30 minutes of lifting: I go through periods of time I think where I feel like life is beyond my control and therefore to cope, I usually clean. In fact, my colleagues know that my classroom is never the cleanest so when they saw my apartment this week they both looked at me and said, "Your husband must be the neat one." And he responded, "Nope. not me." 

Tonight it was about 1:00 in the morning and because I had fallen asleep earlier, I cleaned quite literally everything. I cleaned our fridge, I cleaned and sorted our pantry. Today I plan on cleaning the floors and vacuuming and dusting and perhaps going over the floors with a mop and some cleaning liquid. 

Sometimes when the world is chaos, you need a clean space. That's what I'm feeling right now- a clean space to clean my soul and allow me to pretend to think that things are pretty status quo. 

I think if anything we need to all take time to clean ourselves mentally, physically and spiritually. Perhaps clorox wipes are not your thing, but reading may be or playing music for therapy sake or learning something new you have not considered before. Cleaning is a good thing in the midst of hardship. And even though we are all stuck at home, sometimes just cleaning makes your life chapter seem just a little bit different.