I usually try not to post any negative thoughts on the blog, but I was laughing tonight while doing laundry (one of my many Sunday chores...and the one I hate the most!) I was sorting little tiny socks...in three sizes....thinking "this stinks". I laughed at my own pun and decided I had to torture others with my thoughts on stinky sock season. I don't like socks because:

1. they add a lot more time to the whole "getting out the door process" and usually accompany shoes that are NOT crocs and which, therefore, require mommy intervention to tie/Velcro/slip on/take off etc.
2. Aiden hates wearing them so, as soon as his shoes come off, the socks are close behind. That means that, if we leave the house more than one time a day, I either have to find the socks he had on (which may be on his changing table or in the middle of the living room floor) or just dirty a second pair (daily sock count now upped from 3 to at least 4).
3. It's so annoying to make BIG socks match up after the wash....try matching up a ton of tiny socks too!
4. I thought I had a clever way to organize every one's stuff...right in the laundry room by the door we use to leave, but Aiden thinks that my neat sock bins are a fun little game. It's called "let's kick them over and spread the socks everywhere". That means that I sat on the floor of the laundry room AGAIN tonight UN-folding perfectly folded socks to read the little "no slip age labels" on the bottoms of them so that I could re-sort everything into its proper place. He hasn't played this game in a while (I took a 2 week break from sorting the socks after re-organizing three times in 2 days)...let's hope they stay put this time.


Here are the little bins on the floor of the laundry room....labeled and in order from smallest to largest :)


This picture is hard to make out, but I also have a "shoe bin" that sits in front of the small sock bins. The boys know to take off their shoes and put them into the shoe bin when we come back into the house. The door on the left of the picture leads into the kitchen.
Here is the trash can in the laundry room....full of little socks that had no mates after I finished unfolding and refolding everything.

I just had to add this picture because it always makes me smile. These are hooks in the laundry room, close to the shoe things, and are for Aiden's and Logan's things (backpacks and coats). Logan's is more useful since he needs to take his backpack to school every day and can actually remove his own jacket, but A needed one too...just like his big brother. They are at kid height and both of the older boys are pretty good about hanging up their coats when we get home. I'll have to find a spot for Bray's hook sometime next year....or the year after :):)