Laundry mishaps

I could totally be a good housewife if I really tried. But, I get distracted.

Or multitask.

Or both.

Usually, it's both and that's why I have four loads of laundry that need to be taken care of, dinner is kind of thought about most days and my kids tend to run naked and wild for a couples hours ... every day.

Things just get crazier when glitter is involved.


Case and point — today as I carried on with one of my normal hour-long conversations with my mom, I attempted to catch up on laundry, consider dinner, decide on weekend plans and make sure the kids didn't die in their quest to construct the most awesome Mega Bloks tower ever.

Never, never, ever think washing a sparkly princess dress with your dark clothes is a smart idea. For some reason I didn't realize princess clothes should be washed separate from normal fabrics, and now I'm going to be a glittery mess at the gym tomorrow. It will at least give back some of the femininity I lack when I'm trying to rip the handles off the elliptical, but still.

Even more awesome than my sparkly, sweated-up self tomorrow is that at some point in the next week, the ever-masculine Boy Wonder will also don his own bedazzled shirt. He got off lucky and only one of his dress shirts was attacked by the sparkle monster, whereas the rest of the load belonged to me. I'm not a girly girl, so this is just uncomfortable.

I'm not going to complain about this new Mommy Fail of mine. I'll just take away from this experience a very valuable lesson learned — No more princess clothes in with laundry that doesn't belong strictly to the Mini Me Duo.