I need a quick little pity party before I continue with my day. *sniff* I'm finally donating all the kids' baby clothes. *sniff* It started as an inventory of what the kids have to wear for spring and summer and escalated from there (a common problem of mine, I go to find a pillowcase and end up reorganizing the whole linen closet).
Now it wasn't quite the monumental task you might assume having 5 children within 5 years (obviously, since I did it all this morning). I've been pretty good about selling/donating/storing the kids' clothes after every season. But I've been a bit messy since Kelly's birth and I still had some odd baby clothes of Kyle's. And then all the receiving blankets and tiny socks and stuff like that from all 5. But no more! I now have one medium sized box of a couple baby outfits from each child (okay, really like 3 or 4 each) to keep forever, one box of hand-me-down twin's clothes for Kelly, one box of Zach's old stuff for Kyle, and then two boxes and one garbage bag full of clothes to donate. Oh and one smaller box to throw away, stuff that is too stained or torn (and I wonder why I saved them in the first place).
*sniff, sniff* Back to the pity party. I'm not terribly sentimental either but it's hard letting go of Kelly and Kyle's stuff. I don't remember if I felt this way when I donated Zach and the twin's baby clothes. Probably with them, I knew they weren't the lasts. But now I'll never need another size 3-6 month pink sleeper with cute bunnies. *sniff* It's not that I want another baby either because I really don't, I just have this irrational urge to keep 6 pink baby girl sleepers and 4 or 5 baby boy outfits. And all the receiving blankets. It must be something wired weird in my mommy brain.
But I know I have to let go. All the stuff is boxed and bagged, it won't make it back into the closet. I'm consoling myself with the stuff I am saving, for example: Zach's outfit he wore at his baptism, Em and Ally's first Easter dresses sewn by their great grandmother, Kyle's cute blue sleeper, and Kelly's blue jean jumper and soft pink onesie. It'll have to do. *sigh*
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