Mike and I are in a Roadshow. (A ten minute play about how "wonderful" family life is). We are the parents of an enormous family. We are having a great time, and the script is really cute. I just can't imagine doing the laundry for that many children. Before Mike and I had kids, I only did two loads of laundry a week. Logically, since we added three more people to our family, wouldn't that be three more loads of laundry? I don't even know how many loads of laundry I do a week, but it seems like it is always growing. I used to love to do laundry, especially when I was in college and I would go to visit my Aunt Martha. I would bring all my dirty laundry and I would go home with clean laundry. Her laundry room always had such a special smell. I think it was the detergent, but it was more than that; it was my Aunt, her home, and yes not having to pay for clean laundry. So maybe if I could do all my laundry at my Aunt's house, it wouldn't feel like such a chore, and I would get my clothes dirty just as an excuse to go and visit her. Thankfully, I only have three children's laundry to do and not thirty, and maybe I'll go buy the detergent and fabric softener that my aunt used, so I can enjoy laundry again. Until then the baskets of unfolded clothes await me.
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The laundry seems increase exponentially. Technically, it should be linear as you said, but for some reason it isn't. It acts more like when you are having each child make a Christmas gift for each other. If you have two children there are 2 gifts, but when there are 3 children, there are 6 gifts, and when you have four, you make them yourself because that would be 12!!
I just know, when my children were teenagers (loong jeans) I started at 7:00am Monday morning and did not get one week's-worth done until Tuesday evening--going all day!!
"Even as ye do it unto the least of these-----"
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