Copperswife

Month: September 2006

  • Incremental Approach to Catching Up – OR – How Copper’s Wife Digs Herself Out of a Hole

    What happens when you have neglected your household schedule for too long and one, or more, jobs has become too big to manage?   Even when you have been faithful to your household routine, sometimes a job gets away from you.  There are ways to catch up in even these circumstances.  First of all, don’t give…

  • Thursday September 14, 2006

    Whatever system you use for maintaining your home, NONE of them will work for you unless you stick to it!  You must follow your household routine in order for it to work.  I know that might sound rather obvious, but how often do we look around our homes and think, “If I only had a…

  • Wednesday September 13, 2006

    Do you have a home maintenance/housekeeping schedule?   Perhaps you call it your homemaker’s journal.  If you don’t, you should!   If you need some tips on getting started, I would highly recommend the book  Sidetracked Home Executives, by Pam Young and Peggy Jones. This is the book that I based my very first housekeeping schedule on. …

  • Wednesday September 13, 2006

    Ten more days until Fall, so why do these pictures from my yard this morning make me hungry for Thanksgiving dinner?????            

  • Wednesday September 13, 2006

    Yesterday, Tuesday, was Dani’s 23rd birthday.  We celebrated last evening with our family, including Corin and her husband and children.             Happy Birthday, Dani-girl!

  • A Different Kind of Procrastination

    We all procrastinate.  Some of us are worse than others, I suppose; but we all do it.  Not wanting to make that phone call.  Not wanting to tend to that dreaded chore.  Waiting to iron the clothes until the pile outgrows the laundry basket (that’s me – guilty as charged!) Lately, though, I’ve noticed more and…

  • Tuesday September 12, 2006

    We bought a new leaf blower.  Total cost, about $75.00. The joy the 7 year old has gotten from the box – a price beyond measure!!

  • Monday September 11, 2006

    Thanks to all of you who have been praying for my grand-daughter and for my 7 year old son. Corin and her husband discovered late Sunday afternoon that the baby’s real source of pain was her left wrist!!!  They knew that crawling hurt, but had been assuming that it was still her leg hurting her.  A…

  • Monday September 11, 2006

    http://www.dcroe.com/2996/       9/11/01 – Phone rings, early morning.  It’s Corin.  “Mom?”.        “Yeah, honey, what’s wrong?”       “You guys better turn on the t.v.  A plane has gone into the World Trade Center.”      My morning began just like that.  I’m sure you all remember where you were and how you first heard the shocking…

  • Saturday September 9, 2006