Dirty Laundry

Dirty clothes go in the hamper and stay there until laundry day.

I truly believe this, although there were times when I was single where I would sometimes decide that an item of clothing wasn't as dirty as previously believed. So, I would remove the item, after smelling it to be sure, and put it on, along with a touch of perfume.

Now that I am a mother, I strive to keep my daughters clean as well as their clothes. While I'm no fan of laundry, I do it constantly. Between cloth diapers and clothes sizes 9 months to 2T, I have a lot of laundry to do every week. Every day I am washing something. I usually wash the clothes in the girls' hamper at least twice a week. Diapers are washed every other day. Getting my DH's clothes and my clothes washed happens once a week somewhere between the rest of it.

Lately, my toddler, Ginny, has taken an interest in clothes. Not any clothes, but the clothes that are in her hamper. Her dirty laundry.

I do not understand this sudden interest. Perhaps the interest came about because we have hidden all her shoes. I just know that I will go in her room and find her clothes, that were once in the hamper, strewn

Ginny on her bed (yes, that is the position she gets in to sleep)
with the dirty laundry in the corner.

across the room. After naps when I head to get her and change her diaper, I will find her in a pile of her dirty clothes, the hamper empty, or close to it.  This morning, I even found Ginny putting on a pair of pants. Never mind the fact that they were her sister's pants that are much too small for her, being only 6-9 months, or that she was putting them on upside down, with the hem of the pant leg going on first. Ginny seemed so proud that she had accomplished that much.

I'm not sure how I can stop her from getting in her hamper. I guess I will just have to deal with it, for now.