Mamalogues: Pillowcases, Pillows, and Laundry

I used to have time to iron my pillowcases.

We set up the ironing board in our bedroom for the longest time because my husband would iron his shirts. (This has since been replaced with her pack and play.) One night, I just decided I wanted to iron the pillowcases.

There was a set of pillowcases I'd had since I was a teenager. I bought them before I'd met my husband. They were multicolor polka dots with a teal stripe on the side as a more "sophisticated" edge. I'm pretty sure they sat new in the package for over five years. I bought them in order to meet a $25 minimum for free shipping because what I actually wanted was the duvet cover. They weren't folded perfectly in the package so years later when I opened them to actually use them, they were wrinkled.

So that night, I said I was going to iron out the wrinkles and make them beautifully pressed and arranged in the little basket of pillowcases I have in our linen closet. I went over each side of the pillowcase and ironed and smoothed and pressed until the wrinkles came out. They were beautifully ironed and flat and looked so perfect when I returned them to the linen closet in the basket.

And then I had to wash them. Of course, the wrinkles came back.

After that, I gave up ironing pillowcases. After all, we layer two or three pillowcases on each pillow, because, you know, we don't want the nasty yellow stains on our pillows because those are gross. But when you buy $10 pillows, I guess it doesn't matter anyway because they're easily replaced for cheap. But then I decided to go out and get "fancy" pillows because we stayed at the Omni Hotel once and man, I fell for their pillows. They had the nicest pillows I'd ever slept on, and usually I'm not terribly picky. But those pillows....perfectly soft and perfectly firm. Man. Should have just bought some at the hotel after we stayed, but instead I tried to Google the supplier for the pillows the Omni has. I bought those instead (for 1/5 the price of one pillow at the Omni website).

They are definitely 1/5 as good as the Omni pillows.

This afternoon I did three complete loads of laundry. And I mean three large loads of laundry filling the machine each time. I'm not even trying to show off my eco-friendly-ness. There was that much laundry. One for the baby. One for us. And one for our sheets.

The baby decided to take a two hour nap this afternoon which was amazing because I could start and finish each load with about 40-45 minutes between to do other tasks around the house. Hubby helped me to feed her before her nap and get her to sleep, and then, he was able to get some things done on the computer.

Y'all. There is no time to iron pillowcases anymore.