Laundry Tales

Yeah Tanya, I remember that episode with the laundry well. That was back in my pre-blogging days, so I'll give everyone a recap of that little incident. Back when Angel #1 was in first grade, our clothes line was in the front of our house. It was up by the barn and you really couldn't see it unless you actually drove into our driveway - which the school bus did. Angel was embarrassed and asked that I don't hang up our clothes there when the bus was coming through. Of course, ever sensitive to the needs of our children, I discontinued using the clothes line. Uh, yeah, you don't know how things at Daydreamer central run if you believe that. Hubby and his friend went to Goodwill and bought the biggest pair of underwear they could find and hung it on the line just in time for the bus to show up. Fun was had by all.

There was another time when Angel #1 didn't do something he was asked to do - I think it was put his clean laundry away or something like that. This went on for a number of days. This time, the Angel was no helpless 1st grader, but a kid who had chores and was expected to do them or experience the consequences. We were in a different house at that time so I had to set up a clothesline in the front yard since ours was in the back, out of view of the bus. I then took all the clothes that he was supposed to have dealt with, including a bunch of his underwear, and hung them on the front line in plain view of the bus for when he got home from school. Boy, was he ticked, but I didn't have a problem with him putting his clean clothes away after that. Sometimes you have to make the punishment fit the crime, ya know? Now, if I could just figure out how to get him to put the toilet seat back down....