So, I’m going to show you some cringe-worthy photos here in a moment. This portable outdoor charcoal grill was also cringe-worthy in my husband’s opinion. I’m really just sharing the photo to not start with the scary ones.
The story with the grill is that he bought it for me because I don’t care for hamburgers on the smoker. There is just something about a hamburger cooked over charcoal that smokers and gas grills don’t quite achieve. This portable, charcoal grill is what love looks like after 20+ years of marriage. The grill didn’t work very well though the hamburgers were still very good. However, I digress from the topic at hand.
If you’ve been following along, you might recall how I said the Flylady e-mails said this upcoming week was kitchen week. Still so many e-mails. Of course, I’ve not cleaned my e-mail out in a bit. I always plan to do it every week but it doesn’t always happen.
Anyway, I know I share a lot of outside photos of birds and flowers and random nature on here. There is a reason for that. It’s prettier than sharing the inside of my home. So, in an effort of realness….a scary one at that, I’m going to share the pictures I snapped of my kitchen this afternoon just after we had lunch.
Note, some are blurry as the motivation for the perfect photo is hard to find when snapping photos of a messy kitchen.
View from living room looking into the kitchen 
(Note this is also after our trip to Sam’s Club and Wal-Mart where we hadn’t put everything away yet) And now, the view from the other side. 
The weird half open shade thing is because they always pull one down when playing video games due to reflections from outside.
A Couple of Close Ups
We all know keeping the kitchen table clear is a struggle.
The bottom of the cleaning rack. Ironically, a place I planned to “neatly” store the cleaning supplies. And no, I have no idea why we have 3 fire extinguishers sitting there. Just need to find a place for them as I think I moved them to make room for something else and now I can’t remember what that was.
Shall we turn to the galley? This area is home to our appliances, the sink, and the counter tops.
Galley Kitchen View
Apologies for the blurry photo. The light was giving me fits of frustration.
In Focus Close-Ups
Yes, those biscuits are from this morning. Sometimes dishes get “lost” over there if I’m facing the sink cleaning things. And here’s the sink area, remember please, this was right after lunch. And yes, I did clean up a bit after the photo. However, it is still a bit of a mess. 
Hopefully, my cringe worthy photos showed you a real side of things around here and maybe even made you feel better about your home. Here let’s clear our minds of all the mess with a soothing fall photo of a random acorn on the deck table.
My plan for the series this week is to show my kitchen progress as I follow along with the missions for each day. Contingent, of course, upon my work schedule (showing the progress, not doing the missions. I do plan to do them no matter what).
For now, I’m off to clean out my kitchen sink for the night.
NOTE: This post is part of my 31 Days series, FlyBaby Reborn. Making a landing page for all the posts is on the list for this week. Meanwhile, for more information, find my first post in the series here.