Of baking soda and vinegar

Today, Paul and I cleaned the oven.
I scrubbed, he had fun.
Paul referred to it has his 'scrubbing mission', but mostly, I spread baking soda onto the bottom (lift out) pan of the oven, and he sprayed vinegar and laughed as it sizzled.
He would squirt vinegar, and say something like "good one!" or "Wow! Great Shot - it's really sizzling!"
The best part was that when I finished with working on the sides of the oven, I went over to the sink prepared to scrub the pan and ta-da! The baking soda and vinegar and totally dissolved everything! All I had to do was rinse! It was a great moment for me, and I felt like I had accomplished something AND had fun with Paul at the same time.

Not bad for a day when hormones were still coursing through my veins making me somewhat CrAzY!

We also dismantled the Christmas tree and put the majority of the decorations away.
Paul threw most of the decorations on the floor - thank goodness for carpeting and not being in the room at the time.... I carefully packed everything away into boxes. Paul commented on how much he loves the red bell that he made and how much he doesn't love the green one that Miriam made..... methinks there is some jealousy there - cousin rivalry perhaps? At any rate, all decos are put away into the Christmas box until next year.

And I am hoping to start writing more often, and including pics as I go. Need a spot to start journaling again....

Here's hoping the rest of the week goes so smoothly.