Fitted Sheet, Picture Edition

Hello! Sorry it took me awhile to get the picture version of Fitted Sheets up. Elizabeth recently started teething and we spent a few days battling a 101.4 fever. Good news is: she hasn't had a fever in a couple days. Bad new is: she'll be teething for the next year or so. Fun stuff, teething. Also, my pictures aren't as great as I hoped for. While going to world war III with that fever, my sheets got to sit in the dryer getting all wrinkly. So for your convenience I decided to use a crib sheet. It was a still wrinkly, considering it was in the same load as mine but it was smaller and a lot easier to fold by myself while attempting to take pictures with the help of Curtis, of course. He's my #1 helper! So, let's get to this!


Step 1.
Lay your sheet out, or hold it up, with the top two corners right side out.

Step 2.
Put your index finger perfectly in the corner of the other end of the sheet, inside out.



Step 3
With your index finger still in the inside out corner, place it inside the corner that was already turned right side out.

Step 4
Do that to both corners, and it should look like this.
(Don't forget, I used a crib sheet, so it will be much larger.)

Step 5
Fold. You can fold it anyway you'd like. You may want to try it a couple different ways until you get the size you're going for. Full size sheets are much more difficult than crib sheets. (Obviously!)

Voila!
You're done. Good job. Pat yourself on the back and jump around screaming like a little school girl "I did it! I did it!" then go brag to all of your friends that you finally figured out how to fold a fitted sheet.

This is what my full size sheets ended up looking like.
Almost the same thickness but the fitted one was a tad longer than the flat sheet. I ended up tweaking the fold just a touch until I got it just the way I wanted it. Which was after my son had gone to bed and I actually had room to do so. My camera had died by that point so I didn't get a picture of it.

So I hope I was some help. Now go take a break, after your put those neatly folded sheets away! You deserve it. I know how exhausting laundry can be, especially after about 5 loads. Washing, drying, folding, and putting them away in the right spots, now that's a full time job. Haha

Thank you and have a nice day.
-Crystal
Lights, Camera, KIDS!

Broken Tire - Broke Mommy

So tomorrow is my best friend's sister's wedding shower. I really want to go but the thought of taking a 2 year old to a wedding shower is not just making my stomach do flips, it's putting on entire olympic show. I keep picturing his little fingers poking every cupcake, ripping into the bride-to-be's gifts, spilling drinks, stepping on toes, you know the usual two year old problems. Plus while keeping up with him I'll also have to keep my, now teething, 5 month old calm. There will be other kids there but I just KNOW it will be my child that causes all the problems.
Also, we had to buy 2 new tires yesterday because one of our front tires was shredded. We also had to get new drivers lisences because my husband's was already expired and mine was going to expire on the 15th. So that was about $140 that we had come out of our budget and quite frankly who wants to go to a wedding shower with a cheap gift or even worse no gift at all? YIKES!
Anyway, I'll sleep on it and we'll see how it goes.
Oh and happy 22nd birthday to my best friend (another pro to going tomorrow, I'll get to see her!)



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