The helpfulness of a 6 year old...well kind of!!!!

Only after hours and hours and hours...and telling this story numerous times can I sit back and tell you all about it!

Tristan decided this morning that he was going to help with the laundry.

He came in my room this morning to talk to me. I asked him if he was going to take a shower (for reasons I will not discuss...wink, wink), he said yes and left my room. A few minutes later Bryce came in my room and asked if he could take a shower in my room...Sure I said. Bryce went and got his stuff (towel etc..). He came in and took a shower while I continued to get ready for work. After Bryce was done with his shower he went to his room to get dressed and, of course, they were fighting...so I came into the hallway and told them to stop fighting. At this time I hear the washing machine going. So I asked, "Why is the washing machine going?" Both boys said,...you guessed it..."I don't know". I go to the laundry room...as soon as I get to the door I can smell the BLEACH!!! I open the washer and all I see is dark things...I thought Tristan was washing his bedding. So my first thought was..."oh no his quilt will be ruined" (his Nana made his quilt) So I drain and spin the things in the washer then....I open it up and what do I see....MINE AND ANDY'S CLOTHES!!!!!!!! What in the world? I start taking things out and as I do I get madder and madder...What was he thinking? Oh that little...He is in SO much trouble!!!! I go to the bathroom, he is still in the bathtub complaining that he has NO hot water, and start yelling at him...He still sits there and tells me he didn't do it...Now remember Bryce has been in my room with me almost this whole time!!! So I get even madder!!!!!!!!!! Tristan won't tell me why he did it! I call Andy, who is in OKC, he talks to Tristan and all I hear is "I don't know"...As I start to calm down I realize that Tristan had put a pair of his pants and undies in the washer too! So he was just trying to be helpful! Oh man...what now?! I go to Tristan's room he is sitting behind his door wrapped in his towel (Boy did I feel bad). I called him over to me and we talked about it. I got him to agree that he was trying to wash that load so that we could do another load with his bedding. And I stressed that he had ruined some of my work clothes and that he was going to have to help pay for it. He said I know! And later when he was all dressed for school I showed him what bleach does to dark clothes...and told him that if he would have asked I would have shown him how to do a load!!

Anyways, that is how my day started! Thankfully no one was hurt although I can't replace my clothes right this minute it is something that I can look back on now and laugh at...thanks to the listening ears of ALL the women at work!!! Thanks Ladies!!!!



This is all of my clothes that got messed up!


Here are my black dress pants that I have had for about 6 years and LOVE(D)!!! You know the ones that I probably won't be able to replace because THEY DON'T MAKE THEM ANYMORE!!!! Patti and Renee I wore them to work alot!!! LOL



My black zip up sweatshirt that I wear almost every night when it's cool!


These are my brown cords that I wear to work almost every week!