Oh you fancy huh?

Gadgets, gadgets and more fancy gadgets!  That's what the Harrington household is full of!  The Harringtons are the family I am currently nannying for, they're great!  They're house is also great, so great that I can't figure out how to work ANYTHING!  Let me just give you a few examples...

I go to wash our the baby's bottle, can't find the dish soap.  I'm looking under the sink, in the pantry, the fridge.  No luck.  When I ask mom about it, she points to a spout attached to the sink, a built in dish soap dispenser eh?  Funny thing about this one is, when I get home to my own sink, it has one too and I had never seen it.  Genius I tell you.

The washer and dryer are like trying to fly an airplane, not that I've ever done that, but all these buttons are what I imagine flying an airplane to be like.  There is a button for everything, your normal wash, kidswear, gentle, 2nd rinses (for skincare, it actually says this), I'm still looking for the bartender button.  The dryer is no different, it even yelled at me to put the clothes in.  Geez you bossy dryer.

Today's adventure was vacuuming and steam cleaning the floors.  A vacuum seems simple enough, plug it in, turn it on.   Wrong! I plugged it in and nothing happened.  I'm going crazy looking for a different power button, nothing.  I look up and see on the table this bucket time thing that says max water line.  Water???  Yes, you have to fill the bucket with water, put it under the vacuum, then turn it on.  Vacuuming, check!  Next, a Haan steam cleaner, I felt fancy just saying that.  I added the water, plugged it in and waited.  I'm not sure what I was waiting on, it to grow legs and steam clean on its own?  I'm not sure. Well, it didn't do anything, so I started pushing it around and it just left these little streaks and wasn't cleaning anything.  What I realized is that it has a specialized pad that you attach to the bottom, let the cleaning begin!

Now that I've figured these things out, I want to be just like Mrs. Harrington when I grow up.

The Mom Window

There is a sacred, precious window of time in each mother's day.  It's those minutes, or if you're lucky, hours where your child is not around, whether playing by themselves or again, if you're lucky, napping.  Precisely 3 hours after my little one awakes, I put her down for a nap.  But during those 3 hours she's awake, I meticulously plan out what shall happen during my mom window. And I'm always usually conflicted.  A few hours of mind numbing television and eating a bowl of something extremely unhealthy for me (without tiny pinchers invading my unhealthiness) sounds tantalizing. But if I do that I'll be resigned to doing the laundry, dishes, blogging and even showering with a 25lb growth on my leg.  This is where I become thankful the Lord has blessed us with the gift, or should I say talent, of multitasking. 

My mom window today:

Bath and devotional (why is it so difficult for me to keep books out of the water)
Blogging and laundry (let me move my underwear off the keyboard so I can type)
Dishes and eating junk (seems counterproductive)
Cleaning and mind numbing tv (not my fault if the cleaning doesn't actually happen)