Today I felt like should post about a housewife's worst enemy. LAUNDRY!
It seems no matter how much you do it there is ALWAYS more, and you can never get ahead.
So here is a peak into my laundry room.
One of the great things about this house is I was blessed with a HUGE laundry room with beautiful cabinets. So much nicer than having to go out to the garage (especially in the winters we have here!)
The dogs sleep in the kennel at night, he gray bin is our diaper pail, blue holds dog food. My vacuum and mop are behind the door. The chair is only in there while Abigail has her high chair at the table, and the recycle bin is on top of it. The dark brown basket is my sewing basket, and the others up there are my laundry baskets. The blue baskets has storage jars. The step is for Andrew to reach the dog food when he feeds them each morning (it also helps him to toss dirty clothe sin the washer when he helps me).
One of the big things that helped me was to make my laundry room pretty. I have verses on cards that match the flowers above the windows taped to my cabinets.(and this picture shows it is definitely time for new ones!) Its not especially beautiful, but its enough to help me have a more cheerful attitude about a tedious job.
The next thing that makes a difference for me is doing laundry EVERY day. As soon as I wake up I toss a load in the washer. It's habit now, and putting away a bite sized load is much more manageable than a huge mountain once a week. Plus we dont have that many clothes! I wash all our clothes together, and rarely separate loads (only Peter's white t-shirts get washed separately because he gets upset if they look dingy). After the clothes are dry I separate them, and the boys each put their own laundry away. I feel it is so important to give children responsibility!
So for us, after the laundry I do a load of diapers, and once a week a load of sheets/bed linens. We just have one set of sheets per bed (well 2 for us now because a sharing a bed with a baby means more changes than normal!) and the days I wash those I do them first thing in the morning and put them back on around lunch time. One less thing to store, and I know I MUST have them back on by bedtime.
Hope that gives you some ideas, or helps someone. It works for me :)
Currently reading :
Stepping Heavenward (Inspirational Library Series)
By Elizabeth Prentiss
