An "I Told You So" moment brought to you by my Mother...

Thank you, Mom, truely, for teaching me how to properly and efficiently iron dress shirts (die Hemden) when I was younger. For all of the times that I complained and whined, and insisted that I would simply just never buy cotton dress shirts, you persisted in giving me things to iron and assuring that regardless, the skill would be important one day.

I do a lot of ironing in this house. I'm not complaining, I promise! But it appears as though the dryer is used very little here. Clothers are hung to dry in the laundry room and as a result, tend to be a little wrinkled in the end. The ironing board and fancy iron come out (particularly when Mia is in kindergarten and Tim is having his morning nap) and I go to work on pants (die Hosen) and t-shirts (das T-Shirts) and dress shirts (die Hemden)! Oh the dress shirts! So many to do, and yet, I find myself getting faster at them. Hopefully my German will come along just as quickly. Hopefully...

And yes, I do own cotton dress shirts - and dresses and skirts and pants - so I do do a lot of ironing of my own (in Canada), despite what I may have insisted. I love you, Mom.