Educational Placemats
In my never-ending quest for clutterlessness, I find myself in the oddest places. Today, that meant the next-to-bottom drawer in a built-in cupboard behind a closed door in our dining room. That's the Placemat Drawer. And it's stuffed, just jammed with - among other things - 24 placemats: a pretty pair for every month (they're a practical decoration for the table in our kitchen) (yes, they are!).
Also, there are a stack of educational placemats, left over from dinner-table-time learning, when the kids were little. I guess since the boys (young men, now) know their states 'n' capitols, ABCs in cursive; addition, multiplication, and division tables; have an idea of who was president when, and have a basic Spanish vocabulary, it's time for these placemats to march on to a new home. (Bonus mats include the instruments of the orchestra and the periodic table of elements.)
Plus, embarrassingly, while these mats slept in that dark drawer, the world map mats and solar system placemats have gone obsolete! Entire countries have been renamed several times, and poor Pluto has been kicked off the planet chart, rendering those mats good for nowhere except under the dog's food and water bowls! (That's a good place for Pluto, anyhow!)
Enough dishing for today!
xo, LD
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