Have you ever heard the phrase “I should have followed my first mind?” The statement usually follows an incident where something goes wrong. Someone then swears that a little voice told them to make a different choice and that they ignored it.
On Wedneday night, a little voice told me to do laundry as I pulled the last set of clean underwear from Elyse’s drawer at bathtime. “Oh no,” I thought. “It can wait until tomorrow. There is a basket of clean clothes in the TV room.” I found out the next morning after Elyse had a small accident that the aforementioned basket of clothes was actually a basket of sheets. As I stood in the bathroom drying a pair of panties with a hairdryer, I cursed myself for not following my first mind.
So, of course, yesterday’s five minutes was dedicated to laundry. But after I spent three minutes sorting Elyse’s clothes, I realized that she didn’t have a lot of underwear.
Hold up. I bought a 10-pack of Dora AND a four-pack of Princess Tiana. How is it that I only found seven pair?
I searched my entire house for a pile of abandoned laundry. I looked under every bed. I dug through the hamper in the basement like a miner in the California Gold Rush. There was a hint of white at the bottom. “Aha!” I yelled.
It was one of Mike’s workout towels. Damn. Fool’s gold.
I gave up and washed what I had. When I couldn’t find Elyse’s Dora overnight bag for a trip to Grandma’s, I made a call.
“Momma, do you have some of Elyse’s clothes? I’m packing a bag for her to go to Mike’s mom’s.”
“Oh yeah, I’ve been meaning to tell you.”
“Do you have any of her underwear?”
“I think so, but not that much. Maybe three or four pairs. I’ll wash her stuff and get it to you.”
There are two things I know about my mom. One, “three or four pairs” means five or six pairs. Two, Momma is notoriously bad about laundry. Elyse will have outgrown these clothes by three sizes by the time she gets to washing them.
Looks like I’ll be making a trip to Grandma’s this weekend too.
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MIssing socks are the worst. The second you throw a single away you find the match in your next load of laundry!
Lol – too funny!!Maybe your little girl needs another ten pack of Dora. 😉
That is classic…my 7 year old NEVER has underwear in the laundry. I'm not sure where it goes…but he swears he put them in there!
Haha! Yeah, you definitely need more than 7 pairs of underwear for a kid! At least you found them! All of my daughter's socks seem to disappear a week after I buy them. That was pretty ingenious to use the hair dryer! Haha! You are a great writer! Congratulations on your SITS day!
Stopping by from SITS. I don't have children, but my boyfriend is notorious for taking a basket of clean laundry and hiding it, so I'll think he folded it.
hehehe, I'm glad you at least found the undies!! We have 4 adults in our house and 1 kiddo…I end up with my own, kiddo's and my MIL's undies in my laundry at various times. It's pretty funny when I'm in a rush and pull out…oh, princess panties LOL
Ooh, surprise ending. I thought the underwear had followed those single socks that disappear mysteriously never to be seen again!
LOL…Your mom had her underwear the whole time? Too funny. Happy SITS day.
Sometimes I have just the opposite problem. My girls are 14 and 20, and we have a lot of sleepover guests, and I'm always finding clothes in the laundry that I have never seen before…and I mean a LOT of clothes that have been left behind by someone. So you have a long way to go with the laundry problem. LOL!Happy SITS Day!
Love the, "fools gold" comment! How true!
Happy SITS day! I feel you with every fibre of my being. It is why I named my blog laundry hurts my feelings. I have 3 daughters and the amount of things that go missing on a daily basis are mind boggling! And I certainly know the, "It can wait till tomorrow" feeling.
That sounds so much like me! I can't tell you how many times I've decided not to do laundry & have it bite me in the butt the next day. Sigh…
Happy SITS day! I really need to that voice too. It would save me a lot of time.
Oh, the laundry! I love how they wear clothes for 15 minutes and then throw them in the hamper. I KNOW my mom complained about the same thing but I'm not going to let that stop me …Visiting from SITS! Congrats on your feature!
Very funny. We lose clothes around here all the time too!Here from SITS!
Too funny!