No "Cheer" for laundry detergent all over the basement carpet
Yesterday, on my drive home, I received a phone call from home. Usually the 5:30p call comes to check my ETA. Frequently I can hear the screams of wild, hungry, tired children in the background which largely drowns out the slightly contrived, calm voice of my wife. 5:30p is a difficult time at our house. However, yesterday I was greeted with the following:
"I AM ABOUT TO....AWWWRG!!! OH MY GOSH...IT IS EVERWHERE! WHAT IS GOING ON??? THESE KIDS...DAVID...I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS...
and so on and so on. No kids in the background; kind of an eerie, silent backdrop...
Coming from a long line of worriers (thanks Mom) I immediately had visions of bloody smears, severed limbs, and limp adolescent bodies, no doubt the result of unsupervised experimentation with kitchen machinery or some dangerous, yet curiously fantastic tool in the garage. However, it turns out that kitchen machinery and woodworking tools pale in comparison to laundry detergent. That's right, Ella (3) and Wyatt (1) decided to build sand castles all over the basement carpet with laundry detergent.
At first Ella blamed it all on Wyatt (naturally), however the guilt eventually got to her and she fessed up. Prior to seeing the mess, I assured Sara (my wife, the frantic one mentioned above) that I would take care of the clean up, which I did, with a vacuum in about an hour's time. I am happy to report that all of the detergent came up out of the carpet, and our basement now has a fresh, spring scent which deceptively smells like laundry has been recently done.
I wonder what today's 5:30p call will be...
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3 comments:
yeah...I thought my head was going to explode! Thanks so much for cleaning it up, you are the BEST!!! I love you.
If i had a basement - I would want it to smell like fresh laundry! Can you bring your kids over sometime!? haha. FUN TIMES
sorry, that is funny! (but no doubt Sara if I was in your shoes I would have been swearing and on the phone with Sean doing the exact same thing!)
Thank heavens it all came out. Will you take your kids to the beach or something now!
I'm glad that I found your new link. I was a bit irritated at the old blog that was NEVER updated :)
We miss you guys!!!
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