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Of Course It’s Not Easy! It’s Work!

Posted by Hallee on Aug 31, 2010 in Housekeeping, Life

Homemaking is a job. It requires full time attention. It encompasses a huge amount of responsibility from maintaining a clean home, doing laundry, cooking, caring for children, caring for the spouse, gardening, preserving, etc. etc. For some of us, it also includes homeschooling.

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Out with the Old…

Posted by Hallee on Jul 2, 2010 in Housekeeping, Life

The calendar I have hanging on my refrigerator is an academic year calendar, which means that it runs from July through June. The only reason for this is because we closed on and moved into our house on July 2nd. By June, I’m antsy to start putting together a new one.

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3 Chores You Should Do Every Night

Posted by Hallee on Jun 1, 2010 in Housekeeping

Evening chores are the hardest. Most of us have put in a long day and our bed beckons. It’s so easy to think that you can tackle it in the morning refreshed and ready for another day. But when you put it off, then you put it off again and put it off again until you’ve lost the control of your environment. If you can accomplish these three chores evening, before retiring for the night, you can keep a handle on your household. These are the three main areas that typically get out of control and bog down our time when it’s time to clean. If they’re already done, then we can focus on the actual cleaning rather than catching up.

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My Favorite Cleaning Day

Posted by Hallee on May 21, 2010 in Hallee's Galley, Housekeeping

Thursdays are my favorite cleaning day by far. Mondays are a scramble to get our main living areas back in order after a weekend of no chores. Tuesdays are bathrooms and the boys’ room – I don’t think I need to say more. But Thursdays – Thursdays I clean my kitchen.

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How to Fold a Fitted Sheet

Posted by Hallee on Apr 29, 2010 in Housekeeping

Video on how to fold a fitted sheet.

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A Plea for Ideas

Posted by Hallee on Mar 23, 2010 in Housekeeping

That’s toothpaste. Those of you who know me personally 0n Facebook may remember The Great Toothpaste Incident of 2010. I thought letting it dry and then scrubbing it off with a brush would be the best idea.

Bad idea.

It’s been scrubbed, wiped, cleaned, and now steam cleaned. This is over the course of a few weeks.

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Clean Sweep

Posted by Hallee on Mar 23, 2010 in Housekeeping, Life

Spring cleaning made a lot of sense for centuries. When homes were heated with wood or coal, the winter heating season brought a build-up of soot and ash on walls, furniture, and fabrics. Spring cleaning marked the end of the heating season, when the entire house was aired and scrubbed clean, when windows could be opened and the winds of spring would blow through the house, refreshing it.

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And They Said It Couldn’t Be Done

Posted by Hallee on Mar 19, 2010 in Housekeeping, Life

After eating chili and peanut butter sandwiches, they each grabbed a chocolate cupcake and ran around the church gym, playing and running and playing some more. A friend stopped me at one point in just a panic. “Have you see their shirts?” Another one came up to me, “They’ll never come clean. Chocolate just doesn’t come out.” Another one said, “I don’t know how you’re staying so calm.”

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Red Handed

Posted by Hallee on Feb 8, 2010 in Housekeeping, Parenting

The pictures didn’t come out. I’m irritated because you can’t see how bad this really was. These are little Jeb handprints – red handprints – more specifically, handprints made from hands smeared with red lipstick. I don’t want to really discuss the incident or the red handprints that went all the way up the stair banister, the stairwell wall, the upstairs hallway, the boys’ bedroom door…

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Easy Christmas Wreath

Posted by Hallee on Dec 9, 2009 in Housekeeping, Stewardship

I priced Christmas wreaths sometime before Thanksgiving and was just appalled at what they’re getting for these things. I was at Garden Ridge, so I looked at a $49 wreath and made one as nearly identical to it as I could.

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