domestic dump

I suck at laundry.

I can't keep up with it.  It never ends. No matter how much effort I put into it, or how dilligent I am about it,  it just keeps coming back.  Like mould in a warm moist place or a bad fungal infection.

Before I was married, it didn't really bother me. It was a fact of life. I even did my boyfriend's laundry.

Once I got married, I noticed how alarmingly fast the laundry multiplied, but I just did laundry more frequently and it was under control.

11 years , 3 kids, and many Power Stream "peak consumption hours" later..... this is what happened when I got sick on Saturday (laundry day).

That would all be dirty but my hubby (bless him) brought it all down and washed 95 % of it, while I was ill and in recovery.

It makes me cringe to post this. But you just can't appreciate the full breadth and measure of our laundry situation without seeing it.

Since 3 out of 5 of us have had the stomach flu, and because my youngest randomly takes her diaper off and pees and poops on everything there are still at least 4 more loads to go.

I could rail about the unfairness of the higher rates of "peak consumption" for hydroelectricity being all of the regular week's waking hours (making it virtually unaffordable to do laundry before 9pm unless you want to re-mortgage your house to pay the electricity and water bill when it shows up), which leaves only the option of doing it all on the weekend.

Or I could whine about how my body simply refuses to do laundry after a day that started a 6am with a toddler's screams for milk, cereal and tv, a 10 hour work day, prep, cooking and cleanup that takes up the hours of 5 -7pm,  the lunch making or child bathing, toy tidying or work out time, but I won't.

Rather, I shall post this horrifying before photo and a satisfying after  photo showing off my mad domestic skillz- what what!


BEFORE

The "after" photo is nothing dramatic but I guesstimate that I easily folded over 400 pieces of laundry.

AFTER

Actually 2 baskets are missing from this picture.

It only took me the entire week to accomplish this (insert sarcasm here). Just in time for tomorrow when the process starts all over again.  Feel free to applaud my hard work. And to all you Moms out there who go through the exact same thing, give yourself a pat on the back.  The world would be a dirtier, stinkier place without us. :)