Drowning in Laundry

I cannot believe how much laundry one extra person in the family generates. My laundry baskets are bulging, and I swear, I just did a load of whites yesterday! There must be little laundry gremlins who cackle and multiply exponentially.

Now, I grant you, a newborn baby tends to mess up clothes pretty quickly. I think I could have an entirely separate load of burp cloths and receiving blankets. Today my son went through three changes of clothes in the space of three hours between spitting up and leaky diapers. Yikes. But sweet heavens above, the laundry has tripled. And somehow after I finish it all, the baskets will magically be full again. I have a load of regular towels, dark towels, bleach clothes, off-white clothes, dark clothes, and delicates. Um, and yes, we really do have 6 laundry baskets. Hey, I’m married to an engineer. He believes in separate facilities for each form of laundry to save on sorting.

And now, I’m reduced to blogging about laundry. Do you see what having a newborn does to brain cells? This morning, after a night of feedings at midnight, two a.m., and 4:15 a.m. (each of which lasted an hour and I just stayed up after the last one), I was attempting to make sugar cookies for my son’s kindergarten class. I decided to just use the Pillsbury refrigerated dough that was already rolled out into sheets (could I BE any lazier??). Anyway, I was in the middle of pressing cookie cutters into the dough and was talking to my mom on the phone at the same time. The act of cutting out a cookie and holding a conversation was almost beyond me. I swear, there were moments when my mom must have wondered where my brain had departed because it was just too hard to press the cutter down and answer a question at the same time.

Tomorrow (Dec.19th) I will start tackling the loads, but I will also be hanging out at eHarlequin for their Christmas Open House. It will last all day, and almost 100 Harlequin authors will be participating. There will be book giveaways galore! I’m offering up a signed copy of Her Warrior King and it should be fun. All you do is click here or you can wander around the different Harlequin book imprints here. Come and visit me over at Harlequin Historicals! The boards will be set up, and you just post a comment or two, participate in the discussions, and the authors will be around to answer questions. If you have any burning questions about the MacEgan brothers, or the Irish Warrior books, bring them along! Free books! You can even ask me how many loads of laundry I did! (Or…not.)

And because I will likely be operating on less than four hours of sleep while I’m there, to help me prepare for the discussion, are there any questions you have about the books? Characters? Things you’d like me to chat about? Recipes? Thanks in advance!