Kitchen Towels

I have had people question my use in paper towels.  Yes, I use them, I use them more frequently than others.  If I dry my hands, I get a paper towel, and I may save it on the counter until the next time I use it. I do like to use sponges for cleaning up spills and regularly sanitize them. 

I would like to point out, I am SO not a clean freak.  Simon does about 80% of the cleaning in the house.  I can't quite figure out if it is because I am lazy or he is a clean freak.  He accused me the other day that our shower was turning into a camp shower.  Ummm, you SO know what he is talking about!  Literally the man just steam cleaned the dining room for the sake of it!

I stand firm and true though on my use of paper towels.  I have a drawer of black kitchen towels that I wash and use regularly as long as I pull it out of the draw and smell it first... you see, here is my dilemma.

A kitchen towel in this house is used for MANY things...  We have a towel rack on our oven and many a time one (and I use that term to identify anyone in the house other than ME) will grab that towel to clean up spills.  Whether they are on the floor, the counter, wherever.  Then if someone (ME) is not looking that towel gets placed back on the rack.  I have seen the towel be used for the floor, wiping a dog's foot, wiping a nose, and then put back on the rack.  I swear, I constantly am hiding towels so that they can be washed and not re-used dirty... But today takes the cake.

We have a ton of snow, and the girls were loading up the car to go to our friends house.  The garage door is up, and the car is running.  You know how dirty and wet a garage floor can get, well Lucy is getting loud and agitated in the garage and I go out to look....  There she is with a black kitchen towel  wiping up the puddles on the floor of the garage.  Yep, the garage door keeps dripping since it is up and she keeps getting annoyed that there are more puddles to clean.  With that, she storms in the house, puts the towel back on the rack and gets into the car.  On one hand you want to be proud (lord knows Simon is..)  since she is cleaning up puddles in the garage.  But of course, I can't help but shake my head, because there is the good old use full kitchen towel. 

And that is why I use paper towels.  Lord knows where that towel has been.


***  Earth conscious friends.  This is for humor purposes only.  I don't mean to offend anyone by not saving the world, one skanky towel at a time****

Brunch with Santa

We went to Brunch with Santa at the club last weekend and the girls LOVED it!  The food was fabulous as it is our favorite meal of the day!  Santa's attendance at the breakfast was of course the biggest hit!

Getting Ruthie to put a dress on was a large fight.  I negotiated with her a "cool" dress and the fact that I never make her wear what she doesn't want to wear and she could take one for the team by dressing up.

I told her that I wasn't like some moms and I don't make her wear huge frilly dresses with fake flowers and bows, and that I know she doesn't like to be girly so I chose a dress that fit her style.  I made her laugh by saying that there would be plenty of girls dressed like frilly princesses in dresses that I would NEVER make her wear.  I told her that whenever she saw a dress that was a little too girly and she was glad her mama didn't make her wear that she could look at me and wink.

I am pretty sure that most of the people at the brunch thought she had Tourett's ...  we definitely saw alot of girls in dresses she would rather die than wear.  Turned it into a fun game, and now, I think she may put that dress back on for Christmas mass. 

Thanksgiving

Is one of our favorite holidays to stay here and do nothing.  We were joined by our wonderful cousin Harper and had a lovely time doing nothing.  It was so much laying around doing nothing that no pictures were really taken.

Here is the girls and Harper in front of his welcome sign!

Here are some of our place cards for dinner, and the cards we made for people to write what they were thankful for.

The turkey's were toxic.  They actually had to be kept in the garage they smelled so bad.  So note to self, Styrofoam is an angry art supply that doesn't like to be painted with washable paint.  You would have thought I was trying to poison the house with the smell.  That and it only took 6 days for them to dry.  We painted them, and then left them in the garage for days, then we brought them out for dinner, and back to the trash.  I didn't want the girls to be discouraged and not use them but man, what a disaster!