LaLaGirl – Twinfinite Chaos! Parenting Multiples and Dealing with Autism

Yesterday, the kids and I ventured over to Nick’s Garden Center in Aurora to see how they were coming along with their Halloween setup. Last year, they had this amazing selection of pumpkins, along with lots of fun activities for kids. This year, they assured me that it’s going to be even better – they’re adding a maze and haunted house. Fun! We’ll go back in a week or two and check it out. While we were there, I picked up a bushel of roasted green chiles. Yum! Winter is coming, and I LOVE fresh roasted chiles for making chile rellenos and green chile.

While the kids painted the “baby pumpkins” we bought along with the green chiles, I settled in to make a big, steaming pot of green chile. My meat was sizzling away in the pot when I reached for a box of Swanson’s Chicken Broth – thank GOD I didn’t just dump the thing directly into my green chile, because it was apparently growing an alien baby inside the box. I opened the seal and thought to myself, “Is that MOLD?”

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I cannot BELIEVE the amount of laundry we have accumulated around here. I mean, I know I’ve been kind of busy here and there lately and blowing it off – but I’m shocked to realize that the kids are basically OUT of clean clothes to wear, at least where socks, pajamas, and decent looking pants are concerned. Yesterday, I noticed one of the girls wearing a shirt that is technically part of a Halloween costume. Obviously, it’s time for me to get my ass in gear.

And my OWN laundry is so piled up, it won’t even fit in my hamper. I’ve been randomly tossing things into Paul’s hamper, and he’s starting to notice. I always do his laundry separate from everyone else’s, so his is never piled up like mine and the kids’. And Kayley does her own laundry nowadays. Considering the kids don’t go to uniform school anymore, I should have LESS laundry, not more! I’m blaming the little girls. Lexi in particular. If left unchecked, she’ll change clothes two or three times a day. Little punk!

You know, in our last house, the laundry room was upstairs, about two feet away from the kids’ bedrooms. In our new house, it’s downstairs, next to the garage. It’s less of a laundry room and more of a mud room, really. It’s essentially the passageway for entering and leaving the house, which means I can’t just leave laundry going 24/7. I’m not sure if this has made it easier or harder to stay on top of it all. Actually, I’m leaning more toward the notion that I HAVE done a better job of keeping the laundry done, except for the past few weeks. There have actually been many occasions where ALL the laundry is done and put away – ALL OF IT – which never happened in the history of the world, until we moved here.

I think I’ve adequately psyched myself up; I’m ready to dive right in. Send help if you don’t hear from me soon.

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