Although there has been much grace from God, including the glorious orange and golden sunset we had this evening. There were also rainbows...in February.
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Another household improvement from last year that I'm appreciating now is a clean laundry sorting area I established in our basement laundry dungeon. Formerly I did a week's laundry, stored it upstairs, and then sorted and put it all away at once--sometimes ten loads' worth, and caffeine definitely helped.
I realized with my children getting older and my time less constrained by littles that they could fetch their own laundry and put it away. I had just gotten a start on the new system when a neighbor Providentially set a shelf out by the curb, the kind with four big square cubbyholes. That holds clean, sorted laundry for four children now, and on top are improvised containers for the other family members I do laundry for.
On the floor in front of the shelf I put a wire closet organizer shelf, six or eight inches high, from another neighbor's curb, for baskets or bags of laundry waited to be sorted--or taken upstairs, in the case of towels and such.
I only just realized or remembered the other day that with all this within reach of the dryer, I could just sort laundry straight out of the dryer.
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Eldest Child led a final effort to use up the remaining apples from the fall. They were beginning to taste more like pears than apples, and still had to be checked over every week or so to remove the rotting ones. They lasted a lot longer than I expected. Very few perfect apples this time.
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