I'm doing laundry. Mostly towels today.
They all were in the queue behind the stuff
The kids had worn, and needed right away,
Like favorite pants -- they never have enough
To go a day or two, or even three.
So only the essential things were done,
Like shirts and socks, a couple things for me;
But anything that I had in the sun
To dry or disinfect, would have to wait.
Until tonight, from roughly six to eight.
There's lots of other stuff I have to do.
I'm catching up. Th'apartment's cleaner too.
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I love laundry memories and laundry writing. I am terrible at it myself by the way. It takes TIME! It's sort of an art. Mine is heaped up in a pile at the moment. And it was heaped yesterday, too.
Sweet poem. 'nite. :-)
@PattyJane. I didn't see any line about "neatly folding" in Bard's poem.
PattyJane: my mother stopped spoiling us when I was around 12 -- I think she was tired of trying to tell whose socks were whose (and we probably complained terribly when she got it wrong).
ladyslipper: it's so nice to write something on a subject I think of as so ordinary, and have it come back with the label "joy". You lifted my spirits extra.
dlv: oh, there may be one about diaper changing yet. Depends on how deep I have to trawl in my memory for subject matter. Thank you for avoiding calling it women's work -- I would have had to put you out back to smoke your stinky cigar.
Pilgrim: Yes, they left reminders everywhere. All over the table, their beds, the kitchen floor, etc., etc. I cherish it, and then I vacuum.
anna1liese: Yes, this is Laundry #2. There's a link to Laundry #1 way down at the bottom of this page, on 1/1/10. My outlook has improved some over the last four months.
Thanks again everyone, all who commented, and all who were just passing through. More to come.