I blew the Internet Regula right after I made it public…. sigh. That always seems to happen. Anyway, I spend a long time writing a post about unschooling on my other blog. IT did help clarify my thoughts but that’s also a good rationalization for spending EVERY day typing for an hour in mid-afternoon and actually brushing my kids away from me. OK! I am resolved to pick myself up and try again.
I didn’t keep a careful log today. We all did the minimal basics and got outside. It was an at-home day. So pretty much a repeat of some of the other days.
A quick note about laundry. I never mention it because it’s one of the only housekeeping things in my life that has never caused a problem beyond temporary glitches when we have been on vacation or have a colicky newborn (when my husband usually ends up taking over the laundry until things are running better). Usually I do the laundry, though the kids pitch in now and then. Right now we don’t even have a dryer which means if I don’t do laundry every day I am in trouble. So I usually put a load in to wash last thing at night and then take it out and hang it in the morning. It’s dry by evening so if we have to do 2 or even 3 loads in a given day I can usually manage it if I strategize. I hang the laundry on our loft rail and it air dries from the warmth rising from the wood stove below (how quaint and mountainy, I know!)
Why is laundry not much of a challenge around here when so many housekeeping things like cooking are hard for me? These are my explanations:
- I don’t have elite athletes in the house, or babies in cloth diapers.
- We don’t change our clothes every day because we don’t go somewhere every day.
- WE don’t go somewhere every day so I’m usually around to transfer clothing from one station to the next.
- We have a large capacity washer/dryer.
- I don’t bother with the extras — softeners, etc — we have lots of skin allergies in this family so simple and natural works best.
- Husband works at home in T shirts and jeans or shorts or sometimes pajamas, so no ironing.
- I put all the boys’ socks and underwear in two separate bins in our laundry room after I wash and roll them, and they get their own out.
- I rather like laundry and wish everything to do with housekeeping was so do-able. My car is always a disaster and cooking is really difficult for me — fussy kids and I just don’t enjoy it, so we don’t have the variety we probably ought to.
