As some of you may know–I’m pretty sure I’ve blogged about it before–my parents traumatized me at a young age with laundry. Suffice it to say, I don’t do laundry. I just don’t. In New York, I dropped it off to be done at the Laundromat. In Seattle, I simply bought new underwear. In Boston, I leave Adam to do it. Oh sure, he complains every now and then, and I tell him, if he actually left it long enough I would<\/i> get around to doing it. But he doesn’t seem to want to wait and see just how long “enough” is. <\/p>\n
So my kids are fully aware that laundry is a “daddy job.” Mommies don’t do laundry. It’s just how life works. Pie, for Hanukkah, got the book Knufflebunny<\/i><\/a>. It was a favorite at her day care and we’d checked it out many times from the library, so she was very excited to own a copy. Doodles got Knufflebunny Too<\/i><\/a>. Our house is full of “Aggle Flaggle Klabbles” and “Snurps” these days (and often at very random times0. But I pointed something out in the book tonight as I was reading it to the kids:<\/p>\n Me: Hey, who does laundry in this book? Even if Doodles doesn’t become a daddy, some day, some lucky person in Doodles’s life owes me a great big thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As some of you may know–I’m pretty sure I’ve blogged about it before–my parents traumatized me at a young age with laundry. Suffice it to say, I don’t do laundry. I just don’t. In New York, I dropped it off to be done at the Laundromat. In Seattle, I simply bought new underwear. In Boston, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-doodles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Doodles: The daddy.
Me: Who does laundry in our house?
Doodles: Daddy.
Me: How come?
Doodles: Because laundry is a daddy job.
Me: That’s right. So you better learn how to do laundry so when you grow up, you can do laundry for your family when you’re a daddy.
Pie: I want to do laundry!
Me: I’m sorry, sweetie. Mommies don’t do laundry.
Pie: But I want to do laundry, too!
Me: Oh, okay. You can do laundry, too.
Doodles: No!
Me: You don’t want to do laundry?
Doodles: I don’t want to be a daddy! But I do<\/i> want to do laundry!<\/p>\n