Welcome Home! Your laundry room has missed you...

Yuck.  Laundry is like a bad habit.  Just when you think you have it under control, it sneaks up on you.  I think it is laughing behind my back the entire time.  Or you know in the movies when they foreshadow?    "Crystal thinks she is all caught up on everything - HA HA HA - but what she doesn't know is that her nightmare is just beginning..."  

OK - it really wouldn't be THAT dramatic.  But, its funny to think about.  While we were gone to Hotter 'n Hell (Jeff's 100 mile bike ride in Wichata Falls, TX), Aunt Joyce & I decided that if we had someone standing on our sidelines, ringing bells & yelling for us - we would be so inspired & get so much more done.  Just imagine, "Come on Crystal - one more suitcase to unpack - you can do it!  Way to go!"  Well, now that I think about it, my mom used to kind of do that when I was a teenager & it made me want to slap her.  (Sorry mom)  

So we get home, I immediately come in, use the bathroom, then proceed to dump our suitcase worth of wet, sweaty clothes in the washer.  When the girls get home, they are mildly excited to see us.  Lauren runs & hugs me & tells me she missed me so much.  Jaci is slightly less excited.  We've only been gone since Wednesday - so a few more days would have done her good.  ha ha 

So - I'm in the middle of getting my to-do list together:

Laundry - check

Bath for the girls - check

Wash Jaci's hair - put off till tomorrow

Grocery store - put off till tomorrow

So as I'm heating dinner up for the girls (pizza that Gary left over), I hear the sweetest sound in the world, or at least the sweetest question - 

"Mom - can I PLEASE make Lauren's lunch for tomorrow?"  Um - excuse me???  You can make Lauren's lunch every day if you want sweetheart!  Its a well-known fact that I hate making lunches, don't try to analyze - there is no rhyme or reason to my madness.  I will say that its a tiny chore that Jeff & I both hate.  Jaci is growing up so much - I love that she can read on the lunch calendar & see that its corn dog day & she already knows she can buy her lunch tomorrow.

So - I'm looking for Lauren's new lunch box - and where else would it be?  Ah - right where it should be - hanging on Jaci's "classroom" backpack rack, which happens to double as my cross-wall in the living room.  See how Hello Kitty hangs right next to Abby Cadabby?

I crack up & think its good to be home. 

 Gotta get - Lauren is yelling, wanting to know why Jaci is wearing a bra & she doesn't have one.  Oh Lord...