What's up with the name?

I know isn't it great!? How many times have you heard expressions like: "I'm so tired I put the milk in the cabinet" or "I washed the dinner and cooked the laundry?"

"Laundry in the Oven" - It's funny - it's a pun. It would look awesome on a t-shirt (come on you know you want one.)

Even non-parents know the feeling of being so exhausted that you feel all jumbled up. If you say you never almost put a fridge item in the pantry, or forgot immediately why you walked into a room - you can't sit with us. Call it exhaustion, call it overstimulation, call it ADHD/ADD - whatever. We all do it!

For this blog full of sarcasm and communal hilarities of everyday life, I wanted something memorable, f/punny, and relatable. And I'm going to keep hyping it up check it out:

• it has a double meaning

• it shows the jumbled brain we all sometimes have

• I'm airing my dirty laundry (get it??)

• and sometimes, things get burnt and sh*t is just on fire.

And you are not allowed to make fun of it because I love it, okay!?

As far as the tagline - "Clean and Fed. Everything else is just a bonus." Listen keyboard warriors I am EXTREMELY aware this is not true and I am a much better parent than mediocrity or bare minimum. It - again - is just relatable. And honestly sometimes essential! We can only do as much as we can do. And sometimes screen-time takes more space in the day than it should. And sometimes it's fried foods for dinner. And sometimes it's celebrating having a moment to do a single load of laundry (if you fold it and put it away, you still can't sit with us you overachiever, you.) I am a better parent when I accept my limitations. Because sometimes at the end of the day - our win is that our kids are clean (you wrangled them into a bath even - see look at you go!) and fed, then we did it. My husband and I pretty frequently after the pterodactyl (heyyyy, I didn't even use spell-check for that!!) madness at bedtime look at each other and say: "We did it. We did today."

And even when you think it won't, the rest will come. I promise.

xoxo

Madi