Yesterday I cleaned my oven. The first time I’ve cleaned “my” oven. I ran across a magnet that said, “Jill’s kitchen.” That probably describes the area in which the oven was placed.
I had helped clean the oven previously. The oversight was my wife’s. Mine was a bit of the grunt work (and sometimes cleaning oven racks requires just that).
The work yesterday was all mine. From the planning to the scraping to the execution of the task.
Interestingly, when I was done, I realized I had not cleaned the top of the oven. That will await the next cleaning. Sometimes the things that we see are the areas that get attention. Next time around I have listed in my mind to follow up on the unseen areas as well.
All in the learning!
This also was the first time my son had a birthday without his mother around. I sent greetings (snail mail, phone message, email and facebook). The year of firsts is not mine alone!!