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Notes from the front lines
Jan. 28th, 2007 11:59 amA baby wearing corderoy pants makes an effective dust mop.
When one runs out of Swiffers, old cloth diapers fill in very nicely.
If the exhaust hose on the dryer is broken, the likely result is a fire alarm going off in the laundry room.
Depression is realizing that most of the maternity wear you're packing away, eight months after giving birth, still fits. This is slightly alleviated by the realization that some of it doesn't look like maternity wear, so you don't have to pack it away.
The Hozone is not the place where one sock in every laundry load disappears to. It's the place where that one sock hides to avoid ever making it to the laundry. It's probably located under the bed.
A rolling sock ball gathers plenty of dust.
Cleaning game: put a baby next to a box of toys while you clean a room, and challenge yourself to keep the room at the same level of neatness it was at when you started. It's cheating to put the toys away while you clean the rest of the mess. Most babies will win the game (their object, of course, is to make a new mess faster than you can clean the old one.)
Reusable grocery bags are invaluable when sorting large amounts of clutter.
I'm off to make scrambled eggs and placate an upset Elizabeth. "Mommy! You have to play with me to take care of me!"
When one runs out of Swiffers, old cloth diapers fill in very nicely.
If the exhaust hose on the dryer is broken, the likely result is a fire alarm going off in the laundry room.
Depression is realizing that most of the maternity wear you're packing away, eight months after giving birth, still fits. This is slightly alleviated by the realization that some of it doesn't look like maternity wear, so you don't have to pack it away.
The Hozone is not the place where one sock in every laundry load disappears to. It's the place where that one sock hides to avoid ever making it to the laundry. It's probably located under the bed.
A rolling sock ball gathers plenty of dust.
Cleaning game: put a baby next to a box of toys while you clean a room, and challenge yourself to keep the room at the same level of neatness it was at when you started. It's cheating to put the toys away while you clean the rest of the mess. Most babies will win the game (their object, of course, is to make a new mess faster than you can clean the old one.)
Reusable grocery bags are invaluable when sorting large amounts of clutter.
I'm off to make scrambled eggs and placate an upset Elizabeth. "Mommy! You have to play with me to take care of me!"
