You’ve probably already seen this as it’s made its way around the Internet: The Good Wife’s Guide (from a 1950s-era home economics manual) Have dinner ready: Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal ready for your husband. This is a way of letting him know that you have been thinking about…
Sense of Accomplishment
Ah, the joy of a task completed…and one that is visible to others! I have worked off and on all day cleaning the patio which adjoins the flower bed I weeded and mulched earlier. It has been quite hot today so I have had to take it in spurts but it’s done! Lots of leaves…
Monday Maintenance
Sometimes I feel that all I do is maintain and never really make much forward progress. I can easily fill my day with routine tasks – you know, the stuff that has to be done over and over. Every day I make the bed, scoop the litter box, do the dishes, cook meals, feed animals…
This is the way we mop our floors
This is the way we mop our floors, mop our floors, mop our floors… I’ve spent quite a bit of time decluttering lately, at the expensive of other household chores. Like mopping the kitchen, for instance. Since we don’t have toddlers spilling things, it wasn’t horrible, but it still needed a good scrubbing. It also…
Spicing things up
My husband is out of town on a business trip so I picked up a couple of movies to watch yesterday. I was watching “A Streetcar Named Desire” last night while eating my dinner (broiled salmon — yum). After I ate, I paused the movie so I could put my dishes in the dishwasher and…
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