Rudolph's Remains

Day 2 ~ January 2, 2010

On to today! I had a moment of anxiety as I told myself it was day #2 and I had to find 10 more things! I quickly pushed the feeling aside and started scanning my surroundings.

1. There's the pesky Dryel bag that goes with the Dryel stuff I threw out yesterday!

2. What a shocker... more empty laundry soap/bleach bottles that hadn't made it to the garbage yet.

3. That broken foam sword had been hidden on my laundry shelf for at least a year collecting dust. The problem is, the boys don't see it as broken piece of trash... its just a shiv now!

4. Don't even get me started on the invention of magnetic letters. Yeah, it seemed like a good idea when I bought them, after all they are educational! I soon learned that the only eduction was being had by me learning how to repeatedly pick them up off the kitchen floor! I've had it! The kids can just wait until kindergarten to learn how to spell their names!

5. Air freshners... that require a refill. I bought those on one of my awesome coupon shopping trips and I knew I'd never spring for the refills, but I guess I was hoping they would still somehow take away the boy stench in my house!

6. What's so magical about Magic Bubbles? Is it that I can magically glide across my back patio right after the kids have dumped them out there? And then I can magically fall on my butt and a big black and blue mark appears?

7. How is it that a store that sells everything you could ever need to hunt and fish would not be smart enough to know that white glue is not going to dry in a matter of minutes? Seriously?! Those bags sitting in the middle of the floor are Rudolph's remains from a free ornament craft offered at the Bass Pro Shop. You see, there is no kid on this earth that would sit there and hold a piece of brown foam bent into a cone shape "glued" with white glue until it would actually hold on it's own. In fact, there's not an adult on this earth that would do it either! Sure, against all logic I did sit there with my boys for a short period of time holding onto Rudolph's brown foam head praying inside that it would hold... but before long I was shoving his eyes, antlers and shiny red nose into the bag and promising my boys we'd use the hot glue gun to put him together when we got home. Here you can see that didn't happen and therefore I must get rid of the evidence!

8. That Mickey Mouse hat may have started at the happiest place on earth... but it's not looking so happy now. It spent a fair amount of time on my husband's head while he did a number of things. I'm sure that disgusting brown stuff on there is a combination of grease, dirt, oil, grass and who knows what else! The Mickey hat also has friends in that box... they all got thrown out together so Mickey won't be so lonely.

9. How long would you hold on to an item of clothing that still had the tags on but you had never worn? That beautiful cream colored skirt has been hanging in my laundry room for a minimum of 2 years...

10. The skirt's friend... the vest and tie. Also still have tags on... also living in my laundry room for way too long!

Whew! Day two is done!