The Laundry!
I remember feeling so overwhelmed with all the laundry as a new parent. The baby goes through multiple outfits a day! Ha, you go through multiple outfits a day! I tried many different hacks to help with the mountain of laundry. My mindset stayed the same.
My mother, bless that woman, made mothering look easy! I don’t remember her complaining about laundry or housework or dishes, but that is a whole other topic for a different day.
What I do remember is doing things together as a family. That is something that I wanted to pass down to our children, an attitude of teamwork.
I wanted to share with you how we do laundry in the season of life we are currently in. Three littles under 6. They are at the stage they want to wear multiple outfits during the day. HA! Not in my house. LOL!
On the right, you will see my tribe. Each one of the children has a tote of clothes, and one tote is for all the kid’s PJs, which comes out to 4 toes total. Our children share a room for sleeping so it makes it very easy to put the totes under the bunk bed and toddler bed. We do not have any dressers in their room because they are climbers.
Here is the reason why I ditched the dresser. I found myself getting angrier when the children took all of their clothes out of the dresser drawers that I knew something had to change. I let them pick out what clothes they liked wearing the most and donated the rest. My big point with the tote is so that they don’t have an overwhelming amount of clothes, options to choose from. When we started out with the totes when it was laundry day after washing and drying everything I would bring the clean laundry unfolded into their room. Separate it out and let them make it fit in their tote. UNFOLDED! I was not going to fold their laundry just so that they could unfold it and toss it all in the tote. We have been doing this for a year now. Our oldest is 6 and he folds his pile of clothes and puts it in his tote. Just the other day I saw our oldest teaching/showing, our middle child how to fold the right way. Y’all I didn’t “make” him fold his laundry. HE watched me fold my clothes and my husband’s clothes but we did not show him how to do it.
I truly believe this Idea was holy spirit inspired! If we invite Him into EVERY area of our life, yes friends even the laundry room. HE will show up and inspire us to change our outlook and raise our children into the men and women He is calling them to become!
It’s my prayer that inspires you today.
No comparison, just inspiration!
What a great idea! Wish I would have thought of this when my kids were little
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