A Necessity?

Being oblivious first time home buyers, we rushed to move in before changing out the HORRIBLE carpet in our home. Fast forward three and half years and three extremely active kids later and VOILA--even worse carpet than before! Well, since Mark has a job that actually makes money, I did some research and bought this guy...


So I call my sister to tell her how excited I am for my new carpet cleaner and she says, "What! I can't believe you've lived without one this long!" Apparently, to some, it is an absolute necessity when you have carpet and children. Who knew?

The other day I watched a friend's kids. One of them got purple goo stuck on the bottom of his shoe and I had a trail of purple goo--I believe was a melted fruit snack--going up the stairs and down the hallway. (I wish I'd gotten a before picture but you can imagine what it looked like.
Now, with my new Hoover, it looks like this.


I know this picture probably means nothing to you but really, you should have seen how it looked before. I am loving this thing already. Perhaps, it really is a necessity after all.