They talk on the radio of “domestic tranquility” and I laugh. There’s not much tranquil around here unless the children are in bed. I try to pick up, spruce up, do the dishes up, but often, despite my best race-around-as-soon-as-naptime-is-over efforts, I welcome him home to a very messy, crazy, noisy house. I hand him…
Unplugging allows me to gain perspective on my computer time and the effect I allow it to have on the rest of my week. -Trina Holden (@TrinaHolden) in “My #1 Sanity Saver” on trinaholden.com When you own your own business, you can never really leave work at the office. When your family business takes place…
I don’t know about you, but too often I tend to visit social media networks when I’m too tired to do anything else. Which can easily lead to me typing Facebook comments that I’ll think better of in the morning. Or Tweeting something that sounds a bit more negative than I would if I’d written…
I ask her to pick up her room and she does anything but. She runs in from outside, fist full of flowers, “I picked this bouquet for you, Mommy!” “They’re beautiful, honey, but aren’t you supposed to be picking up your room?” She comes from the school table, “I drew all my letters!” “Good job,…
It might be tempting to write off-the-cuff posts on social media networks without regard to proper spelling or punctuation, but when you do, please remember that they are a part of the whole of your online presence. If you are committed to serving others online, you will serve with excellence, no matter the venue. A…
Now that you’re giving everyone easy access to your social media profiles in your email signature, it’s time we take a look at those social media profiles themselves. With all the different apps and smart phones we use to post to social media, we rarely have cause to visit our own profile pages. It’s easy…
I keep trying to do and to be more and more. But I feel like I’m sinking, deeper and deeper. I reach for something else, holding on for dear life, hoping it will be the thing to keep me afloat, to lift me out of this mire. Yet its weight only pulls me deeper. But…
If you’re online, chances are the only communication method you use more than Facebook and Twitter is email. But when you email someone about your website, do they have to Google your name to find it? When you mention the fact that you’re following them on Twitter, is it easy for them to find your…
I love hanging laundry up on a line to dry. For the extra time it might take, standing out there in the open air, feeling the breeze on your face and hearing the birds sing is definitely worth it in my book! Besides, can anything beat the fresh smell of line-dried laundry? –Chantel Brankshire in…
It seems like laundry day always falls on a day full of so many other to-do’s. And the toys are a mess and the dishes need doing but if the laundry doesn’t get hung out in the morning it won’t be dry by dark on these short autumn days.
But isn’t it when we’re dirtiest that we’re most in need of washing?
The young woman had apparently been in the middle of a washing day, for she wore an apron, her sleeves were rolled up to the elbows and there were soapsuds on her hands. If she had had time to put on her good clothes (her best hat had imitation cherries on it) she would have…
I asked a few friends from around the globe to give us a glimpse of what laundry looks like in their corner of the world… Washboard in Belize “This is one of my favorite pictures from our travels. We were visiting our godchildren in Belize, and Phoebe wanted to help with the laundry. Prior to…
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