I like to write about my wife, though she hates it when I write about her. She thinks I embellish when it comes to her. When she reads something that I give her credit for, she tries to correct me, but it doesn’t work, because the things I write about her are (mostly) accurate. For this The Other Day…, I have to go back before our recent trip to Florida.
We recently purchased a new car, and almost immediately after, my wife suggested that we needed to get some seat covers for it. You see, the seats are a light color and, therefore, she thought they would probably stain easily. I agreed. She had a point. (She usually does). So, she looked and looked for some to her liking and finally suggested, “You know, we have all those Disney beach towels, why don’t we use those?” I thought that was an excellent idea. Since we already had plenty of them, it would save both time and money. However, how would they stay on? We needed to figure out a way to fasten them to the seats. What did we come up with? Well, have you ever purchased those sheet fasteners when your fitted sheets don’t fit properly and constantly slip off the corners? Just so happens, one pack of those fasteners holds two towels in place on the front seats of our car. Who knew??
The best part about doing something like this is you can get creative with your towel covers and choose ones that suit your personality or your favorite character/theme. For example, my wife’s seat cover features Grumpy, from Disney’s Snow White. Mine is Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer’s Apprentice. So, now we have inexpensive seat covers for our expensive car seats and we get more use out of our beach towels. It’s a Win, Win.
This next example of my wife’s wisdom involves traveling. When you travel, if you take a cooler, do you buy ice for it? Well, imagine you are at Walt Disney World, trying to figure out where you are going to get ice for your trip back to Wild and Wonderful West Virginia. I was still trying to think it through when my wife says, “Hey, why don’t you take those sixteen bottles of water you have and freeze them? You won’t need to buy a bunch of ice that way, and you won’t have to drain the cooler when we get home.” Once again, I thought that was a brilliant idea.
We had to open the water bottles first and remove a little water to prevent swelling when the water froze. I stood the bottles upright inside the freezer, leaving the caps a little loose so they didn’t blow off or anything. Once the bottles were frozen, I put them in our cooler and tightened the caps. Did it work? Yes, it did! In fact, it worked so well that there was still ice in the bottles three days after we arrived home.
Moom had done it again! I wasn’t surprised. She always comes up with good ideas that I would never think of on my own, trust me. When I told her how well both these ideas she had given me worked, she was all humble about it. Me, not so much. I like to brag on her and her ideas.
Some of you may be wondering why I refer to my wife as Moom. The truth is, one day my daughter was talking to her friends about her mother and said Moom instead of Mom. After that, it just kind of stuck as a term of endearment.
