Today was laundry day.
The never-ending battle is bad because if you stretch it into multiple days, it seems never-ending. But if you D-Day it- all in one fell swoop- sure, it's rough, but it's over for a week. This is the theory I'm running with.
The other thing I do like about laundry day is that it kind of does itself. You can toss a load in and do something else while it runs. This enabled Kenna and I to make a surprise visit to Kristin at work. It was only partly to be nice, I have really just been curious about her working space, and wanted a mental image to go with the stories. The surprise was almost blown by the secretary, but then, realizing who we were, she didn't call ahead. We arrived at the room to find it locked. A teacher across the hall pointed out she was in the teacher's lounge- a place she'd not gone to before. We were shown where it was and Kristin was duly surprised. Could be the surprise was due to simply seeing us, could be because the first thing Kenna said was "Is tomorrow show and tell at Mother's Day Out?"
We did get to see the room and spend a little time with her, then we headed home for lunch. There, the laundry battle resumed. There are two cool things about laundry, one of which I just discovered today.
One is that Leslie and Kenna have round clothes hampers that are the perfect size for the door on the washer. I simply line it up and punch the back and like a cannon -BOOM- out shoots the clothes into the washer. OK, I make the boom noise myself to keep with the D-Day analogy. And yes, I know there were no cannons on D-Day. This is a small pleasure, but it helps me.
The other thing I did learn new was that when doing lots of laundry, detergent gets in your fingernails. This lead to today's revelation of a great way to get me to stop biting my fingernails.
After picking up Leslie, the three of us went to the comic book shop and then the cookie place on the mall. I feel that giving my kids M&M Double Doozies from Great American Cookie Company and sending them off to church is just good, clean fun.
Then it was finishing up the house cleaning for our church small group tonight. As I type this, Laundry D-Day is still going on, but the enemy is reeling and on the verge of defeat.
Vive la liberte!
Or, "Yaaaay for clean clothes!"
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