Welcome to my first blog post!  You may be asking, why would a comedian/comedy writer such as myself team up with the fine folks at The Clorox Company?  For one very simple reason – messes are funny.  Yep, you heard me!  Maybe not right when they happen but, as I’ve seen with practically everything else in life, you just gotta laugh. And being a mom to a six-year old boy and five rescue dogs, on a daily basis I sure do see my share of messes!

Here’s a little story of the messes in my life, which are typical around our house…

If you’re anything like our family, you spend a lot of time in the car.  Driving our seven-year-old son back and forth to school on weekdays, the Saturday karate class, play dates and everything in between.  And the backseat of our SUV (a hybrid, I like to add) has quickly become his dorm room.  Tossed wrappers from fruit-flavored snacks, squashed juice boxes, and empty “cheddar fish” snack-packs litter the joint.  Ever seen what leftover gummy bears look like in the fall after being dropped back there during the hot, hot summer?  (It’s no jamboree, I’ll tell you that.)

Things tumble out of his lunchbox and backpack that we don’t even know about until weeks later!  Many times we’ll find an old plastic bag of something, which will lead to a little fun game we like to call, “What Do You Think It Was?”  Those crime scene agents got nothin’ on us!  And it’s those messes that have led our family to a strict house policy called - “Don’t’ Ask, Don’t Smell.”  Get whatever it was to the trash as quick as humanly possible, clean up the collateral damage and move on!

I’m excited to say that I’m joining forces with Clorox to come up with a glossary of terms just like that one - “Don’t Ask, Don’t Smell.”  These definitions will comprise what they’ve called “The Ick-tionary.”  Because as I’ve learned from my comedy writing on sitcoms, real life always does seem to present the funniest ideas.