Hmmm... Just when I got done folding the last load of laundry I notice the kids baskets half full already. This week I got out of my regular routine of doing all the major housework on Monday, due to the ever dreaded un-avoidable car registration process. Sure, its no big deal if you can renew online, but, I moved to another state and its a whole different ball game. I bundle up the kiddies and trudge through the snow. We get into the registration building, but What?? I need an e-check paper? Funny that wasn't listed on the "what to bring to the registration office" website. Where is the E-check station anyway? Of course only a mother knows that its not a simple matter to add an extra errand into the schedule, I have hungry children now that its close tolunch time, and without a nap shortly thereafter we are risking melt-down mode. I thought I still had some teddy grahams in my purse-- but I thought wrong! The little tykes are getting heavy now, and without lunch myself I can barely carry the little guy out to the car in exhaustion. Oh-no, the big black race car was on his carseat that I was trying to strap him into, once that is removed, there's the struggle to buckle him up, and I resort to bribes. At least that package of dum-dums is still in the console between the seats! Usually I enjoy an errand where I've accomplished something, but it's quite the opposite when I make a trip out and find out I have to do it all over again, another day. By the time I get home there's more pressing things like lunch, naps, cleaning the kitchen and giving my almost 5 year old some quality time, and she waits patiently while I toss 1 load in the wash... and this was how I ended up with an entire week of laundry. Thank goodness the car was finally registered on Thursday, and next Monday we'll be back on schedule.
