Washing

It's been a hard week. Little monster #2 made me use this machine everyday, same load, blankets and pijama. So the rest kept waiting, till today.

One of my favourite duties is to do the laundry. I must hate dirty clothes, cause I don't see the beauty in the process, but when there is no more to wash, I'm happy and I enjoy the whole process.

When we arrived to Mexico DF, the flat we rented didn't have a washing machine. I was shocked, but even more when I learned that not many homes had one, for a very simple reason. Mainly, many people considered laundry is better done by hand, sometimes it was the lady of the house that would do it, sometimes the cleaning lady... I heard some ladies seriously saying that they did it themselves cause it was the only way the clothes looked good. God, I'm awful at hand washing...

We bought the washing machine, our landlady paid for the installation and kept it afterwards. We bought the american kind, must say it was awful for the clothes, so I got to understand completely the mexican housewifes! So in our flat we installed the type we were used to, just like this, in Spain we call it front load, maybe it's called the same way.

Today our afternoon plans flew away cause the whole family had a non-programmed nap, a 3 hours nap. That's very very weird. Only patient father likes to have naps. I'm better without them, cause I wake up in such a bad mood that not even I can stand myself. And little monsters? #1 stopped having naps long time ago and now, we never get her to have one unless we are in the car. Monster #2 never really got to love naps, slept perfectly in the night, hardly took a nap in the day, never mind how stubborn mother kept trying.

So fun plans flew away, home duties took place. Buying, cooking for tomorrow and giving lots of work to this beauty...