June 9, 2005 – A Father’s Touch
Yesterday I began the painful process (especially when a tack goes into a foot!) of “assisting” Claire to clean her room. We started strong in the closet, whipping out a garbage bag in no time. The cleaning was called because of the late hour. Today, to her credit, she spent another 4 hours cleaning while I was at work. To her eye, it was clean! However, a father’s eagle eye discovered yet unclean parts of the room.
This was the scene behind the dresser. A similar scene was repeated behind a wicker storage unit. Perhaps some time, we’ll have an “eye-spy” contest to see who can name the most objects in the picture! All told, 5 bags of garbage were hauled out. For all the garbologists out there, the contents of the garbage included old candy, many school papers, old tins, tissues, broken hair clips, and old greeting cards. The best find was the cell phone that Claire “lost” the last week of school. At any rate, Claire is to be commended for making room for a whole new crop of detritus in the future.
2 Responses to “June 9, 2005 – A Father’s Touch”
turtle (who thinks this blog was WRONG) says:
June 11, 2005 at 1:51 pm
I could just rewrite this whole blog. It was not that bad. It was actually better then I thought it would be. I really wouldn’t call the process painful. it was a rather enjoyable experience(if you get past the part about dad blogging it). Now, I feel like I have an empty clean room. I did NOT think my room was clean. I did know about the dresser. It’s the place where I put anything I don’t want to throw away but don’t feel like taking care of. I just kind of shove it back there.
Anonymous says:
June 11, 2005 at 4:31 pm
Man, claire i can`t think of it!
my dorm is a huge mess.