We're dirty.

I just want to take a little moment to brag about myself and my husband right now.

I'll preface this post by saying that Chris and I are, admittedly, slobs. As much as we appreciate the value of a clean, organized home and we want to be neat, we let things get out of hand very quickly. This inevitably leads to a lot of petty bickering and finger pointing whenever one of us gets frustrated with the other's sloppy habits.

We've made and broken promises many times before about cleaning, vowing to change our ways after each fight, without any lasting results. But tonight ... tonight was different.

I came home and cooked dinner (a.k.a. pulled meat and vegetables out of a slow cooker and put it on a plate), then we ate it while we watched some Netfix. A typical night. But when we were done, I had this sudden urge to clean up before we binge watched the fourth season of Family Guy. Instead of leaving the dishes until morning, we loaded the dishwasher and put away the leftovers.

Then, we kept going.

Chris scrubbed down the counter and started rearranging the small appliances. I folded two weeks worth of clean laundry that had been sitting around the room in baskets. About 30 minutes later, we stopped to look around and realized, 'Huh. This looks WAY better than it did before. We should have just done this from the beginning.'

Dear God, please let this energy carry over into the rest of the week ... or our lives. I could finally catch up on other things I've been neglecting, like the toilet bowl and the carpets full of dog hair! (Too far? Sorry.) I plan on tackling the bedrooms tomorrow and the bathroom over the weekend.

I know this accomplishment is something that most normal adults have no problem with, but I'm not ashamed to admit that I think we rock right now. Baby steps. Take that, adulthood. Next thing you know I'll be doing my own taxes. (Not.) If we can keep this whole cleaning thing up, who knows what we'll accomplish?! World peace, probably.

(And you want to know the best part? I bet I burned a ton of calories doing it without even trying!)