Really?

If you're a parent (especially a mom) you can probably appreciate this quick story. Our house was a complete and utter disaster over the past week and a half. I woke up with a vengeance on Saturday morning eager to get the house back in order. I actually got up at 6:30am to wash dishes. Yes, our dishwasher conked out on us about 3 weeks ago. The same day my cheap-a** Ford Explorer also started giving me problems and my family and I had to carpool all over metro-Atlanta for 3 hour daily commutes.

We decided this weekend to completely wean my daughter off of pull-ups. She'll be 3 years old in June, and she already knows how to potty. I refuse to keep paying $17 every couple of weeks for her to wear just in case she has an accident. Not when gas is $4 per friggin' gallon. But of course, my daughter decided yesterday to keep doing a #2 in her underwear. Of course she NEVER does this when we have pull-ups on her on the weekends as we usually do. So this behavior is the opposite of most kids. Usually, the fact that they are wearing non-absorbent underwear prevents them from "pottying" on themselves. Not my daughter...she's always got to be a challenge. :-) She pooped in 3 sets of underwear yesterday, I believe, and I kept having to take her to the bathroom, wash her off, give her clean underwear to wear, and new pants to put on. One pair of poopie undies she actually placed in the dirty clothes hamper in our washing area without my knowledge. So when I'm going to town washing clothes and getting things clean, I don't even notice that I'm loading a pair of underwear FULL of poop in the friggin' washing machine.

So when I go to unload the washing machine, I notice that the clothes smell HORRIBLE! What the heck?! It occurs to me later that my daughter must have got her poopie undies in the load. Shoot. So I reload the clothes, and restart them in another load with extra washing detergent. An hour later, I go to unload them again expecting to smell nice fresh clothes. They smell even worse this time!!! What the heck??!! I start picking through the entire load this time to figure out what the heck is going on. I figure it out in my head before I actually eyeball the reason right in front of me. The poop wasn't washed from the underwear in the first load. In a nutshell, I just washed poop into ALL of mine, my hubby's, and the kids' nice clothes. Washed poop INTO the clothes?? Come on!! Life is busy and tiring enough...who has time to wash a load of clothes 3 times? I completely lost an entire day of washing due to this incident.

As I was in the middle of typing this post, my daughter ran into my room and said, "Mommy, I pooped on the potty!!" I ran into the bathroom and she pointed proudly into the toilet to display her feat. I gave her a high-five and a big kiss on the cheek! Those kids know how to turn things around and turn Mommy's scowl into a happy smile!! :-)