What IS that smell?

Have you ever walked in to your house after a day, two days, weekend away and hit a wall of stank? Whoa lord, did we hit one this Sunday. After a good 48 hours away we came back late in the day to an unidentified stench. My first thought was trash. Nope. My second, the dishwasher. Wrong. Diaper pail? Nada. Finally I went upstairs to the laundry room. I opened the door and almost dry heaved. The washer could have been a skunk. I had read front load washers can acquire a mildewy smell, but this was beyond. I immediately ran the sanitize cycle with hydrogen peroxide. This helped (and actually cured the mildew smell last time), but did not quite return the "fresh" indoor air smell we're all used to. So now I am using powder detergent (as recommended by many an internet expert) and running regular washes. If anyone has further suggestions please let me know! 'Till then, an air freshener and a prayer is all I got.

You know what sucks?

Being kicked when you're down. Does one really need to be made to feel worse about a situation that already makes them feel bad?

That someone, as you may have guessed, is me. And the "person" making me feel badly is daycare. We have had a very hard time with WA in daycare and with the help of his new teacher it appears (knock wood) that he is making strides. Throughout the process, however, the director has made me feel like a failing parent. Not exactly what I needed. Hey lady, I KNOW my son is struggling. He's my son! I just didn't appreciate the way they handled the situation on many levels. But, I was willing to take it in order to maintain some consistency for WA and I like his current teacher. But still, many times I felt like saying "Bite me Ms. T" (T is the school director).

Now, I'm just fumming. Today they informed me that IA is an additional problem. She just got over a 1-2 month biting spree (during which they threatened to withdraw her). Her behavior was completely appropriate developmentally, in my opinion. Sucks to go through, for sure..both as the parent of the biter and the parents of those bitten. But shouldn't they be able to handle this without making it a situation so dire as to cause withdrawal? Again, I sucked it up knowing IA would eventually stop (that is if she didn't get kicked out first!). But now they are monitoring her because she "is overly active, gets in to things alot and doesn't listen". Uh, isn't that the defintion of the terrible twos??? I understand the frustration of having a kid that acts up, but I resent being made to feel like a bad parent. And I'm almost to the point of leaving that school behind. You're childcare providers, act like it.