Eight steps, and things are better.

 Return to the kitchen with the breakfast things, the kitchen is in a bad way. The son had baked a cake in the night, something vegan according to the recipe page left on the worktop. There are half emptied packs of ingredients  on the work surface, none of the mixing utensils have been packed away at all.

First, put the breakfast things into the dishwasher.

Second, find all the errant cutlery in the kitchen and put it into the machine as well.

Third, gather all the empty packages and dispose of them, not forgetting to chuck the empty jam jars as well.

Fourth. gather as many of the dirty pots and pans and things and pack them away into the dishwasher.

Fifth search the flat for further plates and things.

Seventh, start the dishwasher and sweep the crumbs off the worktop

Eighth sweep the floor and clean the sink

Eight steps, and things are better.