Today was a Laundro-thon, and if you've ever had to do laundry in a shared laundry room, you understand the complexities built into that sentence automatically. The by the clock drill, checking to make sure that the machine(s) has not stopped functioning, but is still continuing to count down anyway, carrying everything you need back and forth to the room. Now include in this scenario a toddler who insists on going with you to the laundry room, then running up and down the halls after you've finished, making you throw the laundry into your house, then run after said toddler like a crazy person EACH AND EVERY TIME! Now double the toddler.
Luckily I was the luckiest twin toddlers momma with shared laundry in the whole kintire world today! Mrs. Karen Giusti and Mr. S. Marcus Giusti decided that they needed to bring stuff for a certain niece of mine over today, and they offered to fold my GIANT pile of laundry. YES, this is my CLEAN clothes pile. And YES I had more laundry to do beside this! 5 loads to be exact! And YES, our closets were empty! I had done all of our laundry at both my sister's house (and dragged it home) and my house (and worked around the twins). Every time I have tried to fold with the twins awake, they "help" and unfold everything. And when they were napping, I took a shower and got ready for the day and did the other million things that go into making a house run!
So today, my husband (aka the most wonderful man, who I am lucky enough to have married and bore children) took the wheel and made dinner! This is not really unheard of, as Raymond loves to cook almost as much as I do, especially when it's one of his favorite meals on the slate!
For his meal, the man boiled some vegetable based pasta Rotini, Forman Grilled 4 spicy chicken sausages and 1 mild Italian chicken sausage, and steamed organic Kale from our favorite booth at the market. He then mixed the pasta with some handmade pasta sauce and a generous amount of parmeggian-reggiano cheese, finely grated! The kale he topped with pure olive oil and a medium sized pinch of Celtic gray sea salt. He served this amazing meal with a bottle of 2007 Benzinger Soltice Blend (grown on Sonoma Mountain), a wonderful red blend consisting of 60% cab sauvignon, 21% merlot, 11% cab franc, and 8% petit verdot. Mildly tannin-y with a rich dark flavor. I love my husband.
Now as the twins are in the bath, washing off the painstakingly applied red coating from head to toe, I am sipping the remnants of the wine and waiting for the buzzer to go off, so I can put the last load of the day into the drier, and fold and PUT AWAY the second to last load of the day. This day has been yet another truly wonderful one, and I am so very thankful for the family that I married. Nos Pars.
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