Selfish
I own a Bissell carpet cleaner. It is an amazing device. A device which has been seeing weekly use for the past six weeks. Because I have boys who are at the helpful but not potty-trained point. Which means that they try to change their poopy diapers themselves. And there is also drawing on the carpet with markers. And your standard spills and whatnot.
I have long been of the opinion that there is no need for everyone I know to own their own carpet cleaner. I'm not going to be using mine everyday, so why not borrow it?
That has now ended. The carpet cleaner is out on loan as of Sunday, with an expected return date of Thursday evening. You wouldn't think this would be a problem, would you?
I just spent the past hour trying to wash cake icing in blue and red out of a carpet with a washcloth. My boys have learned well that moving a chair lets them reach more things.
Nothing personal to any of my friends, but if I own the carpet cleaner, why am I the one struggling with the cleanup without it?
For the future, anyone else who wants to borrow my carpet cleaner can rent a cleaner at Schnucks or do the washcloth method themselves. Because when I am PMSing and need to give the boys baths because they are covered in icing and need to register Becca for kindergarten today, but just discovered that the forms are incorrectly filled out and need to take the kids to Becca's dance class and then rush them out of dance class to their scheduled haircuts, I just don't feel like making sacrifices and loving my neighbor.
I just hope there aren't any poopy issues before Thursday.
How come Drew gets to look so much more distinguished in his scarfy picture than I do?