She folded MY clothes
Ok, I know this is probably ridiculous to most but something quite amazing happened in my life a few days ago that I just had to share.
SHE folded MY clothes.
SHE! The 7-yr-old folded *my* clothes! Out of the dryer. Fresh. Dried. FOLDED. And they were MINE!
After 4 1/2 years of washing, drying and folding HER clothes, my 7-yr-old folded MY clothes! AMAZING! What a moment! I couldn’t believe it. It was morning time and I had just gotten out of the shower. I casually mentioned to my 7-yr-old that I had forgotten to grab a pair of socks. She then gleefully piped up, “Do you want MEEE to get you a pair?!!?” I sort of crumpled my brow thinking, “SHE is going to get ME a pair of socks? I don’t get it. I get HER socks every morning when she forgets to grab a pair (which is most mornings).” And then she said it, “I’ll get you a pair because I know where they are because *I* folded them for you yesterday!” And she happily skipped off to to our laundry area get them… While I tried my best NOT to pass out. The day had come.
THE day. The day I just presumed would never come. The day that SHE would fold MY clothes.
Amazing.
Parenting is indeed full of joyful surprises.
