A Few Random Thoughts

I was putting the millionth load of laundry in the washer yesterday and you know what I was thinking? Nothing. It just hit me that I am now so used to some of the mountainous tasks that come with a large family that I did not even think of it. They do not seem mountainous any more. Just a part of life. The same goes for dishes. We are one of those few odd families who does (or is it do?) not have a dishwasher. Well, we do but it broke down about three years ago so now it just sits taking up space in our kitchen until we figure out how to unhook it to throw it away. It is one appliance that will not be replaced even with a bigger better model.

Anyway, I was thinking about what has changed about those particular chores that made them less mountainous. We do a few things different. Let me think...there is one person assigned laundry room duties for the week. The chore is done three times a day which means a guaranteed load of laundry washed,dried ,and put away each time they do the chore. I also made it a habit to flip laundry through out the day as I walk by the washer. Not bad. There can be a back up when our dryer decides to take a few cycles to actually dry the clothes but catch up is just a few loads away when that happens.

As far as the kitchen/dish duties. Once again a child has the kitchen chore for a whole week. The chore is done three times a day by the child including towel drying ...gasp...Jeff and I do the in-between chore stuff.I think the key to the dishes not being so overwhelming is when the children are excused from the table after eating they each do their own plate,cup,and utensils.That takes care of most of the plates,cups etc...not bad.The dish doer just needs to do what it left over.

I do not know how these particular chores fell into place but they did. Of course, our house is far far from what I would consider clean but these particular areas I remember to be so overwhelming last year and now they work rather smoothly. This is a nice random thought.


Another random thing...

Look at this cute Pebbles and Bam-Bam fabric book I found! I was pretty pleased.

We have Never

tried this before.

We go big grocery shopping once a month. Our refrigerator is not big enough to hold the dozens and dozens of eggs we use for the month so we crack three or four different meals worth of eggs (maybe 45 eggs per meal) into big freezer bags and freeze them for future tasty scrambled egg or french toast breakfast meals.

Dividing up the eggs was my task for yesterday afternoon. A few of the kids had read something about egg blowing (I do not know the proper term) decorated Easter eggs. We have always boiled our eggs before decorating them. A discussion led to this...





Not even sure we went about it the right way but it was fun!

Recycling

One thing we seem to usually have a lot around here is broken dressers. For some reason dressers do not seem to last long at our house. I needed a place to store my next on the list projects. I have a lot of things in bins but it is kind of a hassle having to spend time digging around in bins looking for stuff so I end up stacking things in laundry baskets which just makes the living room (where I prefer to sew) look very very messy. I thought one of our many broken dressers could come in handy!Recycling!

Pretty neat! I will eventually add two cute little curtains to hide my projects.







We use the sewing tables for school as well if we need to. Having my sewing machine in the living room is nice. I still sometimes sew on the dining room table if I need more space.