The Best Text Ever

MOM MOM I DID THE LAUNDRY This announcement came via text  from my fourteen-year-old daughter. At the time, I was in Florida with my parents for a short vacation and had left my two daughters to fend for themselves in the care of my housework-challenged husband. (Wait, is “vacation with my parents” an oxymoron?) Sometimes, […]

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White Towels, High Heat

“Mom, what are you doing?” my daughter asks.  I am kneeling in the upstairs hall, peering through the viewfinder of our SLR camera, taking photos of the laundry hanging over the foyer railing.   “I’m taking pictures for my blog. I’m going to write about the laundry.”   “Right,” she says. She heads back into her […]

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