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r> THE WORD OF GOD SERIES BY CANDY FOOTE
Moving to AlaskaIt's overwhelming to say the least. How do I get a house full of stuff ready to move to Alaska? Stuff, stuff, stuff! Blah! Don't you hate stuff? It seems like I keep going through this stuff over and over. Garbage piles, give away piles, I can't do without yet piles, and pack it up piles. Any helpful ideas? Candy Disposable ClothingI love styrofoam. Really! Whenever the kids ask what I would like for Christmas, Mother's Day, or my birthday, I answer the same way. "I want styrofoam." Styrofoam plates, cups, and bowls, along with plastic silverware are the best gifts. Now, I realize that this isn't the most frugal, healthy, or environmental idea, but weighed against my peace of mind, it seems like a great idea. Along that idea, I was thinking, wouldn't it be great to have disposable clothing. No more mounds of laundry! No more laundry mat! No more washer and dryer! I think it sounds like a great idea! Please remember as you read this post that this comes from a mom of twelve. Hmm, disposable clothing.... something to think about. Candy As in the Days of Laura IngallsDon't you ever wish you had a parlor? You know, the kind from the days of Laura Ingalls? I know that I do! With all of these kids running around it gets difficult to stay up on housework. Believe me, it is not a mess because I never do anything! I love the idea of a parlor. No one ever enters that room unless company arrives or it needs to be straightened up. Company is immediately wisked into the parlor, so they never get a chance to see the peanut butter painted on the table and benches. Company never gets a chance to see the couches covered with the mounds of clean clothes. Company never gets a chance to fight the laundry pile in order to use the bathroom. Ahh, the idea of a parlor sounds so lovely right now; doesn't it? I Needed More Than a WeekWell, today is Monday, so let's see how well I did on my goals list! # 1- Get all of the laundry done - all of it! Okay, not all of it, but A LOT of it. Thank you Olivia and Heather!! # 2- Organize all of those clean clothes. Hmm, well, at least we started organizing them. # 3- Prepare for the next six weeks of school. Did I mean part of the six weeks or all of them? # 4- Do an all around house clean-up. Okay, I really did an all around house clean-up. You just can't tell it now. # 5- Finish reconstructing my website. http://candyfoote.com/ Yeah, I did a lot on my website. I am adding more daily! # 6- Discipline myself to blog daily. Well, hopefully daily. Hey, at least I am blogging more than I was. # 7- Keep working on my next three books! I forgot how much work it is to write a book. # 8 - Can tomatoes. Sorry, tomatoes, I couldn't find time for you. # 9- Freeze peppers. I never froze any peppers, but we ate a lot of them. # 10- Wrap and freeze about 300 pounds of beef from the bull that we just had butchered. We ended up getting 400 pounds of beef! I guess you know what the menu will look like all month. Now add in my grandson getting an infection and being put into the hospital. Plus, attending an aunt's funeral . All and all, I think it was a successful week "off". Still Working on Those GoalsIt sure is a good thing that I have an entire week to work on this goals list! Olivia, Heather, and I have been steadily working on the laundry. "Mount Never Rest" as some people call it. No organization of the clean clothes other than tossing into dressers, well, so far anyway. Still have tons of school paper work waiting for me. I have been working right along on the general all around house clean-up, though. I have done quite a bit on my website http://candyfoote.com/ Well, you can see that I have NOT been disciplined enough to blog daily. Although, you must admit, I am doing much better. I have been happily working on my next three books. (The Word of God on Prayer, The Word of God on the Words of Your Mouth, and The Word of God on Who I Am") Both the tomatoes and peppers are still waiting in the kitchen for me. The beef came back from the butcher, though. It was 400 pounds, not 300! Yeah! We got all of that wrapped and put into the freezer. Well, most of it. We also had a great supper! I hope you enjoyed the update! Candy A Week OffIt's time to get this place back in order! It seems to fall out of order so easily The kids have the next week off from school. I have some big goals! # 1- Get all of the laundry done - all of it! # 2- Organize all of those clean clothes. # 3- Prepare for the next six weeks of school. # 4- Do an all around house clean-up. # 5- Finish reconstructing my website. http://candyfoote.com/ # 6- Discipline myself to blog daily. Well, hopefully daily. # 7- Keep working on my next three books! # 8 - Can tomatoes. # 9- Freeze peppers. # 10- Wrap and freeze about 300 pounds of beef from the bull that we just had butchered. Wow! Did I say vacation was for only a week. Shelves Verses DressersI find that it is a lot easier to stack baby clothes neatly on a readily available shelf rather than a dresser. Everything seems to get all messed up and lost while hiding in a dresser drawer. Babies need to be changed a lot, so why not make things a little easier?!? Major MondayI really love Mondays. We call them Major Mondays around here. I smile whenever I hear that name! Not everyone in the house smiles as much as I do at the mention of Major Monday. You see, Major Monday is a major clean-up day. Yes, we do a lot of cleaning everyday. With this many people we couldn't go without cleaning! But, we spend a lot of time cleaning on Mondays. We try to do major work; hence the name Major Monday. Today everyone worked upstairs after cleaning up the yard, porch, living room and washing the dishes! We overhauled the bedrooms! Dressers were moved. Toys were sorted through. We changed the furniture around. Clothes were sorted through. It turned out awesome! I love Major Mondays!!! Sorting LaundryI must confess, I don't sort laundry the way my momma taught me to! You know - whites, darks, colors. I have a lot of laundry. I mean a lot! I sort in two different manners depending on how out of hand things are. Usually I make a pants and shorts pile, shirts pile, socks pile, aprons and towels pile, sheets and blankets pile. This seems to work well. If everyone is yelling because they are out of pants, then it's pretty easy to locate them. The other sorting method I use is sorting clothes according to boy's, girl's, mom's, dad's, and baby's piles. Again, if someone is running low, I just wash up those clothes. Of course, laundry is always being worked on, but this system helps me to locate and conquer quickly. JarsI love jars! Yes, jars! We started a penny jar a few months ago. What fun! We started out with a quart size canning jar and kept throwing in our pennies. Every time someone comes home with pennies, into the jar they go. Pennies can always be found under the couch cushions or thrown on the floor in some corner. The kids have a great time searching for them. We had to move up to a gallon jar a few weeks ago. We are almost to the half way mark! My two year old loves to get the pennies out to play with. Earlier she made a big pile, then ran and jumped into them. (I guess she had more fun jumping in those leaves the other day than I realized!) The other kids like to get out the penny jar to help them to do their math problems. Sometimes it's fun to take them out and simply count them or just look at them. Everyone is guessing how many pennies can fit in a gallon jar. So, what do you think??? Another fun item to collect in jars is buttons. The kids love to cut the buttons off from old clothes in order to throw them into the button jar. They are fun to look at and count too. They also work great as a math manipulative. I use glass gallon jars in the kitchen too. They make great containers for flour, sugar, oatmeal, or anything else you may use a lot of. I put a pretty cloth top on them with a piece of matching paper that says what it is on the front. The ideas go on and on. Like I said, I love jars! Clean Toilet!`Okay, here's a subject nobody wants to talk about! Keeping the toilet clean is a challenge. Not due to lack of flushing, but because of it!! We have the dreaded hard water! Ugh! I hate using harsh chemicals to clean it, but nothing else seemed to work. Well, I finally gave Borax a try. After all, I always have it on hand to make laundry and dish soap. It worked! I mean it REALLY worked! I poured some in and brushed it right back off. No waiting time at all! The toilet came out sparkling clean! Hey, what are your great ideas? I would love to hear your cleaning ideas! Ugh! The House is a Mess!!!Do you feel overwhelmed due to the chaotic mess all around you? I know how you feel! It seems the messier things are the less motivation I have! If I could only remember that it only takes 15 minutes. Really! In just 15 minutes any room can look decent. Give it a try! Then come back and let me know how it turned out! Don't have 15 minutes? Try 5! Well, I am off to set the timer! Laundry SoapWhat's the worst part of making your own laundry soap? Well, for me it's grating the soap! I absolutely love using homemade laundry soap, but the grating part tends to be a little time consuming. Solutions? #1 - You know that the kids love to do it, so let them! #2 - When I have the time, I grate up a lot of soap and store it in a ziplock bag. I love it when it's time to make laundry soap and I just have to reach for that ziplock bag! |
