Re: To Share
Posted by: saninocencio1 <saninocencio1@...>
issue. In our house, you take off your shoes at the door. No one, except
guests keeps their shoes on in the house. I have found this keeps our green
rugs from turning brown. Don Aslett (another cleaning guru) teaches
prevention. Good mats and such. We do get dressed and make our beds though.
Believe me it can be a battle with children.
Johanna
Life is the ultimate learning experience!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Amazing Graze Farms" <amazinggraze@valkyrie.net>
To: "A Homesteader's Heaven" <HomesteadHeaven@weloveGod.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 8:14 AM
Subject: [HomeSteadHeaven] To Share
Good morning Ladies,
I just wanted to share some things with you. I may be doing this from
time to time, so I will put "To Share" in the subject line, so you can
delete it if you wish.
Someone wrote just the other day about the Flylady website and list. I
would highly recommend it to anyone. She uses humor and lots of reminders
to help you get your house in order and keep it in order. BY TAKING BABY
STEPS!! It is encouraging. One of the first things she tells you to do is
to get dressed each morning including your shoes. Now, I normally do not
wear shoes in the house at all. I had shared this tidbit of information
with my darling husband. When he called the next morning from work, he
asked me if I had my shoes on. 🙂 I told him, "No, I never wear shoes in the
house." He said, "There you go, changing the rules already." This was said
to me very much in a playful manner. He was not fussing in the least. I do
not have a fusser husband (which I probably need at times). However, in his
saying that, it made me think. What would it hurt to put shoes on. Yes, I
prefer them off, but maybe things have gotten to where they are, by me
preferring little things over what someone else does or say. So, I put my
shoes on. I have to admit, it hardly bugged me at all. Then, I did
something that I NEVER do, unless we are having company. I made my bed.
Now, many of you probably make your bed on a regular basis. Things are so
busy here on the farm, and I can close my bedroom door, so I just figured
that is one thing that I can let go. Now, I have been married for 22
years. My husband has never even mentioned that he would like the bed to be
made. In fact, I don't think he ever really thought about it. However, he
came home last night and went in to change clothes. He immediatly (before
he even changed his clothes) came and found me and gave me a big hug and
kiss and said, "Wow, you made the bed." I was flabbergasted. I asked him
about it later. He said, that it really didn't bother him that the bed had
not been made, but that it showed that I cared and had pride in how our home
looks. He thinks that we need to do these things to be an example to our
children. I don't have a daughter, so I am not training a little "Keeper At
Home", but I do have a son, and I am showing him what a godly (fitting and
orderly is how God does things) home should look like. Even if it is a
mess, I am showing him, but I am showing him wrongly. Then I am in sin.
Anyway, I highly recommend subscribing to the Flylady's list. I don't know
if she is a Christian or not, but she has a good system to get and keep you
home orderly.
God bless each of you, if you made it this far in the reading. If these
"sharings" really bother you, let me know that too. I don't want to be
offensive or act like I have arrived. I have NOT!!!!!!!!! 🙂 But I am
traveling to get there.
Wanting to please my Lord and Savior,
Marci, Adopted List Momma
Amazing Graze Farms
http://www.amazinggrazefarms.faithweb.com
Keep striving to be the best Keeper At Home you can be!!
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