I've been reduced to 'casual wear'dryer

Since we've been home from Ethiopia we've suffered from jetlag, fever, cough, runny nose, lack of sleep, zero sleep, good food, bad food, too many activities on the calendar, three people in our bed, too many doctor visits, unseasonably cold weather, family adjustments, too many things on the work to-do list, attachment adjustments, too much laundry, grumpy mama, grumpy daddy, colds again.

But, today was the final blow. I love to hang clothes out on the clothes line and/or the drying racks in the house but I can't seem to get our clothes from the washer to the clothes line/drying racks. Nope, the clothes are feeling lonely and sad waiting for me in the washer. I know if I would blink twice Eric would say, "Let's drop them off at the dry cleaning place and pick them up in a couple of days when their washed, dried and folded." There are two concerns I have with that: 1) The cost 2) Someone seeing and touching our laundry. Humor me. I can't get over #2.

Some might say I'm OCD about our laundry and I'd tend to slightly agree as I hate to put any clothing items in a dryer that can be dried on a rack and then guaranteed to stay like new. Laundry has been kicking my rear-end though. I'm averaging a load every 2.3 days which just isn't cutting it. So, I decided to take a closer look at our clothes dryer and see if one of the 30+ settings would promise to dry our clothes and not shrink them. Low and behold there are multiple settings that should work if I'd only try them. Why not try the 'casual wear' setting Deb and see what happens?! I'm to the point where even if I mess up and our state of the art dryer shrinks some items, I've got to believe that it will save me time.

It worked; It's an amazing contraption that there dryer. With three kids 6 and under I've now realized that I'm no longer Wonder Woman and the laundry can, and will, get done if I trust in the machine that was designed to help with drying clothes. My goal is one load of clothes per day. If that happens it means I'll have so much extra time on my hands that I can kick back and eat bon bons on the couch while having my nails painted by a house-calling manicurist. (Is there such a thing?)