Cleaning, cleaning and more cleaning

First, I'd like to apologize for not having any pictures to share.

Yesterday we went up to the cottage with John's parents and spend the day cleaning, changing locks, washing all the stuff for the kitchen & putting it away, and building the bed frames.

Since the pictures would be of closed cupboards, a nearly-empty living room and beds with no mattresses on them, we figured to hold-off on the pictures until next time we're up there and have actually stuff in the rooms.

It was nice to get in there, have it be empty, almost like a fresh start, so we can start to make it our house.  I didn't realize how much kitchen stuff we had until Martha and I got done washing everything and putting it away in the freshly-cleaned cupboards.  The good news is we still have lots of cabinet space for, what I am sure, are the countless things I forgot we needed and won't remember until I'm about ready to cook something.  Or more accurately, John is about to cook something.

So next time we're going to take another load up and see if we can't get it looking more like a house that's lived in.  Who knows, we might actually spend the night this time.  :)