Fun Monday - My Kitchen

Joy's challenge for this week's Fun Momday was to show our kitchens. I am NOT a fan of my kitchen. It is way too small for a family of 6. But, hey, at least I have my own kitchen. And in this city, where there's plenty of working people who are homeless, that's a good thing.

This is my kitchen table, which is normally full of stuff, since it is where I do everything from crafts to paying bills to writing letters. Sometime in the next year we need to upgrade to a table for 6. IKEA has a fantastic one that goes from 2- 6, which means when we are not all around I can fold down. And actually have some room to move. I took this picture standing at the edge of the livingroom. If you look closely at the bottom of the picture, you can see the tray of Sophie's high chair. There is no other place to put it, the patio doors are immediately to the left of the table, so if the highchair were any nearer to the table it would be blocking the entrance. We do move her closer when we eat, I'm not that terrible a mother. Underneath the microwave there are picture frames, I've lived here 10 months and still not put up all my photos.

The fridge and oven. I love magnets and pictures, can you tell? They drive my mother crazy, she thinks they make a mess. My favourite on there is a Family Circus strip that says "All the best artists in heaven get to paint sunsets and butterflies." Underneath the stove is a cabinet with the door taken off, as we are constantly regluing it. Freaking cheap 1970s cabinets. I didn't include it in the picture because it is just too white trash-y. This picture was taken with my back to the restof the kitchen.

Turn around and you get these two pictures. The first is the left side of the kitchen and is the stove top. And most importantly, my tea kettle. I love me a cup of a tea, numerous times a day. I have to say that this space is so small, the moment someone else comes in I get all claustraphobic.


The right side is a mish mash of junk, the toaster, undercounter CD player, all of Saoirse's Little People CDs and the Curious George soundtrack (which I love), the chore jars that my children never look at, a bubblegum machine cookie jar (filled with Easter chocolate currently), and Taylor's Spongebob water dispenser. Saoirse often sits on the counter while I do dishes and we listen to CDs. She laughs at my silly dancing. It's one of the best part of my days. Note the white stain on one of the cabinets. Too much boiling of water, that's where the tea kettle use to sit. And note also the 3 doors that are not completely shut. They really do shut, but are too full of crap to do so. Thank God Joy didn't ask to see inside our cabinets.

Here is my calendar, which I would die without. It is a more time moms calendar, put out by Chatelaine and I love it. I love the huge boxes, where I have plenty of room to write. The first 3 months of the year we were all colour coded, but eventually the pens made there way somewhere else and now it is just blue.


My corkboard, which is usually full of junk but I had just moved it so cleaned it off. The dead roses are from when Sophie was born. See that swatch of yellow? That's the colour I am going to pain the kitchen. I love a yellow kitchen, it just makes it seem so homey. This particular shade of yellow is called Crazy Daisy. I picked it because of the name, it just makes me smile everytime I say it. It comes from Debbie Travis' cheerful line. And a kitchen should always be cheerful.

And finally, my never used portable dishwasher. It sits in the diningroom area, and it never gets used. I am waiting for William to change my taps. And then maybe I will use it. But not unless I clean off the top. Right now it is a catchall for paperwork, pictures that still need to be hung and any other junky thing that makes its way into my house. Ideally, all that is supposed to sit on there is place mats and salt and paper shakers. I thought I had better show you this one, because it is typical Emma.


I am going to pop over to Molly's to see what the challenge for the next Fun Monday is. Pray God she does not ask to see my bathroom.