Home Is Where My Heart Is

Laundry!

Laundry!  Oh my, but a family of eleven (including a little baby girl in diapers) surely creates a lot of it!!  Rick and I have six boys and three girls.  This time of year our homestead is a muddy mess, and my boys definitely aren't afraid of dirt, mud and grease!

In my neverending quest to be a good steward of our family's resources, I choose not to use my dryer, so our laundry is hung, piece by piece, in heat or cold, by my own hands.  Sometimes I look longingly at my dryer as it stands empty on the porch - teasing me to use it, while laughing at me for my frugality.  Sometimes, I say....but not very often.  Every day as I truck my heavy loads of wet laundry outside to the pulley lines, I praise My Father in Heaven for the beauty of our homestead, for the scents of soil, farm animals, fresh air, flowers, and for the gift of those lingering scents on my clean laundry.  My family enjoys the smell of our clean laundry..they tell me so, and I enjoy making my family happy.  Making them happy makes me happy, so it's outside again to the pulley line for another dose of happiness!

God is so good.  He gives me lots of laundry to dry so that I have the chance to appreciate every single day that He has given me.  I love doing the laundry, I love my family, and I love My Father in Heaven!

Have a wonderful day!!

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{ 12:44, Tuesday, April 10, 2007 } { Posted by HandsNHearts }

What a great visit I had here today. Such reminders!!! I needed them today. Thank you for sharing about the laundry.

I'd love to hear about how you set up your pulley lines. We are looking at doing that type of set up here, but I'm feeling fairly clueless at planning it out and getting started.

Deanna

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{ 07:27, Tuesday, April 10, 2007 } { Posted by BackyardTreasures }

Hello! and welcome to homesteadblogger. I enjoyed reading your entry today. I must admit...you are braver than I...I don't hang our clothes out in the winter. We have 6 boys and 3 girls too....ages 23 down to 2 years. :-)

~~Anne

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{ 11:24, Wednesday, April 11, 2007 } { Posted by blessedmomof10 }

Hello,
I just fell upon your blog tonight....... I do understand about the laundry! I have 10 children and that makes for much laundry -- it truly never seems to end!

I will check back again,
gloria