Category Archives: Homemaking

Quick! Before It Rains…

Almost all the garden work I do is done in frantic bursts. I rush outside and sprinkle some lettuce seeds in a square section of one of our raised beds. I run out and weed the herbs for fifteen minutes. I quickly mix up some rose spray and douse the bushes before I take a […]

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Not Wrapped Too Tight

So, my siblings, our spouses, and I are throwing a fiftieth anniversary party for our parents at the end of June. We are excited to do this. We are privileged to do this. We are also a little nuts to do this in the way we are doing it, but that’s another blog post.The menu […]

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Basket Case

 One of our laundry baskets broke all the way, and most of the rest are cracking and going fast. I’m fussy about laundry baskets, not to say picky and perhaps even unreasonable. I can’t stand broken plastic, I want them to nest, and I want them to work very, very well. I know. You didn’t […]

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Unsolicited Advice: “What’s for Dinner?”

This one of those my-life-is-nearly-always-happier-and-certainly-always-more-serene-if-I-obey-this-rule things. It is very simple. It makes a big difference. Truly. Really. Want to know? It’s called The Ten O’Clock Rule. I’ll wait while you get paper and pencil to make notes. Oh, don’t worry about it — you don’t actually need any because you will never forget this life-changing […]

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Balancing Balance Part XII: You Get Just This One Life – Embrace the One You’ve Got!

“Did you hear about that woman who ran off and left her family? She had a husband and little kids and everything. Can you believe that?” Now and then you hear a story about somebody who does that – a woman abandons her family, sometimes for another man, but sometimes for reasons unclear. I had […]

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{pretty, happy, funny, real}: Spring (Almost Summer!) Edition

SPRING!!!!!! (Or, almost SUMMER!!!!!)Pretty I know. It’s all Georgia O’Keeffe and everything. I get lost in its center and can’t find my way out. Happy Sandals! No socks! On March 13! I know! It’s all Florida or something — certainly not south-central Pennsylvania… Funny Funny how a little thing like getting one’s hands in some […]

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Listen to Your Mother: Push Up Your Sleeves and Get to Work

This is my mom, Carolyn. Hi, Mom. Here is Mom a few weeks ago, celebrating her birthday. I chose this photo to provide public proof that at least once in her life she was given “the special plate” at our house. Pay no attention to the fact that I forgot to pull it out for […]

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Balancing Balance, Part X: The Home Manager’s Biggest Perk

The other posts in the Balancing Balance series: Part I: Embracing the Truth Part II: Personal Filters Part III: Do I Have the Right to Choose My Filters? Part IV: Personal Filters for Life Management Part V: What are Your Family’s Gatekeeper Filters? Part VI: Where Does Your Time Go? Part VII: Categorizing My Life’s […]

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Unsolicited Advice: Put Your Servants to Work

No, we aren’t talking about your kids – that’s another post. This is about your twenty-first century servants, the ones that usurped the positions of human servants not long after the turn of the twentieth century. You know, the ones that heat things up, cool things down, and make things clean. Did you ever read […]

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Unsolicited Advice: Quick! Before You Go to the Grocery Store

Virtually every household has at least one member who makes regular trips to a grocery store, and if you are reading this blog, I bet you are the one. Some like food shopping, some hate it — I can go either way, and whether or not I’ve obeyed my own unsolicited advice has a lot […]

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