Laundry is My Nemesis

SERIOUSLY -
In a family of SIX, there is a LOT of laundry.  It feels like a never ending task.  But I enjoy doing it.  I love the smell of fabric softener.  I love seeing an entire pile of folded clothes sitting in the basket, waiting to be put away.  There are not always tangible results of my work around our home, but clean laundry is a picture of hours of my time.

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I know everyone has a "way" to do their laundry.  You sort certain things, you fold certain things, etc.  I fold underwear (my roommate in college made fun of me for this!).  I match socks.  My socks and Greg's get folded in pairs.  The boys get rolled because they will mismatch pairs when they pull them out of the drawers if I just fold them.  I put everything neatly back in the basket and lay all of the pieces that need to be hung up in the closet on top.

The top picture is Jake's laundry.  I recently went through his drawers and closet and put all the "baby" stuff up.  I'll save the drama and say it was a rough morning for me!  I also went through and picked out all the next size up for summer/spring out and washed all of it.  I spent an hour this morning putting all of his clothing away, changing his bed, etc.

The second picture is Andy's laundry.  I also went through his drawers and closet this morning.  I spent another hour doing that and putting his clean clothes away, packing up clothes that were too small, changing and making his bed.

The third pile is a stack of clean clothes I laid on the bed last night for Greg to put away.  I guess he was too tired so he stacked it on my cedar chest at the foot of the bed :)

The sad thing is  - I spent a good portion of yesterday and today doing laundry.  Already today there are dirty clothes in each hamper!!!

One last story about laundry - yesterday I took the water hose out of the drain in our laundry room (inside the wall) and poured some Drano in the pipe.  We have an older house and occasionally we have to do this for the drain.  If not, the water pumps out from the washer and spills over.  The last thing Greg told me with his instructions was to make sure and replace the hose.

LUCKILY I was still downstairs and listening when the water began pumping out of the wash cycle and realized - I forgot to replace the hose!!!!  Needless to say, I created quite the mess to clean up in the laundry room.  Mopping the floor, drying the wall, and twenty minutes later, I resumed that wash cycle!

How do you feel about laundry?  Do you pray over your family as you clean their clothes?  Do you dread it and put it off as long as you can?  Tell me what you think about it!!!