Today I have a guest post up at Squashed Bologna.
Varda, aka Squashed Mom, hosts a wonderful series called Special Needs Sibling Saturdays where she gives kids, like my daughter, a place to be heard; a place where being the sibling of a special needs child isn’t different, it’s typical.
Come see me over there!
I think I’ve done one laundry post in over four years and now I’ve done two in the last week.
Make that three.
Look what I did to my poor 12 year old daughter’s leggings (remote thrown into the picture for perspective).
Anyone have a one year old? Or, a doll? Preferably with one leg shorter than the other.
On the bright side, they smell good! Don’t forget to enter my giveaway from BlogHer and Bounce! You could win a Bounce Dryer Bar and a $50 Visa gift card!
My 12 year old daughter attended an environmental camp over a month ago. She had to pack everything from t-shirts to a winter coat. Ohio weather is unpredictable. It’s not unusual to run your heat and your air conditioning in the same day.
My kid left, and came home, with So. Much. Stuff.
When she returned, her old backpack, which was used for daytime jaunts around the camp, was emptied and tossed to the bottom of the basement stairs. It wasn’t something that needed to be cleaned right away, because she rarely uses it. So, there it sat, on the floor, until I had room in the wash to throw it in. That was yesterday.
The quilt from her bed was the only companion to the backpack in the washer. I played it safe and cleaned them in hot water, given that her quilt is covered with the hair of our younger dog, who loves to snuggle…and shed…and the basement floor is covered with, who knows what.
When the timer went off, I went downstairs, lifted the washer lid and out wafted the most horrid smell my poor nose has ever come across. I pulled out the backpack and noticed that it was unzipped. Then I removed the quilt to find this sitting underneath.
People, that used to be a sandwich.
Apparently, the backpack wasn’t emptied OVER A MONTH AGO and this thing has been decomposing the entire time. All hail the generic zipper bag that kept the contents from oozing out and stinking up my house…until the washing machine got hold of it. Not until then, was the full power of stench released.
You know, all over what was supposed to be clean laundry.
Speaking of laundry…don’t forget to enter my giveaway from BlogHer and Bounce! You could win a Bounce Dryer Bar and a $50 Visa gift card!
My son does everything slowly. Crawling, walking, talking, eating; it doesn’t matter what the milestone is, he hits it late.
He will be ten in May and just started wearing size six clothing and, up until tonight, he hadn’t lost either of his two, front teeth. Ironically, I suffered through watching Tooth Fairy with him just this afternoon. Dwayne “Rock” Johnson in a tutu. I won’t lie, it was painful.
As for my son, he’s pretty excited to know the tooth fairy is coming tonight. Also, shopping won’t be quite as tough this holiday season. I think I know what he wants for Christmas.
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