Last week was a busy week. Busier than normal. The floor was installed Wednesday and we had to be out of the house the entire day. So, with my mom's house as our hub, we went Hazelnut picking in the morning and to our swim lessons in the afternoon. We arrived at our house after dinner. The floor is gorgeous. Thursday morning was more relaxed, for the kids. I had an entire house to clean for my first home school co-op on Friday and then a large Turkey dinner on Sunday. The morning cleaning extravaganza was followed by our first choir practice - which reminds me of some songs that we are supposed to be learning and aren't. oops. Thursday night, I was informed by our contractor that his subordinate would be at the house the following day to trim. WHAT! My husband kindly let them know there would be 30 people running around the house. They chose to hold off a day. Phew. Friday saw 17 kids and 5 moms gather in the house for "show-and-tell" and drama. We had a blast. The kids were great. Surprisingly little mess was made. These kids prefer to be outside when possible. Ya. Saturday was spent cooking and preparing for the 16 person Turkey dinner. And Sunday was the event, which was our least stressful large gathering dinner to date.
During the co-op I received a call from my husband. I assumed he was calling to see how the house and I were holding up with all the people. I said that things were great and the builders had decided not to show, so some of the stress was relieved. He was happy to hear that. He then suggested that I may want to rewash the last of the 5 loads of laundry that I had washed the previous day and had left in the dryer because I had accidentally washed and dried a diaper with it. Um, okay. And, yick. That was the end of that conversation. After all the kids left, I headed down stairs to rewash the clothes. As soon as I opened the laundry room door I knew I had a problem. The urine stench was over powering. I rewashed the clothes, opened the window and left the dryer door open, This did not help. When the washer beeped done, the smell was still there. I took a closer look and the dryer was coated with urine diaper glue. Ick. Not wanting to deal with it yet, I closed the door and left. This is how I problem solve. I have to walk away from the problem and ponder the situation. When my husband arrived home from his 3 day leadership course that night, he said that he had to quickly get his clothes off. Ahhhh. Ick, again. He irons his clothes in the dryer and ended up smelling like urine the entire day, confined in a room with 11 people, learning about leadership. Oops.
A few days ago, I was telling ,my sister, who just had a new baby, to never, ever dry a diaper. She burst out laughing when I told her about my husband's predicament and said, "Follow me, I smell like pee!" Sorry, babe.
PS. A smearing of Pink Solution, a wipe down, and then a drying with a very wet blanket washed in pink solution solved the dryer smell problem.
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