Year of Pleasures: Kitchen Mat

Standing for hours on hard linoleum covered concrete totally works your feet and knees over, and whenever Bear or I are cooking we always end up whining about the pain. I found this soft mat at Big Lots and snapped it right up to bring home for Bear.

It’s vinyl covering something that feels like a memory foam mattress, cut in a way to look like leather. I gave it to Bear to use when he spends ages making five different fillings for one cake, and I got to feel like a great wife. But in the back of my head I was thinking of canning season and feet that didn’t throb and I knew it was really a gift for myself.