If You Give a Mom a Day Off...

If you give a mom a day off work, she'll try to catch up on laundry.

While putting clean laundry away, she will decide to go through all closets and drawers since the seasons are changing. She'll pack away summer clothes and make sure all fall clothes are hung up and stocked in dresser drawers.

When she looks in a dresser drawer, she'll find a snack container that one of her kids put in there. She'll think, "I wonder how long that's been in there," as she carries it downstairs to put in the sink. She'll find the sink full of dishes.

She will start doing the dishes at the sink and notice some cobwebs in the corners of the cupboards. She'll go get the vacuum to suck up the cobwebs and then decide to vacuum the living room, stairs, and kids' bedrooms.

While in the bedroom, she will notice the 6 sets of Legos all mixed up and laying all over the Barbie table. Her type A personality will kick in and she'll start sorting the Legos into proper baggies. She'll become distraught because there are pieces missing so she'll start picking up toys off the bedroom floor to find them.

Along with toys, she'll pick up some scraps of artwork around the room and dirty Kleenexes off the nightstand. She'll take these downstairs to throw away.

As she's tossing these in the garbage, she'll spot an envelope of a bill that needed to be paid so she'll go get her purse to get her checkbook.

When she looks in her purse, she'll see lots of receipts and coupons that need to be organized. She'll grab her coupon organizer (that serves only to hold coupons that will expire before she gets around to using them) to put her new coupons in.

After organizing her coupons, she'll look up while wracking her brain as to why she got her purse out to begin with. That's when she'll notice the dusty fan blades. She'll get a chair and a rag and wash these off and think of how much she loves her Norwex cloths.

This will inspire her to wash off her cupboard doors. She'll clean off dried on applesauce and ketchup and other miscellaneous things she can't identify.

As she's cleaning the lower cupboards, she notices how dirty the kitchen floor is. Just as she is about to spot clean the kitchen floor, the dryer buzzes which means there is another load of laundry ready to fold.

She gets the clothes out of the dryer and takes them into the living room and notices that Ellen is on TV. So she thinks, "screw it!" and plops down in the recliner to relax!