Laundry Day

Who doesn't love to fold? Yuck! I suppose it is satisfying to put everything in neat piles and then tucked away neat in drawers, but the truth is that almost never happens. Laundry, laundry everywhere. We barely get the laundry done before people are pulling things right out of the dryer to be worn immediately. But there is an effort to keep things neat and orderly. In college, both my husband and I made an effort to take a couple of uninterrupted hours to clean and fold clothes so that we could actually learn at college rather than doing laundry at 12 AM as most co-ed's. However, today, we cannot afford to take an uninterrupted morning to do only laundry.

But these are the days of organized chaos. If we have a couple of day’s change of clothes in the drawers, we are looking good. The in-laws have just learned that there will always be a pile of unfolded clothes that we try to chip at during the day. The little one has even learned to help bring mommy and daddy clothes off, "the mountain" as we call it, so that we can achieve the joy of folded clothes.

My grandmother used to spend her life doing laundry. I always remember her folding, ironing, washing clothes. She loved the idea of neat and orderly clothes. It does make a person feel better, but at the time, she stayed up to 2 AM starching shirts (that is so never going to happen). I suppose we will just have to live with a little chaos and enjoy the process.