"Spring Cleaning" from the Martin & Sylvia collection
Sparkle Stories Podcast
Lisabeth Sewell
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
This week's featured story comes from the Martin & Sylvia Collection. It's called "Spring Cleaning."
It's Spring Cleaning Day in Martin and Sylvia's house! But Martin and Sylvia would much rather get in the way than help. A little springtime fun with Sasha and Jonathan turns the tide and provides a little inspiration to join the effort.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Sparkle Friends. |
| 0:09.2 | Welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast. |
| 0:11.7 | So here in the United States in the Northern Hemisphere, it is spring. |
| 0:18.6 | It's technically spring. |
| 0:20.1 | And depending on where you are in the country, it might feel more or less like spring. It's technically spring. And depending on where you are in the country, it might |
| 0:23.0 | feel more or less like spring. This is true in Canada too and in the UK. Spring is here. And there's |
| 0:30.0 | a tradition here, at least in the United States, of spring cleaning that when the spring energy |
| 0:35.2 | comes, we like to clean out our homes and tidy our spaces. |
| 0:39.8 | And it feels really good. So we devote a whole week of Sparkle Stories to this idea of spring |
| 0:47.6 | cleaning, not only because it's nice energetically for us all to follow that impulse and get clean and |
| 0:56.5 | organize, but it's also nice to start a new routine as a family to help around the house. |
| 1:05.2 | So I'm a little motivated by both things. I have picked a story today called spring cleaning. You can tell I'm |
| 1:12.7 | talking to you adults as much as I'm talking to you kiddos. This is a Martin and Sylvia story. |
| 1:18.3 | And guess what day it is in their house? It's spring cleaning day. But Martin and Sylvia have |
| 1:23.6 | other things they'd rather do, but hey, what happens when friends come over and there's a little |
| 1:28.5 | fun and inspiration around this spring cleaning i think everyone should listen in and get inspired |
| 1:34.2 | in your own family to do a little spring cleaning before i play the story i want to encourage you |
| 1:43.9 | to subscribe if you're not yet a subscriber. |
| 1:46.1 | Join us. Super easy. You just go to the Sparkle Stories website at SparklStories.com and click the button in the top that says start free trial. |
| 1:56.6 | Then you get access to all of our stories, including the ones about spring cleaning. |
| 2:01.5 | And there are multiple ones about cleaning in this library, believe it or not, ones that families celebrate because of the impact it has on their household. |
| 2:09.9 | But you can listen into all of them. |
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