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	<title>Lessons from the Laundry</title>
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	<description>How a mom found peace in the piles</description>
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		<title>Bird by Bird</title>
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  Bird by Bird
  
  Originally uploaded by laundrylessons.
 

The laundry basket looks like one gigantic time-leeching entity.  I think I even see tentacles.  When my clean laundry is piled so high that it begins to creep out of the laundry room, it is time to call [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lessonsfromthelaundry.com/2008/06/03/bird-by-bird/</link>
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		<title>Lost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 
 
 
  blog pictures 006
  
  Originally uploaded by laundrylessons.
 

She isn’t looking for the hidden immunity idol on Exile Island.  And she didn’t misplace her keys, because she doesn’t drive.  No, my teenaged daughter is in search of a missing clothing item d’jour.  In the laundry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lessonsfromthelaundry.com/2008/05/27/lost/</link>
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		<title>Real Dirt</title>
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  099
  
  Originally uploaded by laundrylessons.
 

It’s baaack.  Real dirt.  Sure all winter I’ve been doing laundry, washing shirts with spaghetti sauce dribbled down the front and socks with gray tinting the bottoms, but real dirt, nah, I haven’t really seen any.  But as abruptly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lessonsfromthelaundry.com/2008/05/21/real-dirt/</link>
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		<title>Pile of Dispair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 
 
 
  Pile of Dispair
  
  Originally uploaded by laundrylessons.
 

Like something out of an Indian Jones movie, the “pile of despair” is a trap.  The quicksand of the laundry room.  It appears innocent, clean socks, what could be harmful with that?  But if I get too [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lessonsfromthelaundry.com/2008/02/27/pile-of-dispair/</link>
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		<title>Mystery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 
 
 
  Mystery
  
  Originally uploaded by laundrylessons.
 

Yet another mysterious item found its way to the bottom of my washing machine.  The presence of this red ball struck me because I’ve never seen it.  You know how most things that float through your house have a discernable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lessonsfromthelaundry.com/2008/02/06/mystery/</link>
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		<title>Laundry X Games</title>
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  Laundry X Games
  
  Originally uploaded by laundrylessons.
 

Laundry X Games
Did you watch the X Games over the weekend?  You know when skiers, snowboarders and snowmobilers, test their fortitude and good sense, by jumping, spinning and flipping through the winter air.  The X stands for extreme, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lessonsfromthelaundry.com/2008/01/28/laundry-x-games/</link>
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		<title>Magnetic Pull</title>
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  Magnetic Pull
  
  Originally uploaded by laundrylessons.
 

It looked like a slug attacking the washer.  As I passed the laundry room the black blob caught my eye.  Stopping in my tracks to investigate the possible slimy creature, I stoop, examine and breathe a sigh of relief [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lessonsfromthelaundry.com/2008/01/18/magnetic-pull/</link>
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		<title>Tripped up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 
 
 
  Tripped up
  
  Originally uploaded by laundrylessons.
 

I trip over laundry every day.  A basket, wedged between the laundry room door and the back hall attacks my leg and pulls me off balance.  A towel, dropped in the middle of the hall, must be skirted so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lessonsfromthelaundry.com/2008/01/09/tripped-up/</link>
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		<title>Miracles</title>
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  Miracles
  
  Originally uploaded by laundrylessons.
 


The season of miracles is upon us.  I couldn’t help but sit in the candlelit church Christmas Eve and feel the thick presence of hope.  Isn’t that what a miracle is?  Hope answered.  Hope fulfilled.  Hope reassured? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lessonsfromthelaundry.com/2007/12/29/miracles/</link>
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		<title>100% Silk</title>
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  100% Silk
  
  Originally uploaded by laundrylessons.
 

My husband wears cotton.  I’ve known him for twenty-two years, been married for eighteen years, and he’s always worn cotton.  Madras, polos, khakis, jeans, all 100% cotton.  But now, he throws me for a loop and starts buying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lessonsfromthelaundry.com/2007/12/14/100-silk/</link>
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		<title>Thermal Cutoff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 
 
 
  Thermal Cutoff
  
  Originally uploaded by laundrylessons.
 

So my dryer has been repaired.  Last weekend I reported a faint burnt-toast smell and then no heat in the dryer.  But with a fast $114 drop in my bank account I have a working dryer.  The Thermal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lessonsfromthelaundry.com/2007/12/04/thermal-cutoff/</link>
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		<title>Sharing Sweaters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 
 
 
  Sharing Sweaters
  
  Originally uploaded by laundrylessons.
 

My daughter’s sweater has to be hung to dry.  The fiber content has some odd blend, one of them being 15% wool.  I like the sweater because it reminds me of one I had when I was about 14, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lessonsfromthelaundry.com/2007/11/29/sharing-sweaters/</link>
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		<title>Taken for Granted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 
 
 
  Taken for Granted
  
  Originally uploaded by laundrylessons.
 

If you read a blog about laundry chances are the day will come.  Yes, a broken machine plagues my laundry room.  A faint smoky smell infiltrated my small room today, like a match stuck a few rooms away. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lessonsfromthelaundry.com/2007/11/25/taken-for-granted/</link>
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		<title>Cheap Laundry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 
 
 
  IMG_0968
  
  Originally uploaded by laundrylessons.
 

A couple of years ago I saw this sign in Anthropologie.  If you don’t have this uber-chic store within a 60 mile radius, consider yourself lucky.  Because when I walk into Anthropologie I suddenly think that $78 does not seem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lessonsfromthelaundry.com/2007/11/18/cheap-laundry/</link>
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		<title>Raising Adults</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 
 
 
  Raising Adults
  
  Originally uploaded by laundrylessons.
 

I’m not raising children, but really, adults.  Some days I get so bogged down with correcting table manners and making sure teeth are brushed that I forget the big picture.  The details of the day, the weight of one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lessonsfromthelaundry.com/2007/11/14/raising-adults/</link>
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