> this is mostly to help my wife who has a brain injury

Sorry to hear that. Hope things get better. Don't know if your wife's case fits, but the brain has a lot of plasticity; fingers-crossed.

> my washer and dryer love to lie to me and add 20 minutes to the cycle

We're going to have to assign a business analyst here to capture the full slate of requirements before we start development, i.e., armchair suggestions :-) I don't think agile is working very well here