Have any other housekeepers out there ever wondered how far to take your housekeeping?
Sure, you sweep the house, take out garbage, make meals but:
Do you wash their laundry?
Do you make their beds?
Do you organize their computer desktops?
I refuse to finish this thought; I have something much more interesting to write about.
We got two buchas and our warm clothes and started a short trip to Caney River. It's brown and flows in a ravine, in a bed of mud. But along it, the trail runs through a forest of leafless trees, some of them dead and several fallen. Black branches lay in the leaves on the ground and there is little underbrush.
We walked around on cement paths with small acorns, squished and unsquished, making a bit of interesting terrain for my bored bare feet. But it was so beautiful. We went a-wandering, too, into the forest and in a big place like a tiny valley--it went down to a flat place with trees, reminding me of the places I used to write about in my Daggers of Ajumbra story when I was younger. I wrote it while living in Idaho and breathing in fresh, country air and travelling to the most secret places in our woods. I knew what plain, unveiled poetry was--it was this. This thing I walked in, spent as much time as I could in. This land, untouched by people, where you don't have to try hard to discover where its beauty is.
Then, we got back in the car and Papa drove us to Atwoods, where we walked around and bought a couple things, and then Judes, where he bought us fudge and pumpkin bread. Then we went home and it's bedtime!
That's The End!
2 comments:
oh as to the housework chores food making etc Havi it depends on how old everyone is but yes good to teach them independence responsibility on their own too of course. Like i believe i did teach my kids to wash their own clothes after a while idk how old but when they did get older of course n i may have been late on that too, anywho i think i taught them both how to hand sew and they both figure things out too w/out my help pretty smart kids. So if they are not too young they can clean up after them selves put things away etc cook ,but cooking of course supervised if they real young. idk boring topic you say i know but yet important too at times. i guess it depends on the family each child etc ya know. What is sad here is that we all here eat dif diets so we don't have sit down table dinners at least once a week. I will try to get at least a once a week sit down din for us going again. As everyone gets older too more dif schedules as you know this too i am sure. anywho hope i was helpful n not boring...
I have always appreciated how your mother n father taught you kids to help with chores etc n they knew each kids strengths n weaknesses etc which chore for each kid or taking turns or whatever you know this more than i as you lived it. but i have always thot of your home run as a well oiled machine (Jesus fueled of course ha ha)
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