“Just put it in the dryer. It’s not the end of the world.”
I’ll save you the suspense if you are a scroller, that there’s ^the best mom advice anyone has ever given me.
Yes, I’m serious.
You see, after staying up until 1 AM more nights than I care to admit, hang drying ALL of our laundry – those words were a balm to my spirit.
Everything but towels, socks, and sheets were to be dried. That’s just how things were when I was growing up. My mother hung it all to dry. Hang drying made clothes last forever.
I still have t-shirts from middle school 20 years later because of my mother’s laundry perfection. They look brand new. She might not have juggled 5 kids, homeschooled, all while having a full-time job – but the pressure to make my kid’s clothes last didn’t care that our situations were different.
Oh no. That stubborn mom guilt never cares.
So everything was hung. At the cost of rest and a sound mind, the clothes were hung to dry. They looked great, but my spirit was weary. Nothing like a massive laundry pile that you cannot conquer to make you feel like a mom failure.
As I was complaining to the angel of laundry my mother about how exhausting it is to hang dry laundry for such a big family in a tiny apartment she uttered the best mom advice EVER.
“Just put it in the dryer. It’s not the end of the world.”
You could have knocked me over with a feather. If the women who spent the first day of any vacation ironing every outfit we had packed says it’s okay to use a dryer, it must be true. I mean, her clothes are practically eternal.
The Best Mom Advice Ever Revelation
The revelation of the best mom advice ever – and the subsequent reduction in our laundry per capita have been revolutionary! If it can go in a dryer, it does. And mama, life is so much better with clothes going in a dryer.
As the warm, wrinkle-free clothes emerge from my drying machine of goodness, those words have sunk into my soul. Much like a crayon in a dryer, they have seeped into the rest of my mom-ing. (Or nail polish in a dryer, or pull-ups…ohhh the seeping!)
Just let them eat popcorn for dinner. They’ll think it’s fun, and guess what? It’s not the end of the world!
You know what? Using the dryer is okay. Our clothes survive and so does my sanity. An occasional popcorn dinner is okay. My kids are still healthy and happy. Best mom advice ever.
Not having a dinner plan today, is okay. It’s not the end of the world.
Ordering pizza is okay. Going through the drive-through is okay. And big shocker here – Skipping schoolwork to enjoy a sunny day in the woods is okay.
Letting the dishes pile up in the sink while you play toy cars in the floor with the toddler – it’s okay tired mama.
Going to bed early because you need to sleep more than you need to vacuum the crumbs up – it’s okay tired mama.
Forgoing your plans because your children want to read another chapter, or have an impromptu dance party in the kitchen, or stop to pick you flowers – it’s okay tired mama.
So when you are up against some standard you have set, and you feel like the biggest mom failure in the world, remind yourself of the best mom advice ever:
“Just put it in the dryer. It’s not the end of the world.”
Let me remind you of some life breathing truth- you can put it in the dryer mama. You are doing a good job with those babies Jesus gave you. And, chances are, it’s not the end of the world. <3
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