I love me some tools!

Up until recently, I thought only men really got excited about tools. This is not to say us women don't use the average tools around the house, just that we don't get all worked up over it, and talk about it for hours on end. Well, I have changed my stance. The last few interactions we've had with friends involved a "moving party" are a sewing collaboration. it was interesting to me at the moving party where the men found themselves...near a bunch of boxes and furniture, and where the women congregated...in the kitchen. This is not to say that women are not capable of loading furniture or moving boxes, it just tends not to be most of our preferences. Women love adventure, we love to show our strength, and we are strong. We are warrior princesses, not weak women...just had to clarify that. So, as the hours went on I continued to notice why I loved being in the kitchen scrubbing down the cabinets and using all the gadgets to get in the crevaces, and nooks. I wanted to see the beauty in them...scrub away the grime and see the beautiful robin's egg blue in all its glory. Honestly, do you think a man would care how clean a cabinet looks? I found myself marveling in it! And loving the tools to get it that way. I laughed at how we all commented on our favorite cleaning gadget and admired each other's work. We love to make things beautiful, it's what we've been designed to do.

Fast forward a week to my sewing party...I don't think many men attend these, but I know there are men who sew, and I think it's great, so I am not trying to put down either gender, just admiring our differences. I do have a husband who does laundry and dishes more than me on any given day. So, we brought our sewing machines (tool) or bobbins (tool), our thread hangers (tool) and our sewing boxes (tool box) and sewed to our heart content over tea and laughs.

So, I stand corrected, it's not only men who love their tools, we all have tools we love, we just choose to love diffent ones.