There’s a dark in the whites!!!!

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Yes, friends, a post about the laundry. Really when I look back over this stage of my life, one thing that will stand out is the laundry. The never ending cycle of washing the dirty and putting away the clean…every day, over and over and over again! It seems that before I ever even think of sitting down for a quick rest in my day I always make a pass through the laundry room to move a load over or fold a warm load or throw a load in the wash. Today was a day just like every other…trying to “catch up” on the laundry (when you go home from the hospital with your brand new baby they should include a paper that informs you “From this day forward you will NEVER be caught up on the laundry EVER again…so don’t even attempt.”). I had a house full  tonight, my mother and father in law, my sister and brother in law and all my rowdy kids (Bryce is working…praise the Lord). At some point, while cleaning up after dinner, I passed by the laundry room door and  noticed that the door was still open on the dryer…a huge pet peeve of mine because the light stays on in there if the door is ajar at all. I headed for the laundry room remembering that I had pulled out the mattress pad and taken it up to make the guest bed, but never made it back to fold the rest of the load. I slammed the door shut and pressed the Touch Up button to warm up the load of whites, making a mental note as I walked out of the room that I needed to be done tucking the kids into bed in 20 minutes so the clothes would still be warm enough to fold. Then…. I paused in the doorway noticing a noise coming from the dryer, and my brain starts processing…”What is that?”……..”Did I put the soap cup in the dryer again?”……..”Gosh, that is a weird noise!”……..”Maybe, a tennis ball got in there again?”……”That is a really loud thumping noise…hmm, weird”…..turning around to look at the dryer…..”WHOA!!!”…..”The entire thing is rocking back and forth!!!”…peering down into the window on the front of the dryer…”Why is my dryer doing this? What is going on? Noooo, it can’t break, not now!” …squinting through the glass trying to figure out what dark thing got put in my load of whites…mildly freaking out at what is going on with my possessed dryer…”WHAAAAAAT  THEEEEEEEEE HEEEEEEECK?“…and then the yelling starts…”OH MY GOSH!!!! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Ohhhhhhhh my gosh!” …as I finally open the dryer door and my very large cat literally flies out and doesn’t hit the ground until he is out the laudry room door and skidding around the corner heading for upstairs. *I will now make the disclaimer that no animals were harmed in the making of this story* I went searching for Harley and found him under the guest bed, wide eyed and completely uninterested in forgiving me at this point in time. He’s got a lot of padding, I think he will be okay. Bryce is done with Harley and probably wonders why I opened the door and let him out. The rest of the family got a really good laugh at his misfortune. The kids and I are still feeling bad for our poor fat kitty who will never, ever, ever take a nap in the warm laundry waiting to be folded in the dryer again. Sorry Harley!

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