Laundry room signs

Do you do laundry all the time?  Oh yes, me too!  Ha.  I feel like it's a never ending cycle.  This is one of my favorite memes that I can totally relate to.

Because I feel like even before I'm done with it all and it's put away ---- it starts all over again.  That and the dishes.  I need to think of a way to make these tasks fun and I'd be a millionaire.

But in the meantime, a while back, I thought it would be fun to spruce up our little laundry room.  It's not the biggest and most awesome space, but it beats having to go to the basement like our old house!  There is lots of space and storage to store things and it suits us just fine!

However, I contemplated the need to decorate it.  Because WHO cares.  Well, after doing the never ending loads of laundry that comes with a family of 5, I decided it was time to get some cute AND useful decor.

I purchased the Laundry room sign in the middle and the rug on the floor (in the last photo) at At Home like a year ago...but never knew how to hang them up and tie it all together.   That's when I found the blue printable that has all the laundry signs (which I SOOOO need #notalaundryexpert) and thought it would go perfect.  I needed something to hang on the other side and that's when I went for function.

I ALWAYS feel like I get behind on the sheets, towels, kids towels, kitchen towels, etc.   Like there are so many things to wash now that I needed some sort of system to track when I did it last.  Mainly so I can know just how long I've let them go unwashed and then solidify the fact that I'm gross.  Ok, not really - ha.  #butkindof  No - this little sign that I made in PowerPoint, just goes through the main things that need to be washed in our house and let's me use a dry erase marker to note what date they were last washed.  Nothing fancy (just like my menu board), but it WORKS!  I love that I'm not trying to remember - was it last week, two weeks ago, or heaven forbid a month (or two) ago.   I promise that doesn't happen often...but sometimes because, you know, that's life and a little grime never hurt anyone, right?  (just tell me that)

Here's a close up of the fun.

I love the way the signs and rug tie it together.  This is one of the few rooms left in our house (our bedroom and bathroom and dining room as well) that are this dark brown color - so I'm sure we'll get around to painting it soon. But for now, I'm happy with the little pops of color to make myself feel like I'm a super laundry mom.

Do you have an awesome laundry room?  I'll be forever jealous of Shay's (see it here), but that's not real life either --- so I'm happy with mine!!!

Confession: my baby doesn't wear pajamas

Hi.  And ummmm....I'm sorry for my unintended blog absence.  I'm attributing the whole thing to the fact that when I upgraded my iPhone, the blogger app that I used to write random posts on my phone when I had time doesn't work.  What the heck?!!!  Does anyone that uses blogger know of any apps that still work?  They said when I googled it that they stopped updating the official blogger one, hence why it doesn't work.  And I get stressed out switching this whole thing to wordpress.

Anyways, I was cleaning out this cute babe's drawers of hi 0-3 and 3 month clothes and replacing with the 6 - 9 month clothes from his brother.  And btw - it's so fun having skipped a gender with a kid because it makes it SO FUN to open up these bins and see all these cute clothes that I used to dress Charlie in.  Oh and...I did a WHOLE lot of shopping for 6 month clothes.  And not so much 9 month.  Weird.

Ok onto the point.  What I realized when I was putting away all his clothes (besides crying because seriously - how is he growing so fast!?!?) was that I literally didn't use all of the cute hand me down pajamas.  He has worn only 2 pajamas in his almost 4 months of life.  And both were gifts from people to him - not hand me downs. 

Why and how is this??

He doesn't wear pajamas to bed.

Because I'm a lazy mom.

Or am I just a smart mom?

Who knows - but let me let you in on my secret.

All we have are the little half shirt things from the hospital (FREE - especially after you have been hoarding them with all 3 kids!) and like 3 of the half shirt things that are from Carter's.  He wears one of those every night and a swaddle.  He was OK with the swaddler things (we have like 100 of them and conveniently both my older children hated them), but then I discovered this and BONUS.  I never have to unswaddle him and make that loud and obnoxious RRRRRIIIIIIPPPPPP sound of velcro in the middle of the night.

You know when the baby is like half awake and half asleep and you have to change their diaper (because #stinkypoop) and the minute you rip their eyes pop wide open and they want to party?

Oh yeah, I kind of remember that from Maddie but not from Mikey - because I literally refuse to use the swaddle + pajamas.  Especially snap ones at night.  No thank you.  I'm a zipper mom. But those damn zippers are at the top of the PJs and the swaddle comes up from the bottom.  Completely doesn't make sense to me.  Let's get some engineer mamas designing these things!

So here is what my sweet boy still wears every night.

Free hospital shirt.

Swaddle (we are currently going both arms out too!)

That's it.  And here is the Carter's ones we have that we got from a baby shower with Charlie.

You guys.  Am I the only person that does this?  While I LOVE baby's in pajamas just like the rest of us...the fact that my kids are all July/summer babies doesn't help because I always feel like the 100 degree temps make it too hot for PJs when they are little and then by that point, they are too big for the cute 0-3 month ones.

This is not rocket science, I swear.  I'm really just lazy.  But Jimmy thinks I'm crazy to keep doing this and is like whining that Mikey is never in pajamas at night.  I'm all like - then you get up with him when he wakes up!  HA.  (Luckily that hasn't been too often, but I think we are on the brink of a 4 month sleep regression, so I'm bracing myself!).

But just for fun - here's a picture of him from each of his pajama wears.  They are so so so cute!   Just not at 2AM.  So we wear during the day instead.

Is there anything "weird" that you do as a mom?  Out of the norm?  Please please share!