Cleaning Rice off the Floor

I absolutely LOVE being a Mommy. One day during the first week in our new home I came down the stairs and was hit by the sudden certainty that this was all I wanted, to stay home and care for my family. My family is little, just my husband, me, and our daughter, and our house is little too, but I love them all, and love taking care of them all - the family more than the house of course! I am also thrilled that taking care of our house is now done out of a desire to bless my family, and not paranoia (see here, and I cannot find where I talked about the desire to return to caring for our home out of a desire to bless my family, and not paranoia while it is on the market!)

One of the big challenges I face as a Mommy is managing Miss Pear's allergies to nuts and potatoes. It means we eat a fair bit of rice as side dishes! However, our daughter is 25 months, so rice ends up on the floor! And cleaning rice off floors can be a real pain!

Then we discovered the cheater method!

1. Leave cleaning the rice up off the floor until the very last part of your kitchen clean up (this allows it to dry a bit).

2. Put the broom down! Put the rag down! Pick up your dust pan!

3. Run the dust pan across the floor to "herd" the rice all together.

4. Put your dust pan right against the pile of herded rice, and use your broom to hold the rice in place while you scoop it with the dust pan.

5. Dump in garbage!


As long as you keep the dust pan right against the floor, you will have no more squished rice on the floor! And before you give me any credit, it was my husband who figured this out!