What a Pile of … Laundry – The Military Family

Motherhood. – Childhood. – Sometimes they just don’t fit hand in hand.
I did laundry on Monday – a basket full for each boy.

Last night (two days later) I am tucking my darlings into bed (E (9) and C (6) share a room) when I notice their dirty laundry basket, literally overflowing. Two days of laundry? I think not. Is there clean laundry in there? You can count on it!

Sometimes I have a very hard time coming up with appropriate consequences for things my boys do that they should know better. However, last night when I said “You have Friday off of school for a Teachers-Inservice Day and you two will be doing laundry.” I wasn’t fooling. They will wash, sort, fold and then put away. Perhaps, (pretty please!) they will think twice about wearing pajamas only once before throwing them in their laundry basket; picking up a pair of shorts that fell out of their drawer (never warn) and thrown in the dirty laundry; thinking, “Eh, I don’t want to put the clean laundry away so I’ll just shuffle it over to the dirty laundry pile.” Perhaps…