Friday, August 24, 2007


Right now, as I writing this blog, keep in mind my two year old son is trying to bite the snap off my shirt...hhmmm, what is missing in HIS diet?

Here the three little ones are working on a project with their nanny! Looks like fun to me...

Anyway, in my household, here is a note about the laundry in a normal week...

There are seven of us - seven people will create the following dirty clothes:

49 pairs of pants/shorts/ or skirts

49 shirts

35 pairs of underwear (two are not potty trained) however, we have at least 70 changed diapers a week

21 pairs of socks - it is summer, the little ones and I don't wear socks in the summer - only three of us do

42 towels ( we try to use them more than once)

14 washclothes

6 sets of sheets

That is 216 pieces of laundry - per week - in a month that is 864 pieces - in a year it is 10,368 pieces of dirty laundry...of course there is probably more, as four of us will start to wear socks in the winter, we will wash coats, jackets, etc...and of course, don't forget we have a teenager. Yes, he is a boy, but there are days where he will wear two or three sets of clothing - depending on what he is doing, and we have uniforms, doll and Barbie clothes, stuffed animals that maybe has some thing unidentifiable on it...what else? I am sure there is something else!

What about toilet paper? When people think of big families and the expenses, usually they think about what goes into the body, not necessary what comes out of the body! Toilet paper seems to "run" out of house...no pun intended!

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A catch up blog...

Kaycee had her first ENT visit yesterday. And all we had was wonderful news about her hearing and her ears. First of all, Leonard was the one who took her to Children's Hospital. This was something by itself...but dad did really well.

Anyway - back to Kaycee's ears...

As we knew, without hearing aids, she is profoundly deaf. She really does not hear anything at all. HOWEVER, with hearing aids, she has normal hearing. PRAISE GOD!!!! What a great gift!!!

So we are making an appointment to get her a hearing aid but more important, we are making an appointment to allow her to hear!

Next...three days ago, school started. Jacob is now a freshman, a 5'10", 140 pound FRESHMAN!!!!! Cannot believe that! In addition, Nathan is in 7th grade! Kylie will start preschool next week, and mom is feeling very sad!

AND, last but not least - I just turned in my final for my child development class - whew! Just in time to write another paper for my class that starts Wednesday and try to figure out what I am going to do in my second class that starts Monday!

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