**This giveaway is now closed**
I have discovered my theme song. I know because it has the word, “laundry” in the title.
You think I’m kidding? I am so not. I have written at least 20 posts featuring my ongoing, usually losing battle with our family’s laundry bulge.
How is it possible that laundry plays such a massive role in the life of a mom?!
It has made me weigh my priorities, wash my thoughts, see myself through someone else’s eyes and get over my picture perfect perceptions of motherhood.
So, when I discovered Point of Grace’s new single, “Love and Laundry,” it was like coming home. I felt like someone had literally set my life to music.
I’m betting you will feel the same way too. Which is why I would be sharing this with you whether or not it was part of a giveaway. Because girlfriends, this song is too good to be missed.
I mean tell me these words don’t sum up your day:
Here I go again it’s another messy morning
Walk around the clothes that are covering the floor
Take my kiss and my coffee to go
Then put on my mascara while I’m driving down the road.
That. Is. My. Life.
Especially, since in my world the definition of grid lock is basically the ability to apply a full face of makeup at 1 mile an hour.
Thought that I could do it all
Turns out I was crazy
Man I need an i-phone
And a cleaning lady
We haven’t had a date night in what seems like forever
It might take a miracle to get myself together
I keep praying I can get everything done
And still have time for love and a load of laundry.
Oh bliss, glee, delight, and joy. Yes, sirree-bob that is me to a T! This song makes my insides do the happy dance because it’s so profoundly comforting to know that I am not alone in my laundry battles.
So, lovely beautiful ladies who hang out here with me, please put your feet up on the messy coffee table, crank up the volume and listen to your very own theme song. Listen, look, laugh and feel affirmed.
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And because I think mothers are the ultimate unsung heroes, because I wish I could come over and do your laundry for you or take you out on a girl’s night, I am so, so thrilled to at least be able to offer 5 of you – yup FIVE – copies of the new album from Point of Grace that features, “Love and Laundry.”
Oh, and there’s a cook book too. Did I mention the cook book?
{Insert Happy Dance Here!}
Sigh. I love when I have an excuse to thank you guys for sharing with me the humor, joy, and holiness that is so often sunk under a pile of dirty laundry.
Just leave a comment telling me your favorite or most relate-able part of the video and you are entered to win a copy of the album and the cook book. If you want, you can follow me on twitter for an extra entry.
Contest open until midnight EST on Wednesday 3/24 when we’ll let random integer generator pick FIVE WINNERS.
Now isn’t this a great way to start a week?
PS: Point of Grace sent me a copy of the CD and the Cook Book. I can’t wait to send five of you the same!
hehe – the song makes me laugh! :) The running through the airport scene is completely relate-able (although, she needed to be pushing a stroller with a crying baby and have about 3 more bags on her shoulder and a full bladder and be hearing her name paged overhead)!
Oh! Oh! Oh! Count me in! I love these grace girls, yes ma’am!
My most relatable part of the video was when one of the girls (Denise I think?) was helping her son with homework. I loved her exasperated expression because I feel her pain! 4th grade math is especially kicking my hiney!!
Thanks for this giveaway, Lisa-Jo! So fun!
While I’m not a mumma yet…. keeping up with a household and the gazillion jobs to be done each week keeps me on my toes. Why is it that the laundry seems to breed when no one’s looking?!? Love Point of Grace!! Happy to see that they have trouble keeping their lives in a sense of order too! Blessings on you Lisa-Jo.
Oh, I can so relate to so much of that video! You know what sticks out to me most, though? Sadly — it’s the part where she’s doing the fake pull-ups. :) Man — what a great video.
I think the main line of the song “praying I still have time for love and a load of laundry” speaks to me. I always fall behind on laundry, and when I’m trying to catch up, I find it very very VERY difficult to be a loving wife and mother and still wash, dry, fold, and put away everyone’s laundry. I want to do the laundry in a bad mood, and then be loving when I’m done with it all.
I love that song! Especially the line about not having time to clean the tub ;) But my most favorite part of it? It got Fynn dancing in my kitchen this morning!
yes laundry is the pain of my life – just when i feel I am getting the pile down – (i have a secret challenge with myself to one day get the laundry basket empty) my husband or daughter will put a huge pile of clothes in it and i was only half way through my challenge and make it into a huge mountain again!!!!
lovely song…. couldn’t watch it all – limited bandwith here in SA.
little girls with the microphones soo cute
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What a cute song! I’d sure like to relax laying in a bubble bath but then I’d have to clean the tub and really whose got time for that? That’s so me. Matter of fact, my husband, if he wants to speak my love language (grin) always cleans out the tub for me. What a sweetheart.
Are you kidding? Pick out one part I can relate to….how bout the entire song! I love it. It is the first time that I have heard it and I think it may just be my theme song too!!!! Can’t wait to play it for my hubby. Thanks so much for sharing. I would love to win the CD and cookbook. I can cook while listening to my new themesong! Have an awesome day!
Love, love, love POG!!! Favorite part…the CHOCOLATE CAKE!!! What??? I LOVE sweets!! :-)
Laundry.. what a concept. Is that what you do to prevent your manager from saying: ´what´s that on your skirt?´ And then you have to say: ´don´t know, thought it was clean from the closet, guess not! Looks like toothpaste!´ Maybe I should take it off and throw it on the huge pile of clothes in my bedroom before my dinner guests get here! Thanks for the reminder!
For. Real. I’m sooo the one carry the hugest load my wee-little arms can wrap around, while I waddle to the washer with it. Then like Hansel & Gretel, I go back and pick up the trail of items left behind. Question is, why do I wait ’til the loads are humongus like a hippotamus?
Well… I am always behind on laundry. One of my most humiliating moments occurred because I was behind on laundry. So you know I relate.
But for the video… waiting for the school bus. And the eternal waving. Because that is my life now that the Tongginator is in kindergarten. *sob*
Oh, girl, they had me at hello from the start losing the laundry battle just trying to get it down the stairs!! Soooo me.
But what I loved, l-0-v-e-d about this video was the camaraderie of sister friends from start to finish.
Ok, headed to the laundry room! …And you just gave me a post idea! ;) Thx, Lisa-Jo!
My favorite part is right at the beginning when Denise is heading down the stairs with a load of laundry in her arms randomly dropping socks, underwear, etc. I think that laundry (dirty or clean) is one of the most difficult things in the world to carry without dropping!! =) Love this song and love POG!!
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Great song. The line about looking forward all day to finally sitting down together with the lights down low “and we both fall asleep.” ha ha! And the push ups. Hilarious.
Laundry is never done at my house. My 5 yr old knows how to sort and put it in the washer, I transfer it to the dryer but somehow it never gets folded and put away. What’s up with that?!
Loved it. The video is great and looks like it was a blast to make (I mean, dancing across the stage…who gets to do that?).
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Can I relate? FOR SURE!!! lol
My favorite part is the beginning when the two girls are singing. My girls are always putting on shows and singing for me and my husband. It was something they would totally do.
As I type this my husband just asked what I wanted him to do with the laundry in the dryer so he could put his laundry in there..lol.
Oh the first scene with the laundry is all me. The rest is pretty east to relate to too. This is great. Timed just right for me… last night I was in tears just feeling overwhelmed by it all. Today is a new day and I’m just doing what I can. Time to fold the laundry!
Oh I LOVE it!! This song is so perfect. So relate-able.
I loved Point of Grace in my teens but haven’t heard any of their recent stuff – this is great!!
When her son was rubbing her shoulders it made me laugh out loud – my boys are only 3 and 20 months but I have trained them to give back and head rubs and they are SO good at it!! :) Definitely a bright spot in my day.
I spend most of my days at home in pajamas, I mean work-out clothes, so there’s not a lot in the video I relate to- but I certainly relate to the song! Especially “haven’t had a date night” in forever!
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Twitter follower who found out about “Love & Laundry” thanks to your update!
Two parts that struck me the most. First is the very opening scene with the two little girls singing the song on the porch. Oh, I hope that they grow up to find more avenues for combining their work & life choices than what we currently have available, i.e., that they’re not going to be sidelined, lose out on a promotion, or have their paychecks reduced simply because they choose to become mamas.
The other is the line from the song about lights being down low, only to have the parents both fall asleep instead of having time together. That happens way too often! :)
That’s the theme song for my life, for sure! My two faves in the video?
Near the beginning, when she was wrestling with the trash can. My facebook status one time recently was “I fought the diaper pail and the diaper pail won”. Remembering that day makes me shudder.
I also liked how 5 push ups – and the chin ups while standing on the chair – counted as “exercise” for the day. Most days, I’m lucky if I can get in 5 push ups!
Thanks for sharing this video/song/album/cookbook!
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Struggling to get the garabage bag out of the can!!
I would love to win the CD! I am a long, long time POG fan. My favorite part of the video is the chocolate cake on the teeth.
I often am perplexed at HOW 3 people, one of whom is tiny, make so much laundy. HOW??
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Ha! The homework! My son’s math homework makes my brain hurt sometimes. Pretty soon he’ll be past what I can remember!
And, of course, I already follow you on Twitter.
Seriously, what a video! I was identifying with it from the first moment, struggling down the stairs with the laundry. Or wrestling with the trash… But my favorite was the fake pull-ups. Oh, if I could manage to do pull-ups. It’s all I can do to get out there with a jogger. (The laundry? That’s a lost cause.)
Thanks for such a fun giveaway, Lisa-Jo!
I loved how it was so real. There was no candy coat about it. I’ll say it over and over again: I love it real, raw, and fresh.
I follow you on Twitter! :)
Way cool! Who doesn’t relate, right? From the lack of personal time, TO DATE NIGHT. That alone is real enough to me. Add to that laundry?!! Ughh. No, there aren’t enough hours.
Aside from the above, I so love the sweet intro with the girls. I mean I never daydream or anything. :)
Can I say “the whole thing?” Because I mean it!! :)
What a fun song and a great giveaway!
I love how they show their real life in the video, so fun! I love their harmonies too, great talent.
The parts I related to the most started right at the beginning. My girls love to “perform” and I’m right there cheering them on, no matter what it sounds like. When the dogs were in the way while she was walking downstairs with the clothes, my dogs almost always seem to be underfoot. I could also see myself when she put her face in her hands while she’s trying to help with the homework. Basically, living the full-time mommy life– I’m there!
ahhhh i love this video. made me smile. growing up one of 6, and being one of the older ones, i remember tackling the laundry. Oh, the laundry!! my older sister and i were in charge and we’d tot it all down the steps to the basement to do a load, fold the clean wash, and drag it all back upstairs to put away. those first few moments were my favorite and most relatable! :)
I love this song! Laundry overwhelms me on a daily basis. UGH! Struggling to take the trash out of the can because it was so full is me too = ]
the part with the fake pushups made me laugh really hard – totally fooled me!
I guess I relate most to the laundry…
I LOVE the part where she is wrestling the trash bag out of the trash can. My trash does that, too, and I HATE it! I’m a new mommy (4 weeks!), and the fact that I have to go back to work tomorrow has been difficult for me. This song really made my day. =)
I can totally relate with having to sign all those autographs :)
Just kidding – putting mascara on in the car! THAT is totally me!
Love this song – thanks for the giveaway!
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