Munchkin and I were expecting a visitor at 10:30 this morning. We were doing really well getting everything ready in time and by 10:15, I was just finishing up the vacuuming. Rachael was playing on the living room floor and watching the vacuum cleaner pass by. I had already decided the kitchen floor could get by with a spot mopping done earlier in the morning and then I was just thinking, “wow! I’m going to get a shower before this person gets here. COOL BEANS!
Then…
I went to move the now-unused water cooler from the carpet to the kitchen floor when it slipped and BOOM!
CRASH!
The water bottle (about 1/4 of the way full so about 1.5 gallons) went spraying everywhere and the pottery cooler part crashed and shattered spilling another 1.5 gallons everywhere missed by the initial spray. GRRRRRR…
I ran to the bathroom and got towels to work on the mess. It wasn’t enough.
THEN THE PHONE RANG. The visitor was on her way. Did I mention it was someone rather important? Not a good friend, but someone that I needed to look reasonably put-together for? Sheesh. Figures.
Turning back to the mess, I piled more towels on it and realized I didn’t have enough. I look at the clock and realized the Man of the House was in the important meeting of the day. Okay, time to call my dad. I’m sure I sounded panicked. He said that I was doing what I was supposed to and to tell the visitor not to sit on the kitchen floor. Gee, thanks Dad.
I glance at the clock and look at my now soaked sweat pants. Too late for a shower. I grab a now bored Munchkin and take her to our room to change her diaper and her clothes and get myself reasonably presentable. No shower, but clean jeans and top do help things a little bit. Rachael looks better in her clean outfit and clean diaper. (Did I mention the Bum Genius 3.0 is a cool cloth diaper? More on that later.)
I take Rachael back out to the living room and sit down to feed her. Then the doorbell rings and our visitor was here… She was pretty cool about the towels on the floor and we had a good meeting.
Next time I’ll just forget the vacuuming and mop the floor properly in the first place. 
2 Responses to “Why I should have mopped instead of vacuumed this morning…”
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April 2nd, 2008 at 2:20 am
Sounds like quite a morning!
I “lost” you in my global relocation, and just found you again. We’re in Hong Kong now and life has certainly changed.
Glad to see all is well with the little one, and now I’m off to catch up on your news.
Deanne (mom2rbdl)
April 8th, 2008 at 10:36 am
I will not laugh…..
bwaaaaahaaaaa!