If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed Congratulations! You have been to to Ship Full O’ Pirates over 100 times! Just thought you’d like to know. I finally have all my kids at home for the whole day all at once. When you have teens this just happens more [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Homemaking category.
New Phone Service?
There’s a giveaway at the end of this post! But it’s not a phone. I love my cell phone. I have an unlimited minutes kind of plan. Watching minutes makes me nervous, so I love this plan. I’m a grown up, so I don’t text much. I have texted in my life, I’m just not [...]
Purging, Hacking and Riding – What a Day!
You may remember that we are getting ready to move house in a few months. We’ve lived in this house for goin’ on eighteen years, and saying that makes me feel like a geezer. The thing is. . . there is an, um, an accumulation. An accumulation of CLUTTER! Good grief. I am so glad [...]
PaperBackSwap
I guess y’all know we are preparing to move house for the first time in 18 years. This week is a big un-clutter push. We’ve been working on the garage and the older boys’ room. Good grief! What giant heaps of . . . stuff! We’ve hauled a ton of junk out to the curb [...]
Smells like Christmas!
When you need your house to smell wonderful and Christmas-y right away, get out your big pot and fill it about halfway with water. Slice up a couple of apples, oranges, lemons (any combo ya like, all I had today was apples, so that’s all I used) and toss them into the pot. Then add [...]
Justification!
If I clean something while I goof off is it really and truly goofing off? Did you ever notice how the things we look at all the time get dirty right before our very eyes and sometimes we don’t notice the grime because it comes on kinda gradual-like? The Confession My kids and I sat [...]
Copywork for Boys
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. ~John Lubbock I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ~Thomas Jefferson The difference between try and triumph is a little umph. ~Author Unknown The real [...]
I’m so blessed
It started out like a regular day. I had high hopes to get a lot done. I blew some time on the ‘puter (before breakfast!) and then got the ball rolling. We had a good breakfast. Oatmeal and muffins. Then I had a “hormonal moment” of grumpy-ness. Not over the top, but still, no fun. [...]
Feelin’ Kinda Redneck
Do y’all read Down to Earth? She is such an interesting lady. She had a wonderful post about laundry. And since laundry is my life, (well, it feels that way on most days) I was immediately drawn to it and had to check out the links she included. I was so inspired to get back [...]
The Plan – part 5 -The Schedule
I guess (having just now looked again at the actual question you asked) I tend to look at the whole week, rather than the day so much. But just for fun, here’s how the day usually looks. 6:30 Hubs wakes me up 7:00 he wakes the children, I cook some cream of wheat and maybe [...]
