins or less but at the end of the day there is a sense of having accomplished something. And again the rewards are in those countless genuine smiles that flash up when a dormant choo-choo gets going again or one of their favorite books that was misplaced for weeks shows up in the closet again.