Just how much laundry can a family of 6 produce, you wonder. Well, I'll tell you: A LOT! It's no secret that I'm a big fan of routines. They are my peace in a chaotic world. However, there is one routine my inner brat really hates. Really! You guessed it. The Laundry. Hate it. Really. Really. Hate. It.
OK. Enough whining.
This is what happens after 5 days of ignoring my routine, which is to wash, dry, fold and put away a minimum of one load of laundry a day. I have excuses, I mean good reasons, for why I ignored my duty to the laundry monster. But you've already heard them all.
7:00 am
- Get up, make the bed, shower and get dressed
- Enter the living room, see laundry on couch and remember 5 loads of laundry waiting to be folded and put away
- Put a load of darks into the wash
- Unload the dishwasher
- Put the darks into the dryer
8:00 am
- Dig out one outfit from the pile for Maya
- Make breakfast, feed the baby
- Load the dishwasher
- Add one load to the pile from the dryer
- Take Makenna to school
9:00 am
- Start movie for the girls
- Spend 15 minutes avoiding the living room
- Fold and put away approximately 1 load of laundry
- Wrestle one diaper onto baby
- Put baby down for nap
- Make a snack for the girls
10:00 am
- Take one phone call
- Fold 2 loads
- Get drinks for the girls
- Answer email
- Consider donating remaining laundry to Good Will
- Put away folded laundry
11:00 am
- Get the mail
- Do internet seach on laurndry services
- Fold remaining loads of laundry becuase hiring a laundress is cost prohibitive
11:30 am
- Put away laundry
- Take an oath to never let the laundry go again
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