Yippee!

The problem with having two little girls is that just as soon as you've finished washing one load of little pink things, you have another load of little pink things waiting to go.

Yes, the dryer is fixed. I am so happy!

The husband tried to fix it himself, but gave up after nearly two hours of bewilderment and frustration. He tried to follow the instructions in the repair manual, but nothing was looking the way it was supposed to. We have a Kenmore dryer; Sears claimed the manual that they sold us had all the information we needed for that particular model. Let me just point out that the husband bought the dryer before we met; I have never liked Sears because, in my opinion and in my experience, this sort of thing is typical of their customer service. As in, what customer service?

We finally called a repairman. He took care of the whole thing in no time at all. He was also kind enough to show the husband just where the repair manual was wrong and how to do this ourselves the next time. Cost? More than I like to think about, but at least we didn't have to pay the markup for the heating element, since we'd already bought that.

I never would have thought that I'd be so happy to be doing laundry! The piles of clothing littering my hallway are slowly melting away, while closets and dressers are filling up again.

Hip hip hooray!