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Eleven years ago today…I woke up rested.  I got my nails done.  I took my two dogs to the kennel.  I greeted some out of town visitors.  I got dressed up in my new dress and hat and David and I met our  party at Tallowood.  We  rehearsed our wedding.  We all then transferred to our rehearsal dinner.  It was a wonderful dinner with lots of laughs and a few tears, funny stories and wonderful words, encouragement and much excitement for our wedding that was less than 24 hours away.   I remember David’s words the best…mmmm  mmmm good.   After dinner, David and I spent some time opening more gifts and before he took me home we went by what would be our first home together.  We were greeted there with about 100 pounds of  rice all over the walkway and entryway, thanks to my dear friend, Rhonda…I’m still laughing about the interaction he and I had standing right  there in the rice.  Even now. I was trying to figure out when in the world she had done all of that and thought it was quite fun.  David on the other hand was most concerned about how HE was going to clean it up and all the rice alerting everyone that someone had just gotten married and were away on a honeymoon, therefore leaving the place empty and available to burglarize…so sweet of David to worry about the china.  That was a good exercise in how men and women process events differently and it still to this day makes me giggle when I think of our different views at that moment.  David soon took me to my mom’s and she and I giggled and got very little sleep that night.  All to get ready for May the first…my long awaited wedding day.  It still makes me giddy to think about it.

Keeping up with our laundry is so daily and seems very difficult at times.  If I let up even one day, it triples in size.  Some days, the kids change clothes two or three times for valid reasons. For example, on Sunday, if we choose to go out to lunch after church, then that automatically means I have three more changes of clothes to add to the pile because my cherubs cannot eat out without getting it on them.  At this time of the year, we wear warm clothes in the morning and then change to cooler clothes by the afternoon.   And really and truly, no sooner than I get every laundry basket empty with all of the clothes washed and folded that someone wets the bed and gets not only the bedding soiled, but a whole host of stuffed friends who require special washing needs.  It’s daily and it’s relentless.  Sometimes I get a bit militant with keeping up with the chore and I have even  been known to ask for the shirt off of David’s back just to stay current.  Well the other day was no different….I had gotten caught up with all of our post traveling dirty laundry and I walked by the dirty clothes basket and glanced in for the satisfaction of seeing it empty and to my great dismay, it was three-quarters full.  I know laundry and I did not see anyone wearing these culprits.   I went rocket nuclear and shouted out, “Who put these in here” and glared out to the crowd.  Silence.  And then my clever  big bird chirped up and said…”I know what the title of your first book will be Robbie…Nudity, The Practical Reasons For It“.