My Brain Hurts

I hate laundry. I really think I have more laundry than a typical household of ten people.

Seriously.

For those of you that have toddlers, you know that they wear around 2-3 outfits a day, due to various food and drink spitting, getting into markers and whatever else. I would be okay with this, if that were the only person in my home that wears 2-3 outfits a day.

Enter Emma. When she gets home from school, she wants to instantly wear her "comfy clothes". So she takes off her school uniform (who could blame her) and puts on a t-shirt and sweats. However, she won't wear the same t-shirt and sweats to bed, therefore changing into jammies. So first thing in the morning, I instantly have 3 outfits that need washing...just from one child. When you add that to Livi's, it makes 6.

I'm also a huge contributor to this fiasco, because I, like Emma, love my comfy clothes. However, I refuse to wear them out of the house. So, in the morning, I wear the t-shirt and sweat combo and then when I go out, I wear my regular clothes. Then I come home and put on my same outfit from the morning. When I work out, I wear completely different attire that doesn't qualify as "comfy clothes" so that makes 3 total outfits for the day. If you are keeping track, that makes 9.

Both Jeremy and Landon are pretty low-maintenance when it comes to clothing, however, they are both very clumsy accident prone and usually have various food and drink stains on their outfits at the end of the day. Jeremy will then change into a t-shirt and shorts, but will also wear these to workout in. Landon hates to change, and if forced to removed his stained clothing, he will opt to spend the rest of the evening, including bedtime, in his underwear.

So, this makes 2 outfits from Jeremy and 1 from Landon. In total, I have 12 outfits to wash at the end of each day. That makes for about 2 loads. If I keep up on it, it's not so bad. If I don't...at the end of the week, I have about 14 loads of laundry to do.

Jeremy wonders why I get so frustrated with laundry. I think it's because it's a task that never results in closure. When you organize or deep clean a room, you can look at it and know that it's going to look that way for at least a few days, and you can feel a small sense of accomplishment. When I finally finish that last load of laundry, the very next day, I have 2 more loads...it's never ending and I never feel like I accomplished anything.

I didn't keep up on the laundry at all last week, so if you are curious to know what 14 loads of laundry looks like, here it is....


Emma walked passed me as I was sorting through this pile and I said, "Emma, how on earth am I going to get through all this laundry?"

Emma replied, "use your brain honey" and kept walking.

Thanks for the support. So, now the kids are at school and Livi is in bed. What am I doing right now? Blogging.

Not laundry.