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If you read my post below, I hope you didn't get the idea that I was complaining. I actually like doing and folding laundry. That post was just a little snapshot from a day that I took the time to notice how much laundry actually happens in this house. And I had a great quote to go with the pictures so.....

And from Saturday, here's an update: in 1 load of sheets, 1 load of towels, 2 loads of light laundry, 2 loads of dark laundry, and the 1 last load of the day because I hate to have laundry in the baskets on the Lord's Day, I folded 67 pairs of socks with 1 stray left over!! That's about 11 pairs of socks per person in less than a week.

Ok, someone with 5-13 children (more than us), come on, tell us how many loads you do a day and how many pairs of socks you've folded recently. Jump in with comments. We know you guys do laundry...!

I'm off to wash everyone's clothes from today's racking job.

recently and repeatedly...

...over and over and over again. It never grows weary of piling...

(this was eight loads of laundry waiting to be folded, recently. Everything from sheets and towels to 2-3 loads of lights and darks, each. And I've probably folded 5 times that much since these pictures were taken. Off to fold some right now.)

And this is a quote to wade through the laundry with...
"...faithfulness means something precisely because it isn't glamorous. When we don't see the grandeur of God's working, but keep walking close to Him anyway, that's faith. So when you look at the next pile of laundry, look up and rejoice that something so utterly earthly can be taken up into the wonderful story of His saving His world from sin and death. In the light of eternity, you will see how it was so."
~Pastor Ben Miller