Second, "Are those pictures from the washer real?" My answers have been, sort of, and Yes.
I have been doing all of my own laundry since about 7th grade. I hated Jr High. I mean hated it. I started my first day with a buzz cut, braces and a goose egg on my forehead from catching a baseball with my face. I tried so hard to be who I thought my friends wanted me to be instead of being myself (hell I was in my 30's before I stopped doing it). Well one day my Mother washed one of my favorite pairs of shorts and shrunk them and turned them blue. I flipped out. She had ruined my social life from that point forward. I would never be the same. Society would now shun me my entire school life. Mom being who she was, let me scream it out. The next day I found instructions typed and hanging above the washer and dryer. I was now on my own. She would no longer touch my clothes. I was left to separate, wash, dry, fold and put away my OWN laundry. It was a powerful lesson on being responsible for yourself, and to a lesser extent, don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Now I don't do all the laundry. Full disclosure here, though. When we first were married I insisted I do all the laundry. However, six months I decided to wash every pair of jeans and khakis we owned. It was a awesome gesture on my part, except I washed and dried them all with a tube of Chapstick. Minty fresh and grease stains. Yay me. From then day forward Mandy does her own clothes. But since having kids, its been a team effort as marriage is supposed to be. We both tackle the different tasks that need to be done. It's how we work and it's how we have made it work for 14 years now. There is no man jobs or women jobs (except trash I've found out. Oh and toilets, I get those too. Poop scooping after the dog is all me....), it's a shared responsibility. Even cooking. Mandy does most dinners and I clean up. I do breakfast on the weekends and anything on the grill is mine. So, yes I do the laundry and I wear a skirt while doing it. Don't judge.
The second question, yes all of these pictures are REAL, not staged. Any of you with more than one boy can probably relate to finding gems in their pockets. I'm sure girls do also, but since I have no daughters, I cannot comment. That is how the idea was planted for this. Almost on a weekly basis I would find coins, Legos, dirt, rocks, candy wrappers in the washer. I even found a pocket knife one time. Wait what, that was mine? Oh. Moving on then. Every item found had its own significance to its owner. Every item had a story behind it. I wanted to share with friends and family those stories. So yes those pictures are not staged and are real.
Sorry this one went a little long but I wanted to delve into those two questions. I missed Lego of the week this week. Life got in the way. I still have some Connorisms to share. Lastly, thank you for reading this and all the positive feedback I have received since starting this. Thank you.
Phillipians 4:13
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