How do you mend . . .

. . . a broken washer? la-la-la I had a mountain of clothes to wash today so I got started as soon as the girls went out the door to school. The third load rinsed and then it looks like the pump or something went out. There was a lot of water in the tub and it won't spin. It's a Kenmore Elite HE3 washer.

I just went in to unplug it to reset it. It might be working. It drained and is spinning right now . . . . Stay tuned.

The reason I have time to do laundry now is the girls went back to school yesterday. Well, I should say C & E went back and S went.

Can you tell who was just a little bit excited to be starting school? Actually, all three are delighted to be going. Their school is a small one and there is only one second grade classroom so C & E are together for the first time in elementary school. So far so good.

And so far so good on the washing machine front. I bravely put in a load of jeans and I'll see what happens. Those are going to be a bear to wring out manually if I have to do what I did with the load of colors. Crossing my fingers here.

edited to add: misplaced optimism above. Boohoo