One Of Those Days

Posted by Karen | Posted in Children | Posted on 18-05-2010

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Do you ever have those days where you question your decision to ever have children?  Yea, it’s those days when it has been raining or snowing for three days and you and the kids are trapped in the house with no escape; the washing machine decides to leak water all over the floor; your two year old stands in front of you with big boy pants on and tells you he doesn’t have to go potty as you watch the pee and poop trickle out of his pant legs; it’s your four year old screaming she never gets to do anything and disagrees with every word you say; it’s the dog and cat throwing up on the floor you just spent two hours cleaning; it’s those days when you just can’t seem to get a sane moment to yourself.
But, then as you tuck those precious beings in their beds and kiss their sweet little heads and realize they were so tiny not that long ago and your heart seems to erase all that bad stuff that happened that day.  And you realize you are the luckiest person in the entire world!!!
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The Neverending Laundry

Posted by Karen | Posted in Housework | Posted on 20-01-2010

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The number one house chore I absolutely despise is laundry!  It is never ending in this house.  No matter what I do, I cannot keep ahead of the dirty clothes!  It’s like someone takes an article of clothing off and it multiplies by three!  It drives me nuts. There are days when I wish I could be Mary Poppins and snap my fingers and the laundry would all be finished with a spoon full of sugar!

The biggest problem I have with laundry is the amount, but what really bugs me the most is the socks vanishing into sock land!  We all take two socks off our feet, but somewhere between us taking them off and them coming out of the dryer…there is always a few missing pairs!  I have an entire drawer in each of our rooms that is devoted solely to incomplete pairs of socks!  Now, that’s crazy!

None of the members of the house really understands the laundry process.  All they know is they wear it, take it off, and it magically appears back in the closet or drawers.  They don’t understand the sorting, the washing and washing, the drying, the folding, the putting away, the hanging up, the sock dilemma.  All the time involved in the actual process!  Oh well, they will not understand it until they are responsible for their own laundry.  Now, that’s a great idea!  If only I could trust my two year old with the washing machine!  Oh, I can see the mess now!

No, this is one job I have to suck it up and get it done.  I have to realize that the socks are happier in sock land, and the mountain of dirty clothes will only go away when the kids go off to college, and I will never be anything close to Mary Poppins!  “Snap, Snap”, nope still doesn’t work!

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