Giving New Meaning to Parenting

A friend of mine related a story last week in which her granddaughter got to the kitchen one morning only to find that there were no clean bowls to use for breakfast. She immediately headed upstairs and complained to her dad, who then called mom at work to ask what to do. (This [...]

I am in the zone. You know what I mean, don’t you? I have my headphones in. I have the kids all in bed. I have the house quiet and now I’m moving as fast as I can to make up for all the damage done to my house during the day. There’s laundry to [...]

I’ve written about chores here before. In the spirit of being honest, I have to tell you we abandoned Chore Wars shortly after trying it. There were 3 problems: 1) –Me. I hate having to log in separately for each boy to keep track of his tasks; heck, I hate tracking [...]

Our house is generally clean and neat, but I know it’s in need of certain attentions: Hand-me-downs lurk in a closet, waiting to be sorted and tried on. The kitchen longs for reorganization. The playroom toys pine to be sorted through and rotated. The checkbook screams to be balanced; the computers groan for an operating [...]

All right, I’m taking a poll: how many of you think you have a clean house? How many of you clean your homes (maybe not in every nook and cranny, but pretty much top to bottom) every week?
Honestly now!
Because the truth is, I am an awful housekeeper. I hate it. I get no joy out [...]