Grateful for linoleum
posted on 12/05/2007
Today, I am grateful for my cheap linoleum floors in my rented house. I am truly grateful that I don't live in my own investment, with really nice tile floors in my kitchen.
Today, Allana colored with markers. She loved the blue one in particular, and although she would use a little yellow or green or pink, she preferred blue. She liked to color big strokes across the page, and then she tried coloring in just the corner. She tried coloring with more than one marker at a time. This went on for almost an hour.
Of course, there was marker everywhere! It was all over her, including the bottoms of her feet. It was all over me, including the tops of my feet! And it was all over the floors.
And when she was done, I wet two paper towels and she and I worked together to wipe up all the marker on the floor. It came right up.
And I realized as we were down on the floor cleaning together that if those had been really nice tile floors, I would not have let her color with markers today. I would have been too worried about it staining because that's just how I am, and so she and I would have missed a really neat time together.
I love my linoleum. It made me a better mother today.
