Grandma

So I figured out today why my Grandmother and Aunt that lived with my Grandmother had plastic on everything.

Every time I went over to their house growing up I was always in amazement with the furniture and carpet.

PLASTIC!

There was plastic everywhere! The couches, chairs in the iving room and dining room had plastic on them. The throw pillows even had plastic covering them. They had plastic over the foam on the pillows and than had crocheted multi colored yarn over the pillows that could be removed and cleaned.

Even more bizarre, they had plastic runners all over the carpets.

They would clean all the time. Shine the plastic on carpets regularly. I always thought this was odd.

Now they are long gone and I have a family of my own.

The kids are now 2 and 4. The light bulb went off yesterday about them.

It seems like these days Spot Shot is one of my best friends. The day started off as any day with 2 young children. Wiping yogurt off the living room chair. Than Spot Shot. Sopping up apple juice from the living room couch. Than Spot Shot. Wiping up a wet pull up that leaked onto the living room couch. More Spot Shot. Wiping up more spilled yogurt from the other living room couch. And yet more Spot Shot.

After all this, my Grandmother and Aunt seemed pretty normal. I now understand the plastic extremely well.

I even understand the Marie Romano character from Everybody loves Raymond about the plastic on the furniture. She said at one point when they took off the plastic and the boys made a mess..."this is why we can't have nice things!"

This is way too true in my life.

Either I need plastic or the kids need to stop eating.