What About Mom

Group Writing Project #1 from Does Mommy Love It? is on: A family product I cannot live without. So, I kinda cheated on this one. Here’s an oldish post of mine from the now-defunct (or maybe merely dormant) Makes-Me-Smile Monday Carnival.

10 things (not people or immaterial concepts) I cannot do without:

10. Thanks to our spending moratorium, I was able to weather the Self-Sufficiency lesson yesterday in church. Dick said he started feeling a little guilty over our car (since it is a debt). I did not. I am confident that this beautiful little minivan would come down to the depths of hell for me, were I to be consigned there for my blatant idolatory.

9. Did I mention that my minivan has a portable DVD player?

8. Oh, and Barbie (yes, Barbie) dvd’s to go with it. (The Princess and the Pauper is the best — so far).

7. Chapstick. Surprisingly still quite necessary in humid Florida. Now more than ever. And sometimes I have to put vaseline all over my hands and cover them with baggies overnight because Utah = Arid.

6. All other grooming/hygiene products, including concealer and some lipstick, but not including any other make-up or torture devices.

5. My Nike zip-up vest that I wear sometimes if I’m around people who might be offended or might get the wrong idea if I were to want to be comfortable and able to breathe freely for some freakish reason (i.e. if I’ve already taken off my bra because I have been home for … oh, 5 seconds).

4. The Kids Korner at the YMCA (even if they have succumbed to that awful forced visual alliteration and don’t know how to spell “corner”).

3. Whipping cream and hot chocolate. Which I would be happy to give up if caffeine-free Mountain Dew were available. Oops. Now I’m drinking lots of both, so I guess I lied about that.

2. The Internet. Too bad computers (or computer-like gadgets) are necessary for the internet — talk about satanic in origin.

1. Guidebooks to Africa. Or France. Or South America. There are six kinds of people in the world. Those who don’t want to travel, those who think they are too cool to want to travel, those who think travel is a waste of time and money, those who want to travel someday, those who want to travel but get almost as much of a thrill planning trips and reading guidebooks, and those who think travel means going to Hawaii. Me, I have to know that there are places I could go. Places I might see, any day now.