list 4 : ten things I will learn this year
- what it feels like to have both kids at school
- either embroidery or cross stitch
- how to create a timetable for a large secondary school (new role at work - mildly terrifying)
- onenote software program (work again)
- how to make souffle
- how to plant and tend a productive winter vegetable garden
- more photography
- the art of folding laundry as soon as it is taken off the washing line
- whether I want to increase my work beyond two days a week
- how to painlessly de-tangle Milly's bed hair
The folding of the washing gets me every time.
ReplyDeleteMe too, and every time I finally attack the monster pile I wonder why I let it get to this. Ugh. This may be the year I force myself to change.
Delete8 and 10 have eluded me my entire life.
ReplyDeleteMe too. I have only a vague hope that I will conquer them.
Deletehs! I just endured a week of NOT folding the washing at the Hills Hoist before bringing it inside. It was awful. The living areas were a mass of tortured, wrignkling clean stuff that just sat everywhere and seemed to get bigger and bigger. Its such a small thing, but that few minutes outside, folding as I go, saves oodles of mental anguish later. Also, I put the hanging stuff straight onto clotheshangers rather than pegs. Then its just a matter of grabbig them and putting them directly into the wardrobe. The ironing jobs are out of sight, and we usually just iron as we go...or I wait til a good old movie and do it them. Best of all, I never have a clean-clothes basket spilling everywhere mocking me.
ReplyDeleteGood grief, did I really just opine about washing?! x
You sure did, but I am inspired. I will look back at this when I am faced with masses of laundry to fold.
DeleteI have just this week started folding the laundry straight from the line, before I bring it inside. Will see if that lasts or not. I've had ideas of giving each of us our own colour-coded basket/tub with our folded washing - that way everyone is responsible for putting away their own. {Living in a 6x4 shack leaves no spare room to pile the clean laundry.....}. Isn't it silly how long we leave it to pile up when really it takes less time to put away than ignoring it all week (fortnight) and sorting through it every time we want something from it.
ReplyDeleteAlso, my mother-in-law has this wonderful stuff that she puts on my daughter's hair (every time we visit within moments of us walking in the door and seeing my daughter's knots and tangles that I can't deal with anymore!!). It shines and smoothes out the knots and stays that way for at least a good few days. I keep forgetting to find out what it's called / where to buy it. {except I always buy non-animal tested products and I'm doubting it falls into that category}. Will let you know when I find it's name.
Souffle - good luck. I'm hoping for macaroons or perhaps a good meringue this year. We'll see if I manage a decent kitchen to be built first!