More On Laundry...
If you read yesterday's post, you know that laundry's been heavy on my heart (and heavy on my back...hauling all those clothes and linens up two flights of stairs from the basement to our bedrooms is no easy task).
When it comes to clean-clothes handling, I am in the habit of simultaneously folding and sorting by room such that a particular basket heads either to our boudoir or to the hallway between the kids' rooms. It's all about efficiency. I even go so far as to pile our daughter's clothes neatly on one side of the basket and our son's on the other so that the basket can be placed in front of the linen closet between both of their doors for maximum ease in putting things away. (Yes, it's obsessive, but it works for me.)
I had a basket positioned as such the other afternoon and was returning shirts, pants, and PJs to our two-year-old's dresser. Then I noticed that she was removing things from the basket and heading into her brother's room with them.
Curious, I followed her. Was she undoing my hard work and tossing things carelessly to the floor?
No, she was putting them away. And putting them away correctly.
"Pajammies!" she said, and bent to put her brother's footy PJs into the bottom bin of his makeshift dresser--right where they belonged.
She made another trip to the basket for a pile of tiny tighty whities. "Underwear!" she said, again placing them correctly.
She proceeded with pants and socks until the basket was empty and everything had found its appropriate home. Remarkable.
This MUST be an X-linked trait.
When it comes to clean-clothes handling, I am in the habit of simultaneously folding and sorting by room such that a particular basket heads either to our boudoir or to the hallway between the kids' rooms. It's all about efficiency. I even go so far as to pile our daughter's clothes neatly on one side of the basket and our son's on the other so that the basket can be placed in front of the linen closet between both of their doors for maximum ease in putting things away. (Yes, it's obsessive, but it works for me.)
I had a basket positioned as such the other afternoon and was returning shirts, pants, and PJs to our two-year-old's dresser. Then I noticed that she was removing things from the basket and heading into her brother's room with them.
Curious, I followed her. Was she undoing my hard work and tossing things carelessly to the floor?
No, she was putting them away. And putting them away correctly.
"Pajammies!" she said, and bent to put her brother's footy PJs into the bottom bin of his makeshift dresser--right where they belonged.
She made another trip to the basket for a pile of tiny tighty whities. "Underwear!" she said, again placing them correctly.
She proceeded with pants and socks until the basket was empty and everything had found its appropriate home. Remarkable.
This MUST be an X-linked trait.
posted by Lisa Strandberg at 3:49 PM
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