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Is it possible to be in love with appliances? I know it’s one thing to like them a lot and to be thrilled with their performance but I really think I’m in love. Now, I’ve always been smitten with my rotisserie oven. I started off with the baby one and Santa brought me the big one for Christmas. I can’t tell you the number of people who have giggled and poked fun at me for having the “set it and forget it’ appliance. However, they sang a totally different tune when they ate the delicious moist chicken breasts. My turkey is a hit at Thanksgiving and I haven’t had a dry bird in at least 5 years. Oh, my. Then there’s the Dyson. What words to describe it other than pure sucking bliss. My latest is my Rowenta iron. It almost brings a tear to my eye just thinking about it. Will carefully unpackaged it and placed it lovingly on my ironing board for me. I didn’t say a word as I unplugged the old one and cast it aside. I used the water cup provided to fill the reservoir with tap water since it has a built in filter to block out impurities. I turned it on and switched it over to steam. The first thing I ironed was Miss O’s smocked bishop dress. It’s cotton and has all the pleats. Great first test piece. Oh..the creases for the pleats were phenomenal. Then I ironed my white cotton pants. One burst of steam and it was as if the wrinkles just jumped out. I swear it cut my ironing time in half. It wasn’t cheap and it took a lot for me to push the buy button but I’m glad I did. My mom has had one for years and I’ve doubled what this one cost on irons over the past few years always trying to get the best one for not so much money.
I heart my appliances.
Happy Father’s Day to all the wonderful dads we know.
This is one of the pics we had done today….. Nothing better than a daddy and his little girl
Since I’m a slack blogger, I’m going to use an old standby (again) of bullet posting to fill in with what’s been going on at the L household:
- Olivia is getting more and more fabuloso every single day. The conversations we have are gaining more and more substance and I’m digging it more and more.
- Her four favorite songs right now are (in no particular order) “Sweet Home Alabama (Dirty South version)” by B.A.M.A. (it’s the 3rd song on the link), “Baby’s Got her Blue Jeans On” by Mel McDaniel, “Baby Put Your Clothes On” by Tracy Byrd and “It’s My Life (the live version)” by Bon Jovi. Before you ask, we listen to the kiddy stuff too but this is what keeps her happy in the car. As long as it works, I’ll play them until my ears bleed.
- Speaking of Bon Jovi…O calls him Bons. You ask her who rocks? She says, “Bons.” You ask her who’s hot? She says, “Bons.” You ask her how hot? She replies with “sizzles” as she sticks her finger in the air and makes a sizzling sound. Yeppers. That’s my pre-K 80s hair band loving girl. Makes her momma proud (and her grandma cringe).
- She loves to sing and will tell you in a heart beat, “No, mommy. Jia Jia do it self.”
- She still has no desire to say Olivia but she refers to herself as Jia Jia regularly but responds to both equally.
- Her imagination is incredible. In her sand box she’ll make red beans (not sure where that came from, we don’t eat them) and broccoli soup. Great combo. She’ll bring her imaginary spoon up and ask you to taste it. She’ll say, “it needs salt.”
- She also has a mind like a steel trap. MONTHS ago she was with my mom and a bird hit the windshield. To this day she still says, “No, no bird. No hit car.” if she sees one flying near us or in front of us. She also tells the story about her daddy catching one on that was trapped on the back porch. Uses her hands to mimic the catching of the bird and releasing it and everything.
- She is still obsessed with school busses. Loves.loves.loves them and I’m not sure why.
- She has started telling me “Mommy pretty” when I’m getting ready to go out.
- Everytime she goes potty she thinks she’s supposed to brush her teeth. Probably because she spends half an eternity on the pot before she goes to bed so we have her brush her teeth to kill two birds with one stone.
- She gets mad if she can’t have a bath.
- She loves taking her gummy vitamin and reminds me if we forget it before we go to school in the mornings.
- She is obsessed with her Mickey Mouse Crocs. She loathed them at first but now she wants to wear them everywhere. They’ve become a negotiating tool.
That’s pretty much all about Miss O…so now on to the stuff you probably don’t care too much about…Will and me. There is still no more word on the deployment situation. It’s going to happen and it was a possibility he could have left in June but thank goodness those plans changed. Me? I’ve taken up golf. I have pink clubs and all. In an effort to get away from my desk at lunch, I’ve joined the Y in the town I work in and am working on getting buff 4 days a week and Wednesday has been my golf lesson day or I go to the driving range. Golf clubs are expensive! The golf pro tried to sell me on some fancy dancy clubs. My take on it is this: I could have the best car and be a crappy driver or I could have a beater and be the safest. If I learn to play good golf with inexpensive clubs, I have nowhere to go but up. AND that I am a reflection of him so he should probably help me learn to play good golHe nodded and then we headed to the driving range. Besides, I don’t want to put a lot of money in something I may or may not like. I wasn’t smart wise enough to start early in the spring or in the fall and it is HOT at noon. But, I go and I enjoy it. Yay me.
That’s about it for us. Nothing too exciting happening…one of these days I hope to get back into full blogging mode. I’ve only been saying that for a year but it may happen one day.
Oh, how true this is!
IF YOU GIVE A MOM A MUFFIN
If you give a Mom a muffin,
She’ll want a strong cup of coffee to go with it.
She’ll make herself some.
Her three year old will spill the coffee.
She’ll wipe it up.
Wiping the floor, she’ll find dirty socks.
She’ll remember she has to do laundry.
When she puts the laundry in the washer, she’ll trip over boots and bump into the box of Goodwill items.
Bumping into the Goodwill items will remind her she has to get these boxes in the car and out of her basement.
When she puts the boxes in the car, she’ll find a bag of groceries and this will
remind her she has to cook dinner.
She will get out the chicken defrosting in the fridge.
She’ll look for her cookbook (101 Things To Do With Chicken).
The cookbook will be sitting under a pile of mail.
She will see the Netflix movie she’s meant to mail and the preschool bill, which is due tomorrow.
She will look for her checkbook.
The checkbook will be in her purse that is being dumped out by her one year old.
She’ll smell something funny.
She’ll change the baby’s diaper.
As she finishes up, she’ll realize she brought the hand sanitizer down to the kitchen.
While she is throwing away the diaper and searching for the hand sanitizer, the phone will ring.
Her three year old will answer and hang up.
She’ll remember she wants to phone a friend not for coffee but a very strong drink. Thinking of drinking will remind her that she was going to have a cup of coffee in order to stay awake for the rest of the day.
And chances are…
If she finds her cup of coffee (which she has to reheat by now),
Her kids will have eaten the muffin that went with it.
