Attention Graflings!! (and whomever else wants to participate provided you can, first remember these days, and second realize I wont be cleaning your kitchen if you guess right). As I was cleaning up after dinner tonight, Spaghetti a la Dad with corn on the side, my kids wont eat peas, I went through the kitchen cleaning checklist that is burned on my brain. You know the one I mean. The one embedded there as a result of our time cleaning up after family meals under Mom and Dads roof. Yes, the one James and I always tried to cut the corners on. Dont get the wrong idea non-original Graf kids. The list was not exhaustive, just thorough, taking at worst twenty-five minutes to do well. As a result, ALL OF US, at one time or another viewed this as a task akin to that of Sisyphus, and did what ever we could to get out of it . Tonight as I finished the last job, I thought to myself, If I post the list of jobs to be done in order to clean the kitchen, cleaned in such a way as to not have Mom demand of her wayward child, Did you really think I wouldnt notice you didnt do that?, who would know what items Id left off? Lets find out. Ill provide five jobs out of seven, and the one who wins the prize is the one who remembers the two more that I am thinking of. I dont care if you list more than two, and I dont wanna hear any arguments that my list is flawed,( Amanda pipe down), thus revealing what you knew all along, that I never cleaned the kitchen right in the old days (I said pipe-down Amanda!). Here we go: 1. Scrape the plates; 2. Rinse. 3. Hand-wash; 4. Sweep; 5.Wipe and put away the place-mats; 6. ; 7. ; And what is the prize you ask for playing this little game? Do you really need a prize when I am simply asking you to relive the halcyon days-gone-by of our youth? Fine Elisa Ill give you something, just play. As the holiday season fast approaches we may be lucky enough to all dine together again with Mom and Dad. What could be better than that? Well not to put to fine a point on it, but how about watching the others clean the kitchen, while you sit there guilt free, enjoying pie and coffee, and remember the stupidity of my youth, among those souls who weve been blessed to have join our family over the years? (Incidentally, this will mean that Dad finally sits down after a big meal and enjoys having us back home just a little bit more.) I believe that this challenge will appeal to that inner-grafling that has been silenced by maturing process of the intervening years, James accepted of course. I look forward to reading your lists, and the inevitable heaps of abuse that will accompany them, soon. -Miss you guys
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 01:35:40 +0000