It Only Hurts When I Blog

Good morning, Karen, sorry you bumped your head. I'm wondering what the shower was like. And I guess I remember the soap thingy, but not clearly. I use Dr. Bronner's soap, which is in a bottle! It sounds like you have to work today, Karen, is that so? It's a holiday here, except I have a MLK service to play.
 

What a nice start to a Monday! Yuck! I'm guilty of saving soap bits too. I'm so cheap. haha. I'm off to the market. Now that I'm home all day everyday, I need more food here! Once I'm home I'll go over my shower video for you! xoxoxo
 

Karen, I have about 50 soaps that I have received as gifts or taken from hotels. I never buy soap but I do use soap slivers -- must be my farm upbringing. Weird too since as you all know I am not frugal. By the way, what did Charlie do with the soap stack?
 

Nancy - your comment posted twice, so I deleted one of them.

Charlie used his soap stack just like a bar of soap - I imagine it was a little difficult to wash with.

Those little hotel soaps are excellent donations for shelters and for packages to the soldiers, etc.
 

I heard on the news that today is dubbed "blue Monday..." peak of seasonal affective disorder. Truly, I had a hard time getting out of 4th gear. The shower was a great way to get through this weekend. Maybe Heather should have a baby this time every year! Me, Gram and the Aunties, Uncle Steve and Ol'Grandad Gil had a lot of fun.
Speaking of soap bits, one of the last things I did, per protocol, before my guests arrived was to ditch the soap slivers I WOULD have used.
And yes, in a more frugal time, we had the wire baskets on a wire stick thing, kind of like a bottle brush, I'm picturing that you could swish. There was a time before Lux liquid soap for dishes when you had Napatha (sp?). I used it on the kids for poison ivy at the Cape because there was still some there!
 

Karen, Heather's shower was a huge success, befitting her temporary size! We all missed you greatly! Heather's Dad, Steve, seemed very proud! As to the soap slivers, I remember that Grammy Slattery had a wire basket that a cake of ivory soap fit into which she swished in a dishpan full of hot water to wash the dishes in. Funny I don't remember one at the farm, but then I don't remember what we washed the dishes with. (I'm ending these sentences with propositions!) Gil likes to keep the soap sliver and stick it to the new bar of soap, but I tire of trying to get it to stick and throw it away. I remember saying to Aunt Peggy once, quite a few years ago, upon viewing a soap sliver in her bathroom, "I guess it doesn't matter how much money one has, those old habits persist!" She seemed embarrassed by my remark and I wished I hadn't said it!
 

Whoops, I meant prepositions, not propositions!
 

Yeah Mom, remember 'My Dad, Steve'? Grammy always has such a funny way with explainations...haha!!!
And Lyn, BITE YOUR TONGUE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Haha!!!!!