........sigh........

Tonight I put the kids in their jammies and then got ready to head back downstairs. I needed to carry down Max, a bag full of laundry, and a quarter pack of diapers. I didn't want to make two trips, so I stuck the diapers in the laundry bag and took that with one hand and the boy with the other. When I got downstairs I deposited Max on the living room floor, and headed to the washing machine. I unloaded half the bag and started the load. A little while later, when the spin cycle began, the washing machine sounded like it was drilling a hole through the wash room floor. I went in to find this:

Yep. That's 30 waterlogged Luvs. Each one weighs 1.5-2 pounds (yea, I weighed a few). This poses a disposal problem, since the garbage truck will only pick up 40 pounds of garbage a week. Luckily you can pay $1 each for extra bags, so I split them up into two bags and attached the appropriate tags. I'm trying not to think about the fact that each box costs $17.99 and I washed 1/4 of the box to the tune of $4.49 plus the extra $2 for the trash. It was a little embarrasing when Israel came down and asked why the washer was making so much noise - especially since he had offered to carry the diapers down in the first place, and I had said "no, I can get them"....