For all you new parents out there, I have some advice for you. You may want to sit down. Tessa and I will soon be welcoming number three to our home and over the last 6 years, I’ve learned a few things. If it doesn’t help, it will at least make you laugh.

Gentlemen: If you never did your own laundry you better get used to reading care labels, because you are going to wash and ruin more things than you care to replace. When it doubt, wash it on cold. Dry on low. It might take longer, but you won’t ruin it… Well, unless it was dry clean only, but in that case you already messed up.

In addition to now doing more laundry, you get to purchase more things, smaller things than you are accustomed to, that are convenient when you are looking to trip in dim lighting or are carrying the aforementioned loads of laundry.

Your house will NEVER be clean again. God bless your efforts, because we all try yet find ourselves surrounded by fingerprints, crumbs, and Cheerios.

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