Living the College Life

So, we have been living in Salt Lake now for almost 2 months and have been enjoying the benefits (and challenges) of on campus student housing. There have been b-b-q's,free outdoor movies, and lots of people in our same situation with kids. Starting next week I plan on starting a Yogalates class just outside our apartment as well as a Total Body Fitness class. I am getting excited to drop the last 10 baby pounds I have on me and get back in shape!
Not to complain, cuz I really know how blessed we are to be living in this country and to have the opportunity to go to school and live in such favorable circumstances, but.. I have to explain one of the simple things other mothers most likely can relate to and appreciate. See one of the frustrating things about living in our humble cynderblock apartment is the fact that to dry our clothes I have wait till my sweet little girl decides to take a nap, then I usually have 45 minutes to rush around and do stuff. So I put a load of laundry in the washing machine we have in our apartment. 30 minutes later I am dragging the basket full of wet clothes down our 3 flights of stairs to the laundry room in the next stairwell over. Once I get there I better have remembered my dollar worth of quarters, the 2 dryer sheets and the key to get in to the laundry room. If not, I have to run back up to my apartment and back down. If the dryers are in use, I cross my fingers and hope I can get a chance to put my wet clothes in the dryer when Jeff gets home from work or be lucky enough to get another cat nap out of Mae and do it then. If not, I may end up having to wash the clothes again because they stink. IF I am fortunate enough to get my clothes in, then after Mae wakes up and we get a chance to make it back down the stairs (like this last week), Mae gets a ride on the dry clothes in the laundry basket! I have posted a few pictures of the adorable babe eating our mail I got out of the mail box before getting our clean clothes.