Thankful

Today I am thankful for Vacuums

Is that spelled right?  I can never remember.

When the power was out I couldn't vacuum my house.  It was nasty.

You think your house gets gross when you have toddlers.  They run around with crackers in their little hands and  you feel like there are crumbs everywhere. 

But, let me tell you, you have control over toddlers.

You can pick them up and move them back into the kitchen with their food.

You don't know messy until you come home to discover that your 18 year old has decided that he and his friends want nachos but they don't want to leave the tv to have them and so they have decided to 

GRATE CHEESE 

in your family room.

oy.

And then this child has the audacity to say something like "this carpet is disgusting"

That's when you are grateful for vacuums and the fact that you can shove the vacuum into his capable hands and say "then clean it up"

I actually did vacuum once during the power outage.

I had the generator going and decided that I just had to vacuum.

We were living in the one room and eating there and sleeping there and hauling wood in and it was just a mess

so I decided I couldn't take it anymore.

I started up the vacuum and everything that was going at the time turned off.

Guess that sucker used more power than I realized.

But the carpet looked better.

All was right with the world again.

I've been sewing lately and I'm a messy seamstress.

I throw scraps and bits of thread on the floor.

As I lay here on the couch with my throbbing head I'm looking at my messy, thread covered carpet and thinking:

I'm glad I have a vacuum.

Now where is a kid to do the actual vacuuming when I need one?