| Simple, Down-to-Earth, Everyday Aromatherapy | | | | beveraging in their bedrooms all day and night, |
| Diffusers | | | | conveniently forgetting that, maybe, those dishes, |
| Got a Kleenex, a hankie, and a scrap of old diaper? | | | | glasses, and utensils occasionally need cleaning. |
| Voila. You have three effective aromatherapy | | | | Summoning all my courage, emboldened by my battle |
| diffusers. Use the Kleenex in the car, the hankie in | | | | against dining room diuretics, I ventured into the |
| your purse and beach bag, and the old diaper in the | | | | boys' rooms. OMG, the entire Oxford English |
| dryer, spreading sweet citrusy bliss wherever you go. | | | | Dictionary has neither adjectives nor adverbs for |
| Nowhere in the amateur aroma-therapist's handbook | | | | describing most of what I "unearthed." Using heavy |
| will you encounter a mandate or threat; nowhere | | | | equipment to cart away tiny mountains of plates, |
| does it say, "Spend a fortune on aromatherapy | | | | glassware, and debris, and summoning reinforcements |
| diffusers, or else..." Of course, if you have time, a | | | | for dragging out dirty laundry, I brought order where |
| trust fund, and exquisite taste, we wholeheartedly | | | | once chaos had reigned. And they think they save |
| encourage you to shop Crate and Barrel and Pottery | | | | the planet from scurrilous invaders! Then, because |
| Barn for some of the most adorable aromatherapy | | | | serious situations call for serious measures, I used the |
| diffusers available anywhere on the planet. For the | | | | little plug-in aromatherapy diffusers that gradually |
| rest of us, however, who just emptied the youngest | | | | disperse masculine scents using the heat from the |
| child's piggy bank to fill the gas tank for the | | | | little light in the fixture. I promise you, my noble sons |
| afternoon carpool, nature and our own | | | | and heirs will not notice them until they get called-up |
| resourcefulness must satisfy our serious and | | | | to the major leagues; but I will know. |
| compelling need for aromatherapy diffusers. | | | | Finally, putting the big finish on my household search |
| Trust me, we need help all around the old | | | | and destroy mission, I ventured fearlessly into my |
| homestead. This morning, just an average | | | | husband's bathroom. Honoring my |
| business-as-usual kind of morning, the puppy peed at | | | | great-grandmother's wisdom, because she pretty |
| the exact geographic center of the heirloom Oriental | | | | much composed the scripture that informs all things |
| rug in the dining room. Following the puppy's sterling | | | | wisely domestic, my husband and I agreed to keep |
| example, my precious toddler aimed for the very | | | | two things always and forever separate-our money, |
| same spot. After aggressive intervention with my | | | | and our bathrooms. For both, we have "yours," |
| home-brewed cleaners, guaranteed to kill all pestilence | | | | "mine," and "ours"-except only visiting royalty can use |
| and plague no matter how insidious, I closed the deal | | | | the facilities we politely call "ours." I fervently hope I |
| with a happy-scented aromatherapy candle. Mission | | | | will domesticate my man before we finish this |
| accomplished. | | | | long-running marital comedy. Meanwhile, I will go on |
| Still, no rest for the weary. My beloved and | | | | cleaning his bathroom, sparing you the details, and |
| absolutely lovable teen-aged sons-please, girls, marry | | | | refilling the little candle-powered essential oil diffusers |
| them and take them off my hands!-save the world | | | | adorning his toilet tank, counter top, and top shelf. |
| from all manner of virtual invaders, snacking and | | | | |