merry maid

i dont know what it is about laundry that calls to my daughter, but her favorite day of the week is Wednesday - cause she knows that's when the clothes come out.
since she wants to be so involved in the process, i decided she may as well help out. cause really what is the point in having kids if they can't pull their own weight with chores. one day she'll thank me... when she's married and all of her friends are talking about how they never learned to cook or clean... i'm waiting for the letter she's bound to send me...

she is getting very good at helping me sort, and she loves to transfer the clothes from the basket into the washing machines. that is, sadly, where her helpfulness ends. once the clothes are clean she sees no point in making more work for herself by having everything folded. i have learned that unless i want to fold everything multiple times, the folding happens after bed time.

actually she has just started to pull all her clothes from her dresser and add them to the dirty clothes sorting piles. trip after trip, arm-full after arm-full... by the size of her grin, I think, she really thinks she's doing me a favor!