Things I'm Excited About

I thought I would take a moment to share a few of the things that I am very excited about. Travis apparently made a vow to himself that he would never by his wife a household appliance for a holiday so he bought them for me after Christmas instead. The above may look like just a vacuum but I believe this invention is going to change our quality of life. When we moved in I was very excited about having Mexican tile because I thought it was pretty but at that time I did not know how hard it was to clean. Now this may sound horrible to you clean freaks but in the days before Zion I really did not clean my floor too many times. But, now this just won't do with Zion splattering gooiness everywhere from her highchair and because of the fact that she crawls on and sometimes eats off the floor. To get my floor clean before I have tried everything from swifers to industrial type mops like I used when we worked on the janitorial staff at my college and nothing worked except scrubbing on my hands and knees (yuck!). Even the special slop mop technique from my janitorial days did not work.

So somehow Travis came across this machine. Not only does it clean my tile nicely with limited effort on my part which is a miracle in and of itself. It cleans the laminate floors in the bedrooms, the tile floors in the bathroom and it vacuums (yes vacuums) my big area rug better than my regular vacuum. I LOVE this thing. My floors look better than I think they have since we moved in. It spits water with soap in it, scrubs, and then sucks the water back up and you can just suck up the big pieces including Cheerios that I find everywhere. This thing gives us cleaner floors with less work and now I only need one thing instead of 3 brooms, 4 mops, a scrub brush, bucket, 2 floor cleaners, and a vacuum. I live in a condo and I don't have room for all this stuff. So yeah!

The second thing is the refrigerator. If you have been to visit you may have heard the purring (or should I say roaring) of our vintage fridge from 1978. It is the original one that was put in here...and that thing has just kept on working. Over the past couple of years the noise it made changed from endearing to obnoxious and as it would stop roaring it would make a CLANK CLANK CLANK which began waking Zion up from her nap. At one point it leaked water all over and we excitedly investigated it thinking we could lay it to rest but alas it was just the water line that had died of old age so we could not use the ice maker. The inside had parts that were rusted and the freezer did not like ice cream (it was half frozen at all times). Some people that knew me in high school have likened my fridge to my first car in high school which my friends (affectionately called the airplane due to the roaring noise it made when your tried to go up hill). So if you missed out on the specialness of the old fridge sorry its too late. I emptied it out and filled the new one and it looked empty because there is so much more room and much better lighting. I can actually see what is in the fridge. We have nice glass shelves instead of rusted wire and the gallon of milk fits in the door. Many of you may have been putting your gallon of milk in the door for some time but to me this is a novelty and very exciting. AND the house is now so quiet I almost miss the old friend (okay not really).