Blogs Tagged With housekeeping options | rated: b

  • cozy afternoon

    I am having a lovely comfy afternoon. Danny and Joey and I hung out as a family this morning. Danny and Joey cleaned up the living room while I prepped crock-pot beef stew. A little while ago Danny left for a doctors appointment and then off to his parents and then off to school (which is where h…

  • Another one of Freed-Hardeman's oddities

    is room inspection. Every week on Tuesday at 2:00 PM our dorm mom, Mama Ashley, checks our rooms to ensure that they're clean. If you didn't take out the trash, even if it is confined neatly in a trash can--you fail. If you didn't make your bed--you fail. Et cetera. One of the other dorm moms once…

  • Preparing for Winter Comfort

    Fall is right around the corner. I can feel and smell it in the early morning air. My thoughts are beginning to turn from the busyness of harvesting our small summer garden and fruit trees to preparing our home for the cold winter months ahead. I've learned over the past 30 plus years of 'keeping a…

  • Cooking, Laundry, Planning

    That title should say it all on what this day is looking like.There will be lots of laundry because while I was out yesterday a little boy tried to flush rocks down the toilet, which then flooded, and because no one went to look the room below the bathroom also got soaked, and that would be my laund…

  • Should You Choose Debit or Credit?

    August 4, 2010 at 9:30 AM by Amy Roberts I've written quite a bit about credit cards, but I know that many people shun them entirely, in favor of using their…

  • What Would You Pay Someone to Do?

    Image Source Discussions about efficiency will often include the idea that there comes a point when it's better to pay someone to do something instead of doing it yourself. For instance, it might take you longer to do a chore so that the value of your time makes it more costly in the long run fo…

  • Taking Time to Beautify Your Life

    Guest post submitted by fireflysouth Somewhere along the way, I lost control. I think it was in the midst of the daily opportunities to do three loads of laundry, cook at least two meals for seven people and clean the house. I realize that I am basically keeping the chaos at bay. You only have to…

  • Housecleaning and the Rhythm of a Home

    I've been in my new place long enough to begin noticing the natural cleaning rhythm of this home. Every home has one. It begins surfacing within a week or two. A homemaker begins to notice how quickly furniture collects dust, how often the floors need to be mopped and so on. I thought living in the…

  • Late Lasagna

    Earlier today, I yanked a paper towel off a fairly new roll and turned to wipe off the stove. When I heard a little noise, I swung around to see that the *entire* roll had continued to unroll in a pile on the floor. I discarded the part that touched the floor and rolled the entire Bounty Basics bac…

  • Week in Review

    This week has been quite difficult. I've had to come to terms with some issues in my life. I've been having problems with anxiety for... well... for as long as I can remember. I'm afraid of people, public places, making mistakes, being judged, etc. Normally I've been able to cope with these irra…