Okay, we are all well aware of the saying, all it takes is a few minutes…well, my daughter “accomplished” a LOT in just a couple of minutes alone in the kitchen. I often “leave” my almost two year old in a room if she is eating a snack or playing with her toys in a safe area. I had to go and send an email at my computer (which is located in my husband and my bedroom). In the few minutes that I was away, and my daughter was (what I thought) eating her lunch and snack in the kitchen while watching the under the counter TV, my daughter got a hold of the PLEDGE furniture polish that I bought at Costco yesterday with her (it was a 3 package one, but I had tucked the other two neatly out of her reach under the sink with a lock on it). The other one, I planned to clean the furniture with in the living room. Of course, SHE got to it before I had the chance.

What ensued next, you can clearly see by my photos that I took shortly after the disaster occurred. It felt like a snowstorm in our kitchen!

I know I have no one to blame but myself, I should NEVER have left it on the counter, I also know how curious my child is, as are most 2-3 year old children. I EVEN heard noises, but I “assumed” (I should never have assumed, because it makes “an ass out of you and me”) that she was just playing with the faucet in the bathroom. She often likes to wash her hands for  L O N G periods of time, BUT, when it was a noise every second, I quickly zoomed downstairs, realizing it was some type of SPRAY and NOT water!!!!

Of course, I needed to explain to her why what she did was not a good thing and that I should not have left it out. These are cleaning supplies, they have chemicals, etc. and they are POISON. I had to immediately wash her hands and rinse her face, luckily she did not get it all over her, just everything else!!!

What a mess! Plus, Pledge, being the furniture polish that it is, leaves a thick residue and is not an easy thing to clean up. In fact, I better go back and make sure it is thoroughly cleaned up before Thanksgiving! Not what you want RIGHT before the holidays, what can you do?! At least my kitchen is lemony fresh!

Enjoy your Thanksgiving, take time to appreciate all the good things in your lives and I too, will look back someday at this and laugh…just maybe not in the next five minutes!