Really Good Advice

Someone once told me never buy a white couch.  I knew I could never have a white couch because I spill things all the time myself, and I like to be able to eat and drink on my couch if I want too.  So several years ago my mom helped me pick out this couch.  I really really wanted the teal colored one because teal was totally in style and it was so cute and my mom talked me out of it.  Which is good now because it would not have gone very well with the hand-me-down green recliner we just got.  And the whole room would somehow need to match it...and I would probably be sick of it by now and there is no way I could afford a new one.  So anyway, boring old goes with everything brown for me!  And microfiber!  Do you know you can get marker, pen, and even an entire coke out of microfiber?  It is the best friend of parents of children everywhere.  No more plastic on the couch Grandma, we have microfiber!

Everything is a mess.  Having two children has not been particularly difficult the way I thought it would be, but I have not yet figured out how to keep up on the house.  And I know a lot of people would just let it go but it seriously makes me twitch to sit there with a mess all around me.  Thankfully Bryce understands this and has been very helpful!  It also helps to have some pre-made meals in the freezer, no dinner clean up!

Yesterday I was finally feeling good about the house, I was getting caught up on things like laundry, vacuuming, dusting, cleaning out the lip inside the dishwasher.  And then we went to Costco, and they have these GIANT things of organic Applejuice made from Apples!  Not concentrate!  And I love it because Dietrich drinks applejuice like it's going out of style.  When we got home I left them on the stairs and we played and such.  So it was just before dinner, just as the kids were waking up from naps, and I was on the phone with Bryce when I decided to bring the juice to the kitchen.

There is a plastic handle that connects the two GALLON jugs to each other.  I usually have to cut the handle off because I cannot pull the juice out of the handle.  Just as I was lifting the juice onto the kitchen table one of the bottles broke loose, hitting the kitchen floor...it BROKE.  The entire GALLON of juice spilled all over the kitchen floor.  I didn't even know where to start cleaning up that massive mess.  All I could think was I was feeling caught up on the house and now this.

Somehow I managed to clean up all the juice with several bath towels, but the floor is still sticky.  There will be a lot of mopping taking place today I guess.  Good thing the floor needed cleaned up anyway.  So the good advice here is?  Never buy a white couch and make sure to buy a good mop.