<p>laughing out loud and people are staring</p>
<p>Your daughter has used her iron! Evidently more than once! That alone is worth celebrating.</p>
<p>I love their innocent little discoveries! And you thought all that ended when they grew up. :D</p>
<p>texted daughter today – “are you alive?”</p>
<p>response: “busiest week of my life – but all good.” </p>
<p>Phew.</p>
<p>re: the iron. You don’t need steam to make quesadillas, which is all I used mine for when I was a freshman.</p>
<p>(two tortillas, salsa, cheese, aluminum foil)</p>
<p>Yes…she was so excited at her discovery…it was a fun conversation.</p>
<p>Karen Colleges…thats a very novel but imaginative use for the iron…</p>
<p>I’ll send the quesadilla idea to my D, who otherwise will probably never take her iron out of the box.
Downy wrinkle-releaser spray is her idea of dressing up!</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of the quesadilla idea! Too bad I don’t have an iron anyway;)</p>
<p>When coming up with the packing list for college last summer, I bought this really cool ironing “pad” to put on a bed to iron on. D did the <em>rolls eyes</em> things at me, and pointed out that she had not used an iron - ever - in 18 years, why should she start now? She left any item of clothing at home that her loving mother (or the local laundry/dry cleaner) ever ironed for her.</p>
<p>Of course, I’ve admitted before that I have a basket of clothes in my laundry room that has been there for months, full of things to be ironed. I guess the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree, right?!!!</p>
<p>Urgent e-mail from DS2 this past Wednesday:</p>
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<p>DH rushed to overnight the stuff – $41 in UPS charges.</p>
<p>Call to DS2 yesterday: “Did you get the cleats?” – “Ummmmm, I think so. They’re probably there. I didn’t check yet. But someone said he’d lend me a pair, so I don’t really need them.”</p>
<p>Grrrrrrrrr.</p>
<p>My daughter graduated from college in May '07 (I have a h.s. junior son, too) and this was my favorite quote from her:</p>
<p>Me: How’s everything going?</p>
<p>Her: Fine, but could you send me some more money?</p>
<p>Me: OK, how much do you need - what do you need it for?</p>
<p>Her: Well, when I went to church on Sunday, I didn’t have any money to put into the collection plate.</p>
<p>Now how can you turn that one down?</p>
<p>You can also make grilled cheese sandwiches using an iron.</p>
<p>We were experts in using the electric base of a popcorn popper (remember those?) for all of our gourmet dorm cooking. Never thought of using the iron, though. My roommate in college ironed her clothes EVERY morning. As I said, my D got my “ironing is icky” genes.</p>
<p>Welcome to CC, TiredofSnow. You’ll feel silly about your screen name, come July.</p>
<p>For all we know, TiredofSnow lives in the Yukon!</p>
<p>Hey, VeryHappy, I’m in Alaska! I can only hope we don’t have snow in July!</p>
<p>I did all my “cooking” in the base of my percolator. Discovered, when I tried to make Cream of Tomato soup, that the heat source is the very small indentation that holds the stem of the coffee basket. (I did not study engineering; can you tell?). Burnt, nasty, smelly milk and tomato sludge encrusted said indentation. eeew.</p>
<p>Sounds like TiredofSnow needs a loooooong vacation.</p>