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my love affairs...

when i was a litle girl my mom made me take baking in 4h. to be honest, i loved it and even won grand champion with my cookies - grand champion folks!!! but she had this white tupperware bowl that we used for our cookies. lots of other things too, but mostly cookies. anyways...that bowl was perfect. it had a wide flat bottom which allowed for the best mixing. it didn't splatter. it was perfect. i loved that bowl.
then i get married...and get a set of glass bowls. i use them and find them just okay. i often comment to my mom how much i'd like her bowl. she always tells me she uses it and refuses to hand it over. well, this fall she went to a flea market. yes, friends...there at the same flea market was a perfect tupperware bowl. being the good mom, she bought it. my dad gave it to me with a look that said he didn't get it. but i squealed with delight and hugged it. yes, it is true, ask my hubby!
since then i've also received a smaller version from my grandma's kitchen.


now for my 2nd love affair of late. the magic eraser!!! i love this thing. every so often i go on a frenzy with it. that happened this afternoon. well, i guess it started a few weeks ago. we are remodeling our kitchen. the guys moved my stove and i decided the top of the back part looked gross. i took my magic erarser to it and it was spotless! love it!!!
then today, they were here doing some more work and i needed to bring it out again. this time i got started and just couldn't stop. i cleaned the knobs on my stove, the microwave, the toaster, the tea pot....oh it felt so good!!! and they all seem so shiny!!
see....this was me!!!! one happy happy mama!!!!


this is for those of you that need to see what i'm talking about. if you don't have one you need one....they are so wonderful!!!!


and oh...just for fun....can anyone guess what kind of countertop we just had installed. it is under the bowl:)




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