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A day in the life of a laundering mom

About this guest post blogger: Darcy is a part-time work-at-home mother of one entertaining baby girl. She’s been blogging on and off for several years. While the genre and topics may change, her passion has not. Her current passion is writing about parenting, breastfeeding, cloth diapering, and family-friendly products at Tales From the Nursery.

Before having a baby, I hated doing laundry. I would do my best to wear every article of clothing I owned before resorting to such an awful chore. That’s right, I was one of those young college girls who loaded up their car full of dirty laundry and went home every month to wash it all.

After getting married, I still didn’t like laundry. I did mine – he did his.

During my pregnancy, laundry became more exciting – anticipatory, even, but also a little terrifying. (What if she was a he? I thought as I washed pretty pink blankets and dresses.)

Then along came baby. I knew a baby equaled more laundry but I didn’t realize how much more! I went from once to twice a week to every 2-3 days. As the laundry continued to feel never-ending (and a drag), I still somehow decided at the beginning of this year to switch to cloth diapers.

Surprising, I now love doing laundry! I want to wash my favorite cloth diapers right away only to be used again. When I buy new ones, I can’t wait to do 3, 4, 5 loads of laundry to prep them. Who knew washing could be so fun? My daughter seems to find it interesting too. She only gets to go in the basement when I’m doing the laundry during the week while her daddy is at work. Laundry is an all-day task since her diapers, clothes, and burp cloths all need to be done every couple of days.

After the first change in the morning, we take ’em down to get started. Throughout the day we go down to complete each step. (Cloth requires a pre-rinse, a wash, and an extra rinse.) Baby girl curiously observes from her Bumbo chair while mama does laundry magic. By the time daddy gets home – there’s 2-3 loads of clean laundry sitting in baskets in the nursery.

Now, I just don’t like putting it all away!

Comments

  1. Jen - LifeWithLevi says

    I'm not a big laundry fan, but I think it's fun with Levi. He likes to play with the diapers after Jason & I have stuffed and stacked them. I think baby waving cloth diaper with grin is one of my fav moments.

  2. Theresa says

    Laundry seems never ending in our home. We just finished removing a birds nest from the vent. Now I have so much laundry all I want to do is go shopping to buy new clothes. Guess I will buck up and get to cycling clothes.

  3. Amy says

    I dont mind washing lanundry - i just HATE HATE HATE putting them all away... why shoud we? its not like the lil guy wont wear them again this week! (he has his favs)

  4. The Teachers Wife says

    LOL, I used to love laundry, until I had 2 boys! :) You can come do mine for me! It's NEVER ENDING! I didnt even know they owned so many clothes- and they dont even wear clothes during the day so how can they get it all dirty?! :)
    Crystal

  5. Leandrea at Coupons Are Great says

    Man, laundry with kids EXPLODES! My girls are 16 months apart...and the laundry is never ending. But I can't say I like doing laundry now!

  6. ~SALLY~ says

    I really don't mind doing laundry. It's a chore, yes, but there makes me feel like I have accomplished something in my day! And I just LOVE folding those tiny socks and onesies too! :) Good post, Darcy! :0)

  7. Debbie says

    I loved doing my cloth diapers too! I especially loved hanging them out on the line to dry.

  9. Mama Spaghetti says

    I don't mind doing or folding the laundry...For me, the trouble is putting it away!

    Except socks...I hate folding socks.

  10. Being Tazim says

    I recently bought an apartment-size washing machine that hooks up to the sink in the washroom. This makes laundry-time much more fun! I really hated going down to the communal machines and forking over loonie after loonie! Our machine has already paid for itself and it is just so much more convenient! I hang clothes to dry , which is annoying in my little apartment, but it is so worth it to not have to go downstairs several times.

  11. Wakela Runen says

    I used to love doing laundry when mine were little. If you put them in a bouncy chair on top of the dryer, they will actually fall asleep quickly because of the vibrations.

    The room our washer & dryer were in was large so I would bring a book & sit and read while they got a nap. It was blissful!
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