47/365 Bam Bam Bam

I decided when I started this 365 project that I would use the photos and my blog to tell stories of our family. Some of these stories, as you have seen, have been current. Other times, like today, I want to tell the stories of our past, those things that we don't want to forget. So, today's photo does just that.

You may be thinking, a clothes dryer? So what? That machine is a part of every family's past, more than any of us would like to admit. However, how many of us can say that we've seen the dryer from the inside out? Tyler can. When we were living in Oxford, our small laundry room was the walkway to our back porch. Our friends Susan and Greg had come over for a cookout with their son Barrett (these were the pre-Anna days). The boys were barely two and were running around the house playing. The laundry room door and back door were open as we were going in and out to the grill. At some point, we started hearing a "banging" noise. With 2 boys, this wasn't all that unusual. Somehow, though, this was different. Muffled. We followed the noise into the laundry room and realized it was coming from inside the dryer. As we opened it, Tyler popped out laughing. The boys had been playing hide-n-seek, and Tyler had found a great spot. It's just that David latched him in there instead of "finding" him! The strangest thing to me now is trying to remember how he ever fit in there!