I finally decided that today was the day that the house had to get cleaned. I was going to start upstairs in the boys bedrooms, then come downstairs and send the  boys upstairs (safety gates are a blessing in a 2 story house).  I cleaned the toy room, knocked down spider webs, sorted some things for donation, took down my quilt hanging on the wall to wash it. And then, half way through vacuuming the boys bedroom my gosh darned vacuum cleaner quit. It just stopped running. I checked the plug, made sure I hadn't tripped a breaker or anything like that. Then decided that I had burnt the motor on the thing. So I called my mom, laughing b/c just last week she bought a new very expensive vacuum cleaner and I had been thinking of teasing my hubby about buying one for me (we only have carpet in the boys bedrooms & rugs downstairs - there isn't alot of vacuuming in our house). So my mom very happily & graciously (are those words to use when vacuuming your house?) brings her new expensive vacuum up to my house, I thought I was getting the old yucky one to borrow for awhile.  So I called hubby and told him what had happened, after a few under-his-breath 4 letter words he laughed at it too, but told me I couldn't buy a new vacuum cleaner yet (he didn't want me buying this vacuum cleaner 5 years ago when we moved into this house, he thought our old one was still good - but he isn't the one that vacuums, I AM!)  So it's the end of the day, or almost anyway, I have a Tupperware party at 4pm so my day is done basically, and I called hubby to get tortillas for dinner b/c the boys ate the last three for a snack after their naps, and he asked me if he could get tortillas at the vacuum cleaner store. He thought he was going to have to buy me a new one today, after telling me I couldn't buy a new one  - what's the reasoning behind that, dear daddy's who read these blogs?  The house is cleaned for another week, and I'll resort to using my little dirt devil hand vacuum for any spot cleaning until I find something new.  Bye bye for now, time to shop in the Tupperware catalog, I wonder if they have vacuum cleaners?!!!