What's that yucky smell??
Okay, so I have a few posts waiting to be finished and published, but they'll have to wait.
We have some distasteful smell wafting from our kitchen/breakfast room and laundry room. I sort of smelled something yesterday and thought it was the trash. After taking out the trash, Febreeze-ing the air and trash can, and letting a candle burn all day, I thought the smell was gone. However, this morning Libby came in my room (I got to sleep in a little since we're having an inclement weather day!) to ask, "Mommy! What's that yucky smell?" (This a question she asks several times daily. She seems to have inherited my sense of smell which is fun when it's on overdrive during pregnancy.) I walked out of my room to find The Smell had intensified and overtaken the house. Nice.
My solution:
- kick the dog out (I do feel a little bad, but she's been inside almost non-stop for the past 2 days and the sun's out melting all the ice. Fine. I'll let her back in after step 2.)
- clean, clean, clean (Good news! I have my 6-year-old home and I'm not above child labor.)
- light a stronger candle
- bake cookies (The Smell might or might not be the real reason for this one.)
- hope The Smell is gone by the time Bryan gets home from Houston later today (We've really missed him and there's nothing that says "Welcome Home" like a freshly cleaned house with a good smell).
And, if none of that works, we may have to bundle up and open all the windows to air the place out.
I better get busy and I'll be back later or tomorrow with one of those other posts.
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