Daily Diary

Would anyone like to come and do my laundry? I typically run one or two loads daily, and then on Saturday the washer and dryer run all day long non-stop. As long as I maintain this, and I don't have three kids wet the bed, we are doing all right. But the last three Saturdays I have not been able to do laundry- so we are drowning in mountains of clothes. Jonathan, Caroline and I worked on it for quite awhile last night, and we didn't seem to make a dent. Winter laundry is worse than summer laundry by far. In the summer you have a t-shirt, underwear and shorts for each kid. In the winter each kid: T-shirt, underwear, socks, sometimes long underwear, pants, shirt, sometimes sweater. So you can see that multiplied by 6 that is a lot more laundry. It's rather demoralizing. Maybe that is because I don't have an actual laundry room. The washer and dryer are simply in the hall that connects garage and kitchen.

For anyone who cares, we've decided not to take Maya to the pound. It would be tragic for her to be euthanized-though I feel fairly certain it wouldn't happen. I took an ad out in the AJC, and sent out an SOS to my girlfriends who've voiced an interest. Two families who were very interested in her changed their mind because...they want a really big dog! There's something I never would have seen coming. I would have thought Maya's small frame would make her more appealing.