Wowsers! I have been a bad, bad blogger lately. I haven't blogged in 2 weeks! And I was on such a roll. We have been a little busy around here and well, the blog gets pushed to the end of the list. I have a lot of catching up to do.
The above photo is a picture of Aubrey I took when we went to visit Steve in Arizona earlier this year when he was working. I entered it in a photo contest and was in the top 10. But alas, I just found out today that I did not win. Oh well. Life goes on. Life goes on....
♫ SINGING ♫
Desmond has a barrow in the market place
Molly is the singer in a band
Desmond says to Molly - girl I like your face
And Molly says this as she takes him by the hand
Ob la di ob la da life goes on bra
La la how the life goes on
Ob la di ob la da life goes on bra
La la how the life goes on
(Kristy, I think of you every time I hear this song)
KRISTY! My dear sister Kristy and her husband and 3 children are in Russia! Yes. Russia! Even though they lived in DC (or there abouts) when they lived in the United States, and I hardly ever saw her, I still knew she was only a few, lots of states away. But now. I think about her everyday now. I wonder how she is doing. How she and the kiddos are adjusting. Why she wanted to up and move to the other side of the world. KRISTY! I love you. I miss you. One of these days I will get skype so I can talk to you!
Tonight was one of those nights with Aubrey. I was putting her in bed and she had a "I miss Papa" breakdown. Poor little girl. I was trying to calm down her hysterical crying and I handed her a stuffed dog on her bed that my dad gave to her for Christmas right before he died. I told her to hold it tight and it would help her feel better. Oh boy, that just made it worse. She started crying even more and said that whenever she holds something that someone gave to her who has died, she can feel their spirit and it makes her even more sad. I looked around her room and I was like, "Aubrey, how much stuff do you have from people who have died?" Because as far as I know, she doesn't even know anyone else who has died.
Addy is not allowed to watch Dora anymore. She is learning very, very bad things from that show. There is one episode where Dora makes something Chocolate with her Grandmother. She says "Bate, bate, cha-co-lat-tae". Which means stir the chocolate. So Addy's new favorite thing to do is to "make" things. When I catch her with a chair pulled up to the counter, dumping anything she can find into a bowl, and I ask her what she is doing she says, "I'm making ingredients!" And then she says "Bate, bate, cha-co-lat-tae" while she stirs her ingredients. She has made some pretty major messes. Today it was the pot of leftover mac 'n cheese from lunch, all the grapes from a brand new huge pack from Costco, and cucumber. I wanted to bate her booty.
I have been contemplating moving my family to a nudest colony, just so I could stop doing laundry. It has really been killing me, the laundry, lately. But then, I remembered how I used to do laundry in our old house. I don't know what happened, if it was the craziness from building a house, or moving or what, but I totally forgot how to do laundry. But that's OK, because I remember now. I have been doing it for over a week this way and I am so very glad I remembered. For like, the last year, I have been doing all the laundry in one day. I hate it. It takes forever to sort, then I have piles of dirty laundry everywhere, then I am in a hurry to switch the loads over so I can get them all washed, but I don't have time to fold all of them so I end up with piles of clean laundry all over. Then by the time I fold them, it is an awful task because it is a huge amount to fold at one time, and then my kids have a hard time putting the laundry away because the stacks are so huge.
So this is how I used to do my laundry and how I have started doing it again. I just wash one load everyday. It is so much easier. I hate myself for doing it the other way for so long. We have 3 dirty clothes hampers. One in Zac's bathroom, one in the girls bathroom and one in our bathroom. If I am washing whites that day, I go around to the 3 hampers and get all the whites out, stick them in the washer, then the dryer. No 30 minutes of sorting. No piles of clothes everywhere. It only takes me a few minutes to fold. And the kids can easily take their little stack of clean clothes and put them away everyday. HELLO! All moms out there! Spread the word! You don't have to live with a bunch of naked nasty people! You can stay at home and manage your laundry, one day at a time.
And now, because this song is stuck in my head. And because you can never have too much of the Beatles:
2 comments:
So glad you posted!
Okay, so I do normally only do one load of laundry a day. But I never finish it or I forget to put it in the dryer. Than I don't have time to fold it and than it sits around forever and well. It doesn't get done right. I am going to try again though. You inspired me.
I HATE the laundry. I try to do it all in one day, but if that is ever possible, I would have to be home ALL day and stay on top of every load. I might try it your way, but I think I would be like Farrah, and forget about it.
My solution? In my dream house, we would have a HUGE central master closet with the washer and dryer inside the closet too. The clothes would never have to leave the room - except when we wear them of course.
Since that won't be any time soon, I'm giving up on my husband's work shirts and going to take them to the dry cleaners. That takes care of one load!
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