Home Alone Vol 3

It’s 7:42pm – both babes asleep, am on second glass of Chardonnay.

Life is good.

PS I must confess – I just couldn’t face cleaning poopy top and pants by hand so I threw it in the washing machine and did a whole cycle with just the two items. Oh plus her poopy vest. Washed it all on temp setting “Hot as Hell”. Am terrible water waster and ecologically unfriendly. 

Comments

[Stacey]

As am I, as am I....;)

[Bridgette]

Enjoy!

And I would have done the same thing with the dirty clothes. ;)

[colicmommy]

I'm sure you recycle or something to make up for it. :) Who in their right mind is going to wash baby poop clothes by hand when they have a choice????

(I've also been known to wash AND dry colic boy's favorite "Dinos Jammies" in the machines, by themselves, to make sure they are ready by bedtime...)

Enjoy the wine!

[beck]

"Hot as Hell." I wish my washing machine had that setting! =)

[toni]

At least you didn't just throw the poopy items directly into the trash!
ps asshole :)

[Suzie-Q.]

I always put the poopy clothes into the wash with everything else and put my faith in the miracle of modern technology!
;)
Please have a glass of chard for me.

[Jenl]

yeah, I would've voted for trashin' them outright, too.
:-)

[Liz]

Wow you had a fun poppy day. :)
Commend on the poll. I will click on both answers. Because I think for the working moms it's hard, because they are missing time with their babe(s), and have to face the real world every day. They can take craps from their boss, but still have to come home at the end of the day to put a smile for their babe(s).
As for SAHM, it's hard work to take care of kids. It's a none-stop action as you have experienced. (Why am I not losing weight when I'm constantly chasing after my daughter? :)

[MollieBee]

Toni-

I do throw the poopy things out. After 3 years of rinsing things out I decided, fuck it.

Yay Tertia! Drink that wine baby.

[heather]

hay, Tertia, that poll is unfair! you need an option that says 'sucks to be either SAHM or WAHM' ;p
or, 'i'd give anything to be either...'

[Judy]

Ew - runny poo - those kids are letting you have it while you're home alone, eh?

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[Stefanie]

I work with a bunch of tree huggers - that hate me! LOL I've run the washer with just 1 or 2 things too - but I'm not washing anything by hand!

[rebecca]

I have to confess that if the poopy clothes were that bad I probably would have thrown them out (especially if I had already done laundry). This is because I am incredibly lazy. However, I would have performed a nice rationalization by saying to myself that he wouldn't fit into that outfit much longer anyway.

[suzzcq70]

Guilty of trashing poopy clothes here! I was having a day like you're having now and I just couldn't face it. I justify it by telling myself he is outgrowing these clothes anyway . . .

[Shauna]

I've always wondered how moms deal with poop on clothes...do they try to scrape the excess of into a toilet first (and with what implement? Something disposable?). Maybe this is what caused washer designers to come up with the "2nd rinse" option.
Poop on clothes is yet another mystery of motherhood that I pretend will never happen to me, should a baby ever arrive in my life. One can have fantasies, no?

[Dani]

Yes, I've thrown away a few badly poopied outfits over the last ten years. But... have you ever CUT A ONESIE off of your child to avoid pulling the poopie mess over their face and head??? I have. NUMEROUS times. I figure if I don't want it on my face, I surely don't want it on theirs.

My washer has this really useful "pre-wash" cycle. I put the offending articles in on that cycle and after they've run through, I add a enough clothes for a full load and run them through a full cycle. It keeps me from feeling like I'm washing an entire load of clothes with poop-water. :)

Rose planned this, you know. Really good nannies have a sixth sense about the kids coming down with something.

Not. A. Coincidence.

[Panda]

You WILL burn in hell, you know.

[Terri]

I've done that cut the onsie of thing! Thought I was the only one!

As much as we love our kids, bedtime is always such a pleasant time. So quiet. Soooo relaxing!

Enjoy it T.

[scott]

Sometimes you just have to throw the stuff away (especially if it gets poopy while you are away from home)- Remember, you can always buy more.
From bitter experience: It is a matter of time before you are haemorrhaging poop from every orifice. Those spuit-poep illnesses are very infectious.

[Faith]

You a-holes, you!!!! Here, Dharma is almost 9 months, and I had NO IDEA that I had the right to throw away the poopy clothes with impunity!!!!

Why didn't you all tell me BEFORE I let the poopy clothes sit in grocery bags, rotting for months, as I waited for the time when I had finally worked up the courage and maturity to deal with them like a grown woman?!?!? You jerks. I'm taking the old clothes out to the garbage can tonight.

.........Somebody pass me a glass of Chardonnay.