On Rainy Days and Laundry

I wonder why, I like very much to do the laundry. I think it's  one of my favourites homemaking chores, or should I say, Missions.

I don't know about you, but I have a Laundry Plan, which makes all the work much easier.It's scheduled and I haven't to think about  it.

But  then, there it came a problem: the rain.

Now you are thinking why is the rain a problem.

First I must say that I like so much the rain and I can't stay longer without it but, on  the other side, being a homemaker makes me long for a whole week of sun.

And now you are thinking why this woman doesn't just put the washed clothes in the dryer? Or can it be that in her corner of the world there is no dryers? Yes, there are and, in fact, I have one and it works perfectly. Why the problem, then?

Oh, well, this woman who has a dryer likes to put her clothes in the line to dry. The little pleasure to see the cloths all in a row in the line and the pegs, the sun on them, the smell of washed clothes bathed by the sun...Pure poetry !

We are having unstoppable days of rain. Should I stay happy with it or should I go sad because I can't put my clothes on the line?

Well, better to find a compromise. I have a place to put small things to dry inside so I will wash just the little ones.

Oh, how life is easy after all, why we make a problem of it ?

Laundry, laundry, here I go.

Thanksgiving Day !

Many years ago before we were married, my husband organized a Thanksgiving lunch (in Europe) to invite me and so that way we could get closer.
I must say I didn't know anything about his intentions. So he invited several people including me. I went.
Well, things went very well, in such a way that one year later, on Thanksgiving Day, we were already married.
That's why I like Thanksgiving, even if I'm not american.

Happy Thanksgiving for all my American friends.

Christmas songs in my mind

Christmas Countdowns at WiddlyTinks.com

I wonder why but this time of the year is for me always so inspiring. As the days get colder and the trees go golden I just just want to live. Not as most of the world understands it, not to go out and socialize, have fun in the noise and so on, no, I just want to live in my world - and that is so good. And this year even more.

Did you realize that is almost Christmas?
I know, Americans have still Thanksgiving to think about but for me all I can think is of Christmas.

I'm already making plans. I will begin a Christmas Planner and as I wil progress in my preparations for Christmas I will tell you about it.

I wonder if there is someone out there singing already Rudolph, the Red Nosed Raindeer and making plans.

 

Saturday happiness approaching

Saturday is approaching and, with it, the perspective of a happy time. You know, I am an outside home working woman, yes, full time ! So, to be happier, on saturdays I just think that I am full time house wife. Oh, happiness. So, today I am already dreaming on everything I will do on Saturday.

So I will dust

clean some windows

do the laundry: wash, put on the line, pick up, fold and put away



iron it

clean the refrigerator ( yes, again)

and do a lot of work in the kitchen including make a cake.

Well, to say the truth, I will do a million nice things around my house. This is just a tiny bit to give you an idea. 

Oh, happiness.

Christmas is arriving

Christmas is arriving. I'm happy singing Jingle Bells and Rudolph the Red Nose Raindear. I'm thinking on making lists - making them already in my mind - on what I have to buy, to prepare, all those things. Planning and planning. But there is another thing I want to prepare: a peaceful, blessed Christmas. So, beginning today I will pray that we will be able to enjoy every little thing in this Christmas with our heart full of peace and blessings of Our Lord. And I will prepare Christmas now even more happy and full of peace.

Like a child

Christmas Countdowns at WiddlyTinks.com

Like a child I'm counting the days for Christmas and my mind runs wild with plans and Christmas songs. I like so much this time of the year!

So the countdown begins

Yes, in my home we begin thinking of Christmas at this time of the year. No, we don't put the Christmas Tree or the Nativity till the first of December when it's the official inauguration day. But til then and from now I begin to think of:

- Presents

- Wrapping Paper and Bows

  I do like wrapping paper.

- Poinsettias

and other things that I will show soon.
Today I leave you with this so maybe it opens your appetite for Christmas Dreaming.

It gives me inspiration for tidying and cleaning the house, thinking that soon it will be Christmas.

When is still night

I always thought that the wisdom in Proverbs 31:15 is a good advice for every homemaker and it has been a good source of inspiration for me.

There was times when I rose when it was really darkm still night but now I have been rising when the sun is born. 

To say the truth, in these last mornings it has been so dark, really night still.

Oh, it inspires me. And my house shows that inspiration doesn't stay still, it rather makes me move.

So I'm decided that from now on I will go back to the going to bed early and rising when is still night.

My home and family will apreciate it and I wil feel so good about it.

The Kitchen

I don't know why when I think of homemaking, of cleaning and tidying I always think on the Kitchen or Laundry. Well, maybe also on some Bedroom tidying.
As for today, I'm thinking of heading now to the Kitchen and make those counters and things on it sparkling.

As somebody has inspiration for that also? I have so... here I go.

On past windowsills

As I said in my last post, I'm dealing with my windowsill in the kitchen. Once it was always pretty but as many things in my life it just lost the usual care it had from me. As in all the other parts, I'm recovering and so
is my dear windowsill. No, not ready to go on the internet, but I am working on it. So, I leave you with some pictures of my windowsill in previous times.

Yes, it will be pretty again.