Four years ago this month marks an anniversary for me that brings up mixed emotions.  At the time, it was one of the hardest emotional experiences I have had.  Four years ago today I was in the hospital having radiation treatments for thyroid cancer.  My kids weren't allowed to visit (they waved from the parking lot below) and I wasn't allowed to be around them for two weeks after because the dosage was so high and they were both so little.  And I cried.  And it was hard.  But good has come out ... View the Post

I need help. I feel like I'm always working, always moving, and always behind. It's exhausting really.Ms. Hoole says that, "An ideal homemaker plans a program or a schedule for each day so that she is the master, rather than the victim, of her work."And since, as I stated earlier, I am increasingly falling victim to my work I have chosen scheduling to be my first topic to tackle in my revised experiment. In her book "Project Organization" Marie Ricks says that "A well-used calendar is an ... View the Post

I wasn't a cheerleader (thank goodness---no offense to any of you cheerleaders out there) or the valedictorian or the prom queen but I LOVED high school. I didn't think life could get better.Then I went to college....and I LOVED single girl, art major college life. I didn't think life could get any better.Then I got married and taught school while my husband attended a local university. I LOVED my life (it seemed so perfect). I didn't think life could get any better.Then suddenly I woke up one ... View the Post

Move over Mrs. Hoole, I've got a whole new line up! (And it's stunning if I do say so myself.)Things are about to change with my Homemaking experiment. (Recently I realized that my experiment was too small but too unfocused...too broad but too narrow...too much information but not enough information...) What am I talking about?Can't tell.Yet.I've been stewing over the change for several weeks now and I almost have all the rules set.Almost.Monday morning all will be revealed.Until then I am ... View the Post

Today I may have committed a homemaking sin...a big one. Although it may not be a homemaking sin. It may be just a sin against domesticity. Which technically is probably the same thing...I don't know...ANYWAY the sin of which I speak is this: Today I gave away a bunch of cookbooks...and I mean A BUNCH OF COOKBOOKS.You see this afternoon I was working back in Chapter 4 of Ms. Hoole's book with "A Place for Everything" and I decided to "streamline" a certain room. So I did. So I got rid of the ... View the Post