Carpet Cleaning

Grab a mug of coffee and a donut... it's time for a newspaper break!
(Hopefully you can decipher these.)



Now that I've got my LaughterThoughts outlet, this Zits comic strip made me laugh. I think that I've thought this same thing many times. (Wait! I can't tell this story-- I might want to put it in my blog, and I don't want to "ruin" it!)

Then I got farther down the funnies page, and I ran into the Baby Blues strip. I really enjoy Baby Blues. There are probably only three of the strips I regularly read, and it is one of them. It made me smile, too. How true is this!?! Being a mom is the most wonderful gift. It is such a privilege to experience children and to watch them grow, but, wow, somedays it can definitely be rough!

Well, I got my bedroom carpet shampooed this morning. I had just gotten out of the shower and was getting dressed. M was at school, and L and B were downstairs watching Barney. T was asleep, and S was upstairs, so I had her come in and help me get ready so that she didn't bother the baby. I was blow drying my hair, and I look down at her and see that she has somehow reached the bottle of baby shampoo, has gotten it open, has squirted it all over her head, and is in the process of squirting it all over the bathroom floor. What is unfortunate about this is that our bathroom floor is carpeted. (Now, I have never been a fan of carpet in my bathroom, and this is just another reason I can add to that list of "why"!!!) I must admit, I don't really know the best way to get shampoo out of carpet... I put water on it and rubbed it with a towel, but with all the suds I was getting, I know that I wasn't effectively getting the soap out. In fact, I did this routine several times, but my soap problem didn't seem to get any better. Maybe more unfortunate than the fact that there is carpet in the bathroom is the fact that my carpeted bathroom now has a huge dirt magnet right in the doorway! I guess when it comes to cleaning the carpets and having them shampooed, you get what you pay for! I would not recommend a 2 year-old. They do cheap work, but the quality just isn't there! But, on the positive side, when it comes to S, she now has a clean head of hair. I picked her up and stuck her under the sink and rinsed out the shampoo. She wasn't too happy with that, but I guess she got what she paid for, too!

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