Seasonal Transition

If you've been around here very long, you know the seasonal closet transition in this house will make me whine like nothing else.  It takes weeks, it leads to tons of laundry, I hate it. I grumble, I complain, I am unkind to my children, and I am completely ungrateful for the clothes my children have. I am a wretch!!

This year, I decided to take a different approach. I still whined (some) - but I did it in ONE DAY.  I wasn't unkind to the kids. I enlisted their help in little ways -- putting someone in charge of all the hangers, someone else in charge of the boxes for others, someone else as the messenger to Daddy when we needed another box. Oh my gracious, the clothes!!! Annie has hit the size where Elizabeth & Nin collided (they both hit size six at the same time). She had a summer closet full. She has a winter closet full...though not quite as full as the summer closet was -- it was obscene, let me tell you.  One thing that helped the winter closet not be as full, she nixed a lot of the things her sisters wore.  Not that she isn't thankful, or the clothes weren't cute -- but she doesn't like turtlenecks (never bothered her sisters) and she isn't wild about sweatshirts or anything "fuzzy".  We have lots of boxes to bless others, though - whether on to our Baby Cousins or taking to Share & Swap for church.  Aaaaaand, we just found another box in the garage of stuff for Annie. So, while I mix up Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins - Bits is going to finish trying on clothes for fall & winter.

I'll tell you about the muffins later, and will share the recipe I use then, too.

And PS, it helped that yesterday was cold and rainy -- so everyone had to stay inside!