it's not a good idea to go overboard cleaning the house, vacuuming & mopping the floors and generally knackering myself BEFORE a visit from 5 under 4 year olds??!! And then a couple of plumbers coming in and out in rainy weather??!!

My clean house!!! There are cake crumbs mushed into the rug, hand prints on my freshly painted walls and my spotless floors are covered in mud & chocolate icing!!

Oh well, it doesn't matter in the scheme of things, but it was lovely for about 30 secs! And then life happened!