To Do List

~ laundry
~ finish Christmas cards
~ laundry
~ hang some items throughout the house
~ laundry
~ reading
~ laundry
~ attacking the calendar for a 6 month outlook
~ and you guessed it...more laundry

Happy Monday!

Hospitality

"But in the culture of ancient Israel, out of which the church was born, hospitality was among the moral foundation stones of society. Israel was a wandering stranger, and God took her in, and fed her and clothed her and housed her; and in response, Israel was to care for the alien and stranger in her midst. Christians in their turn saw hospitality as a basic way in which members of the Christian community could emulate and hand on the welcome they had received from God."

-excerpt from Keeping House: The Litany of Everyday Life

Trying to Forget My Fantasies

"Forget fantasies of 'accomplishing something.' Perhaps somewhere in the world there were people who measured their days by how much they got done-at work, in class, wherever. I measured my days by whether, at the end of them, the members of the household had been dressed and fed and bathed and put to bed. If we had been, then that was a good day. I had done what mattered most. Everything else was gravy."
~Keeping House: The Litany of Everyday Life

Wordless Wednesday

Moving mountains...

...of laundry!

Tom (yes, there is a person in the picture!) had to use a bed sheet to carry down our laundry because there was so MUCH!!! Besides, all of the laundry baskets are full of clean clothes I haven't put away yet. Did I mention this doesn't include the girls' dirty clothes? I don't think their bed sheets are big enough! I think I will include this on my application for

Mother of the Year!