I'm feeling the "Two Steps Forward, One Step Back" syndrome again.
As usual, there's the problem with the laundry. I spent all day Friday and Sunday doing laundry just to see an overflowing laundry basket again last night. The vicious cycle of "school/church clothes," then "play clothes" then "decent clothes to run to the store/library/sports practice so people don't think my children are abused" is adding up to at least 15 outfits a day. It can be more because the girls sometimes need a 4th "just to drive my mom insane" outfit. Winter is the worst too because everything is long sleeved and bulky. Plus my kids have this annoying habit of growing meaning that each year the laundry volume due to larger sizes keeps increasing. I kinda miss the loads of twenty baby outfits worn in one day and changed due to spit-up and poop. At least twenty baby outfits was only a medium sized load. Twenty big kid outfits is like three large loads.
Scouts is also kicking my butt. We made it through Thinking Day and the local Boy Scout food drive so I breathed a sigh of relief. But now there's the Pinewood Derby and camping trips and meetings to plan. I can't cross anything Scout-related off my list without three new things popping up.
And last but not least, there's my Etsy store. Don't get me wrong, I really do love that people are buying my stuff. But I'm trying to sew and list at least 30-50 items (an acceptable amount by most Etsy shop standards) and people keep buying my stuff and lowering my numbers! That's probably the dumbest thing ever to complain about. I'd just like to reach 45 items and feel slightly "done" with sewing and listing for about week.
All the "wow, I'm actually selling stuff, crap now I have to make more" complaining aside, I finally have a few knitted items available, including adorable little shawls for girls. I originally knit them for the twin's First Communion but the color is too ivory (ordered the yarn online). So I'm knitting them again in a whiter white for the twins and offering the ivory ones for sale. Wouldn't they be cute over a spring dress? (Click the picture to go to the listing.)
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Time to get back to the laundry...
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