Christmas Cleaning

Clean and Christmas just go together, don’t they? We clean so that we can decorate, and then we clean and remove containers after decorating. We clean before cooking delicious meals and baking, and then we wash the pots and pans until our fingertips turn into “raisins.” We clean before company comes and then vacuum and straighten the house when they leave., So much cleaning!  Our homes should be diamond-sparkly this time of year. (Remember the old Mr. Clean commercials?) Although our homes where people and pets live are rarely, if ever, spotless, we do like tidiness at holiday time. Before…