Ironing Out Those Wrinkles

As a full-time stay at home mom and wife, there aren't many complaints that I have about the job.  I love being able to see my kids grow up and reach certain milestones in their little lives.  I love the feeling of accomplishment when you finally manage to get the whole house clean while tending to two children.  I love being able to have supper ready when Brandon gets home from a long day of work.  However, there is one chore that haunts me every single week...

Ironing...it is by far my least favorite chore!  I'm not sure what it is about ironing that makes me cringe, but it's one of those things I always have to talk myself into doing.  It seems like the onset of fall/winter makes me dread it even more because that brings on the long sleeve button up shirts!  I know that I bring on a lot of the ironing myself because I don't like to dry any shirts for us or the kids...I feel like they keep their color a lot better...but this also brings on the wrinkles.  And, I swear they make men's/boy's clothes with material that wrinkles the worst.  My good friend Angie kept a well-stocked supply of Downy Wrinkle Releaser around when we were in college because she hated ironing too.

I have found that this works on my clothes, but it takes a steam roller to get the wrinkles out of the boy's clothes.  So, thanks to Angie I have a few less clothes to iron.  I know many of you are probably thinking I should just take the clothes to the dry cleaner.  Being the frugal person that I am, I would rather complain my way through the ironing process than fork out the money to get them dry cleaned.  Now before you go judging my complaint about ironing...tell me that the sound of a creaky ironing board doesn't give you nightmares too!  In all my years of ironing, I have never opened up an ironing board at my house, another person's house or at a hotel that doesn't have that ear splitting screech when you open it?  Why is this?

In the amount of time I took complaining about ironing on here, I could have had this week's ironing done!  I just thought I would share with you my least favorite chore...what are some of yours? 

I will try to post some updates and pictures of the kids later this week.  Have a great Tuesday everyone.