My oh my, Cindy, your house smells SO good!

Yep! My house DOES smell good. And you know why? It's all because of my sweet, little doggy. Actually, it's because the house is the same scent as liquid fabric softener! And "why" do you ask does my house smell like liquid fabric softener? Thought you'd never ask....


I got up Sunday morning to let the dog outside to "do his business". He hardly had to go....hmmm. OK, coming back into the laundry room, I found out why. He apparently couldn't "hold it" during the night and went on the towels that were on the floor. Poor dog. Poor me! Now I have to wash those towels right away. It's Sunday, and I never do laundry on Sunday, but I HAD to wash those stinky towels!

About 1/2 hour later, as I'm stretching my back on the living room floor trying to relieve the pain and stiffness I get from being in a bed for 8 hours (but not always "sleeping" for those 8 hours), Jeff and I hear a crashing sound in the laundry room! I ran to see what happened. The vibration of the washing machine apparently vibrated the 1.33 gallon, brand new, container of liquid fabric softener off the top of the washer and onto the floor! EEEK! Liquid fabric softener all up the fronts of the washer, dryer, door, cabinets, running in the grout lines under the washer and splashed out into the hallway! And Max, the dog, was walking right through it all!

I hurriedly threw towels over it to minimize the amount of softener running UNDER the washing machine. Good thing we just had Jordan build a kennel outside in the back yard for Max! So, out to the kennel he went.

It took almost an hour, and another washer load of towels, to get it cleaned up and I was very late to church. In the middle of Sunday School, it started to thunder and pour down rain! I LOVE thunder storms - oops, except when I know my dog gets freaked out about them and he is still outside in the kennel!

I quickly excused myself and drove home to bring the dog in. Mind you, it's still pouring and there is still thunder and lightening! Oh no! NO DOG in the kennel! The pickets in the fence are all pushed out and the pickets on the gate are shredded to splinters! It is pouring rain, mind you, and I am rubbing away the rain from my face and eyes. EYE CARUMBA! I STILL have jalapeno juice embedded in the skin of my fingertips from chopping them up the day before! Even after multiple washings, 1.33 gallons of fabric softener to dilute it, and a shower with a shampooing!

I am whistling and calling the dog with my eyes squinted when the neighbor walks Max over to me. They grabbed him when he was running rampant and was holding him for me until I got home. Thank goodness!

I bring him into the house, only to realize his paws are super muddy! He slips away from me (I was a little distracted by the stinging in my eyes) and proceeds to run around the house leaving little doggy footprints on my beige carpet and tile.

I get him into the (newly cleaned) laundry room and proceed on my way back to church! I am wet, but everyone will understand, eh? I am still squinting my eyes because of the jalapeno juice, but then realize as I pull up into the parking lot at the church, I don't have any contact lenses in my eyeballs anymore! Services have already started and I won't be able to see where Jenna and Jeff are sitting ~ I see my friend, Cyndie Hale, out in the hall and ask her if she will be my eyes and help me find my family. She walks me in and sets me down. I am obviously wet and didn't even check my mascara so I must look a mess! But, I am in church so the Lord will bless me the rest of the day, eh?

Happy ending. The mud dried and vacuumed up, I had new contact lenses to put back in, heard a couple of really good talks at church, AND

My house STILL smells really good!