A few weeks ago, my daughter came home in some odd-fitting uniform slacks.
Honestly, though, as a not-so-terribly-observant-about-such-things mother, it didn’t really register until she handed me a plastic shopping bag full of clothes to wash.
Then she proceeded to tell me how there had been an unfortunate accident at school. I knew that (thankfully) it wasn’t that kind of accident since this is my child who was potty-trained more than five years ago after ONE accident. Seriously. She couldn’t/can’t handle even slightly damp clothes.
No, she had fallen/sat/swished by a puddle or something.
Anyway, my rule-following girl proceeded to tell me the nurse’s instructions about how we needed to bring back the borrowed clothes the following Monday after we washed them.
And I said, “Tell ’em Mama does laundry on Mondays.” Maybe not with quite the twang I hear in my head when writing it, but that’s what I said.
And I wasn’t even lying.
Or procrastinating.
Or hoping.
I do. I do laundry on Mondays. It was a strange/nice/odd feeling to say it with such confidence, knowing that on Monday, those clothes would get washed along with every other item of clothing in the house.
Now remembering to return the clothes? That’s a different story.
I love my home management binder! I mean, when I can find it, I love it. Seriously, creating a home management binder was very helpful to me. It allowed me to view homemaking as a college course. I can do college; homemaking? not so much. Putting the binder together helped me create lists for cleaning, Bible reading, homeschool, etc. I do not look at it daily, but it is helpful.
I need a list of all the lists I’m working on. Although, I’d probably lose that, too. It goes back to knowing what does (and doesn’t) work for me.
I love lists, so will enjoy making the most of the ones in the bundle. Yes, you sold me on it. And of course, I read 28 days to hope for the home the day I bought it. OK it was the second book I read not the first, but I did read it that day. (And yes, after I read it, I went and did the dishes.)
I make lists for just about everything, and I also lose most of the lists I make. It;s still worth making them though, because the mere fact of sitting down to think about what I have to do, and then taking the time to write it down helps me to remember the things even if I do lose the list.
Alternatively, many lists are kept online / on the computer which I don’t tend to lose.