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the natural order of things
By heather | August 16, 2007
If you’ve ever been to my parent’s house, you know that it’s immaculate. Not don’t-sit-on-anything immaculate, but everything has a place. In my house I strive for everything to have a place (preferably out of sight), whereas Brett is more fond of tidy piles.
As long as things are lined up in a row, then happy days are here again for him. Each of us is irritating to the other because Brett has a tendency to take things I’ve sorted and re-pile them, while I have a tendency to take the tidy piles and stuff them in drawers and lose things like bills and invitations and gift cards.
When we visited my parent’s house last month, I watched my mom literally ball up and stuff things into drawers, which was really a revelation to me because now I know where I get it from.
Surface=pristine, beneath the surface=turmoil. But it’s ok, because it’s not a failure of me as a mom – it’s inherited!
Alex’s new favorite thing to do is stand next to my dresser and empty it, piece by piece, of every article of clothing in there. Because this keeps him occupied while I finish getting ready in the morning, (or going through outfit changes or shoving things in drawers), I let him do it. Plus it’s so DANG cute.
For a while I was doing really good with re-folding and keeping a neat drawer. But really why push it? This is nature, this is how it’s supposed to be.
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