for some mother's day is about appreciating your mom, treating her with kindness.
for others, it's about getting extra opportunities to exercise motherly grace.
Today one of my children, whom shall remain nameless broke the microwave plate.
These things cost $40 bucks to replace, and will take about a month to arrive.
The microwave, even in PNG is an essential bit of life for us because the kids aren't allowed to use the gas stove on their own to heat their own lunches, and it's also much quicker.
Repair DAD to the rescue.
Superglue didn't hold it, but... I did bring 2 rolls of the 'good stuff' duct tape. You can not get good tape in country, it doesn't hold. MAsking tape, duct tape, both are rubbish here. Maybe scotch tape is okay.
SO, for those who would like to know...
cooking duct tape in a microwave appears to have no negative... no negative no negative.. no negative...no negative...no negative... side effects whatsoever.
(-;
seriously though, it didn't burn, nor give off any smellable gas, nor even heat up that much.
So I suppose, a duct tape microwave plate will keep us in reheated happiness until I can get one re-ordered from the states or find one in a leftover microwave around here.
Happy Mother's Day....
this year for Father's Day I'm hoping my kids break something I can fix with a swiss army knife and a paper clip. (-;
