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([personal profile] persephone33 Aug. 14th, 2007 09:24 am)

So I spent the better part of yesterday cleaning; it involved a bucket, rubber gloves, and me on my hands and knees.
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(Our play today takes place in the master bedroom, wherein Carrie is scrubbing the funk off of the baseboards.  Aaron enters left.)

Aaron.  (Pulls a face)  What're you doing?

Me.  (indignant that he doesn't recognize the act of removing dirt from random surfaces)  I'm cleaning, A.J.

Aaron.  It smells weird.

Me.  (mildly corrects the child) It smells clean.

Aaron.  Well, clean smells weird. (Aaron exits left, to find a part of the house where dirt reigns supreme.  It will be a short walk.)

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I don't know whether I should be embarrassed that he doesn't know what the house is supposed to smell like when it's clean, or fall back on the hope that perhaps he just doesn't like the aroma of Murphy's Oil Soap.  Oh, who am I kidding!  Everyone likes the smell of Murphy Oil.  Am a horrible, horrible housekeeper.  *sigh*

Also, [profile] shady121 made me this wonderful icon, and heinous LJ won't let me use it, citing that it's too big in .gif format!  I tried to resize it on photobucket and was denied.  Can anyone help?

Awesome, huh?

 


From: (Anonymous)

Cute kid story


It cracks me up that you tell "cute kid story" in play dialogue but then I have always been your easiest audience.

Luvya, Mom

From: [identity profile] kristibisci.livejournal.com


I always look forward to your Cute Kid Stories. Have you thought of writing a sitcom? ;)

From: [identity profile] xoxrhapsodyxox.livejournal.com


Hilarious! And it hits close to home... I will never forget the first time we had a maid clean our house. Walking in, the smell of cleanliness,a rather foreign smell at that, hit me straight in the face, making me realize that something had definitely changed. I haven't smelled that aroma in quite awhile though. The maid only comes after my mom has tutored her kids.

From: [identity profile] persephone33.livejournal.com


A maid, a maid, my kingdom for a maid... although, if I did have a maid I would be completely worthless.

From: [identity profile] xoxrhapsodyxox.livejournal.com


I seriously doubt that! Mothers are much more than house cleaners.

From: [identity profile] dragonsangel68.livejournal.com


You could also console yourself with the fact that AJ is a typical boy and they simply don't have the genes to recognize clean *grins*
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