Posted in Balanced Life

In my quest for homemaking inspiration, I have stumbled on a few simply delightful refreshing blogs devoted to the lady's art of lovely homemaking. http://charmingthebirdsfromthetrees.blogspot.com/ has a sort of challenge to loveliness which she calls the "Commitment to Loveliness". You are asked to choose five tasks each week that will increase the loveliness in your life.

I have been feeling challenged in many areas of my life recently and must confess to having developed some very slovenly habits lately. It's not pretty! So this commitment seems very appropriate to me right now.

My Commitment to Loveliness for This Week:

1. Create a list of basic chores that MUST be taken care of daily or weekly (you know, things like feed the family, do the laundry, wash the dishes, make the bed......) and attend to them.

2. File current year's tax papers.

3. Deep clean master bathroom.

4. Wash windows, valances, and blinds.

Cleanliness is good, but where is the loveliness? How about......

5. Bringing a flower into the house for the dining table everyday.

Here is the post where you can read about the Commitment: http://charmingthebirdsfromthetrees.blogspot.com/2007/04/april-22nd.html