So the Mister decided to help me out this week by doing a project for me, but I suspect he also did it because he knew I was dilly-dallying.
I came home and opened the utensil drawer to find he had cleared out all the toddler forks and spoons. He also cleaned out all the crumbs and organized the drawer, which has a sliding compartment, making it a double drawer. He didn’t take a before picture, naturally, so you’ll just have to imagine a jumbled mess.
Although Mikey is 9 and Nico is 6, I had many good reasons for keeping their toddler spoons.
- We might have company over with young children.
- The boys have petite(ish) hands when compared to teenagers.
- The spoons are the perfect size for dispensing little amounts of somethings.
- The forks are just the right size to get something small out of a jar, like an olive, should one ever get stuck and we need it in the event of a food shortage during azombie apocalypse.
- They don’t take up that much room when compared to everything else in the house. Like the sectional, for example.
You can see why I pushed this to the back burner. Alas, the day arrived.
We are now the proud owners of an adult utensil drawer. We have forks and spoons and knives. Directly below that we have fancier forks and spoons and knives that we use on occasion, but really only when we are behind on cleaning the regular forks and spoons and knives.
I’m a little sad about the whole thing, honestly. I’m sure I’ll get over it when the drawer opens without me having to pry it open using the strength of 40 men.
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Awww…see, if you manage to hold onto that stuff long enough you can justify keeping it because you might have grandchildren soon. Not that I’d know about doing things that way. :)
Grandmother! Hush, Susan.
I cleaned out the board books and lots of the picture books last weekend (at my youngest’s insistence). I put at least 3/4 in the basement, just couldn’t get rid of those torn up baby pages.
I still have a few of those that I know I should donate.
So sweet of him to do that. It made me sentamental thinking of cleaning out my toddler spoons and when the time comes I know I’ll stretch that one too. My son is 2 so I still have plenty of time ;)
Enjoy it while you can!
I have to ask…did he leave you a note in the drawer?
I was wondering the same thing!
No note! :) He’s not a love note…or any note kind of guy. His love note is the clean drawer. Hah!
How thoughtful of your hubby to do that! We’ve got the same drawer in our house and I just had a light bulb moment to store the utensils on the side. Ours always gets jammed since we stack them on top of each other! :)
Yes, we started doing that out of necessity!
Oh my gosh, I love this and it totally cracks me up because I have this compulsion with buying toddler cups/utensils/plates/etc. Granted, my kids are 4 and 2 but they’re such a mess and none of them stack properly AND my kids LOVE to use the grownup versions. I watched this video on Design Mom once and her little two year old was drinking from a glass cup and I had an ah-ha moment. My kids will be ready to start using grown up stuff when I let them…it’s probably not developmental at all. Maybe I’ll attack those drawers today too :)
We started training the boys to use glass cups by giving them canning jars! They are super sturdy so they don’t break when dropped and the little threads at the top are perfect for little teeth that like to grip. They don’t break off, either! Obviously I always checked!!
Loved this. Read it, went to make lunch and did myself a WM project! Well, almost, I didn’t shake out the crumbs but did bag of the small forks. Made me sad enough to move them to the “junk” drawer to be dealt with another day but at least they are out of the space we use multiple times a day. Babysteps, right?!!!!
I can’t bring myself to do this, lalalala I can’t hear you.
I let this job linger until my kids were in high school. At first I just looked past the baby stuff in the drawer and cabinet. Then it took a bit before I was ready to let it go. So, you are still ahead of me!