Make My Life Easier Thursday: Ultra Square Laundry Basket
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This is one product that I could never have anticipated wanting or needing. However, my house has narrow stairways and I have to walk down two flights to do the laundry. We originally bought the regular rectangular laundry baskets, but I was bumping into the walls, knocking picture frames to the ground, and having a difficult time going down the stairs with a heavy basket that I couldn’t hold perpendicular to my body. In the grand scheme of things, this is such a small complaint in life, but as the laundry-doer in the household, this square option has truly made my life easier! It’s available at Target for $8.99, both online and in-store. Ultra Square Laundry Basket
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Ooh, I have something very similar but it’s taller, and has wheels and a handle. It’s fantastic. Small enough to tuck away in a closet but makes doing laundry so easy. We use it as a sort of hamper, too. Our laundry is in the basement of our building so that’s part of the reason we got it but it seems like it would be useful in a house too.
The curved laundry baskets that you can balance of your hip are where it’s at.
So, I’m being induced with #2 this weekend. I’ll get the prostaglandin gel and then be sent home to labour for a while, and then be admitted to hospital for pitocin. I’m wondering what people did with their toddlers when having baby #2? We have family who would happily have him to stay with them, but I’m reticent to send my toddler away for 3-4 days (I’ll be in hospital for 24-48 hours after the birth) and then resurface with a new baby. I think I’d like my family to look after him in our home for the duration so that he’s in his familiar surroundings (and then my husband will bring toddler to the hospital to meet and bring home the new baby), but that will mean he’ll see some of my early labouring. Is that fine? Is that going to freak him out?
I may be overthinking this, but I just want to do right by my sweet toddler, ya know?
IMO the pop-up laundry baskets are so much better — lighter, collapsible, kids love to play in them. Yes, they maybe only last a year or two, but we keep 3 in solid rotation and they are cheap. Also helps when you sort hampers in multiple rooms into colors/darks/whites.
I use solid laundry bins more as shelf-storage organizers for off-season kids things or sale buying for stuff they may grow into (jackets, leggings, dresses).
How much do you worry about sodium in kids foods? I feel like it’s pretty easy to buy baby/toddler foods with no sugar added, but a lot of things my 10 month old loves are pretty high in sodium (frozen turkey/chicken meatballs especially). We also eat out a lot and I know restaurant food is generally high in sodium. Is this something you don’t worry too much about as long as it’s in moderation? Or does anyone have strategies for eating lower sodium that aren’t “make all food from scratch” (that’s a non-starter for our family).
is the general consensus that a holiday bonus for a nanny is a week’s pay? (this is our first year with a nanny)
I have never been in a job that was this busy during the holidays and I am strug.gle.ing. Going to have another convo with DH tonight about how it’s time for me to stay home.
Any tips for holidays with kids who are on the anxious side? We are spending ten days with my inlaws, and it will be eleven adults, four kids, and a dog in one house. I anticipate that it will be pretty overwhelming for my routine-oriented, somewhat sensitive 2.5 year old, who even during playdates that she enjoys will say things like “it’s too loud for me” or “there are too many people here.”
Right now I’m thinking of finding a corner in the house somewhere and putting some pillows/books there so it can be a “retreat” (unfortunately our room can’t always be that because her baby brother will be napping there),and also trying to go on a couple of walks a day to get her away from the craziness. Other actions/scripts that have worked for you guys?
why are people so obsessed with Hanna Anderson? i have a gift card to the store and the stuff just doesn’t seem that special to me
When did you start taking your baby to the dentist? I’ve done some Googling and it appears that the recommendation is around age 1, but my one year old only has two teeth, which showed up around 8 months of age. Thethird is FINALLY starting to make it’s way in, but it seems kind of silly to take my largely toothless baby to the dentist. Thoughts?
I posted a few weeks back about getting through a sleep regression with our 21 month old and wanted to share an update. I am happy to report back that we made it through. We fell back on good ol’ extinction. Just like when they are tiny, it was a few really hard nights but it worked.
Thanks for all of the support!
Looking for shopping help — have a newborn photo session next week and will be only 2 weeks postpartum. Need a top in neutral colors with at least 3/4 length sleeves that will be very forgiving for my large chest and belly. Any great suggestions?
Weaning question. I have a 12.5-month-old who decided that he is done with br**stfeeding. Which is fine. He just kind of looked at my n*pple one day and giggled — like, why would I want that when there is so much more milk in a
bottle?! But I digress. My supply had obviously been dropping, but I hadn’t quite expected him to start refusing it altogether all at once. It’s been a few days, and one side is sort of full. I don’t have a clogged duct or anything, and it’s nor engorged, just sort of fuller than it ought to be. I don’t want to pump, because I want to make sure my body get the memo that we’re all done, but… is this the milk going to just go away somehow? This is my third baby, so I feel silly not knowing this, but I don’t remember it being so sudden with the others!