Mercury and Zeal have really been pretty good these last couple of weeks (besides attitudes and whiny-ness). We spent last weekend in Idaho visiting family for Mercury’s 3rd Birthday. We didn’t have and real messes to speak of UNTIL… today they decided it would be fun to dump a whole bottle of cooking oil on the kitchen floor. That was crazy and I had no idea how to go about cleaning it up so I had to go online to look for ideas because I knew it was a bad idea to get a lot of oil on a towel because of fire risks when laundering. So I found a website that said to pour baby powder on then scrape it up and throw it away. Well it was such a big spill that I didn’t have enough baby powder to cover it so I had heard that some people use corn starch instead of baby powder so I figured it would be about the same so I used an entire box of cornstarch and the oil was still not all covered so I had to resort to flour which I had plenty of so I cover it all with flour then scraped up the oil, baby powder, corn starch, and flour mess with a spatula and threw it away then I swept up the excess flour and wiped up what was left with some hot water and dish-soap. Phew! That was a lot of work but no towels were ruined so I guess it was worth it. But I still have 2 little pairs of socks and pants to wash from the 2 little boys who were playing in said mess. But GUESS WHAT!!! I didn’t even yell or freak out because I had just been waiting for our next mess! I am so proud I took all their clothes off, gave them a bath then put them down for their nap. Although I didn’t really deal with the issue other than to tell them that they didn’t get a story before their nap because mommy had to go clean up their mess. So I thought about pictures but the oil didn’t really show up so all I got was an in the process of clean up shot which I will try to post later (it is on my phone since all the battery’s for our camera are dead so I am not entirely sure how to get it onto the computer so I have to wait for Dave t come home and tell me if it is possible).