It was one of the better pieces of advice my sister gave me... she was talking about raising twins specifically, but the concept is one of the key rules to parenting.
If you think that you are going to get 10 things done in the day and something goes wrong than you leave yourself open to disappointment and unwanted forms of stress.
I was reminded of that this morning when i went upstairs to put the wash in the dryer so that it would be all done by the time the twins were ready to take their nap (nice and quiet)... then i was going to go and vote an go to the park for a nice play.
I guess we will never truly know what happened, and it would be easy to blame our 4 year old girl, but perhaps a massive amount of soap somehow made it into the washing machine through a series of errors on my behalf. If i actually want to take that further i do remember just grabbing all the clothes and stuffing them in... perhaps it might be a good strategy to put things in one at a time. In any event, as i whipped up the stairs ready to do a quick task i was greeted with a wall of suds and all immediate plans were off. Did i mention 16 month old children love bubbles?
It's all good... we got cleaned up put the clothes in the bathtub, looked for evidence, found nothing and we made it to the park and to vote and even found time to inflate tires on the stroller.
Kids are napping now, and although the laundry will have to wait for the 4pm window there is stuff to do in the kitchen now.
It won't be the last surprise of the day.
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