Open and Shut Case

I wonder why I find such comfort in organization?  I need things to be in their proper place.  I feel anxiety when I know a closet is in chaos.  It's as if I can sense it behind the closed door telling me that it needs to be stacked and sorted and labeled.  I start to feel overwhelmed when there are too many things out of place. 

Here I go again on the nature vs. nurture thing.  I really do wonder about that quite a bit.  It intrigues me.  Have my children inherited some of my tendencies by imitation or just because they have my genes?  Not too long ago, my mother said something that made me laugh to myself.  She was straightening up some papers and items on the table and said...I'd better put this stuff back the way it was because Dad likes things lined up.  Funny how a little comment like that can hit you.  I had never really thought about my need for organization being something that was passed on from my dad.  But I suppose it is.  I do like things lined up and at their proper angles.

Maybe it's the German in us.   Watch this gameshow!

So I wonder about my granddaughter, Josie.  Tom posted a video of her just running around the house going about her toddler business.  I didn't catch it at first, but Bethany commented on it.  At one point, she stops jumping on her bed and climbs off to shut a drawer.  Wow, did that ever remind me of myself.  I like to have drawers and cabinets properly shut.  So have I passed my love for order on to my granddaughter?  


Is there anything you see in yourself that comes from your parents?  Or anything in your children or grandchildren that is like you?