Fridge Door exploration
I was standing in the kitchen this morning and noticed something that really hadn't struck me before. The refrigerator door is an amazing testament to our crazy life. I cannot imagine how we would organize our life if we didn't have the big white door to meet our messaging needs.
There are family pictures stuck on at various angles with a colorful assortment of magnets. About half of the alphabet is left from the original letter magnet set purchased many years ago (and used for various serious and not so serious messages). Now you have to be pretty creative to come up with a word from the letters that have survived the passage of time (and thousands of opening and closings of the door).
I am reminded that we missed the Kindergarten open house a few weeks ago (not sure how we missed the bright orange piece of paper stuck to the door announcing it). And then there's the soccer sign up sheets - three of them this year as the 5 year old will don her soccer shoes for the first time this fall. There are various pizza coupons (three of the four have long since expired but at least have the phone number of the pizza delivery shop on them).
The fridge is a varitable gallery of art and artistic expression. Half-dried finger paintings hang from magnet collections and reports and papers sporting a range of red markings and grades peek out from behind report cards, a driver's education certificate and two school schedules. There are two calendars with markings of important dates and times (some we made it to, some we didn't). There are a couple of recipes.
All of these things balance precariously on the front and visible side of the fridge and threaten to slide to the floor each time the door is swung open and closed. There doesn't seem to be any rule about how long something should stay on the door or what the priority is to be in the front or hanging along the side almost impossible to see. I'm sure under it all is a fridge door that needs to be cleaned as well as a couple of notices that slipped behind without being noticed in time. There are a few pictures that really should be removed from the fridge but there just doesn't seem to be any other logical place to store them. I'm not sure what someone would learn about our family from an exploration of the paperwork and magnets but it would seem to be a overview of our crazy life.