I was shopping on Zulily today, something I seem to do almost every day, and I came across several wall stencils for a laundry room and I realized they are about the truest quotes I've ever read. They're versions of something I've said to myself many times over the years and close to the advice I try to give parents when they lament about the piles of laundry that come with each new child. Mine was always, "When the laundry is gone; it means they're gone."