Pedigreed Housewife World

My cousin Colleen is a cleaning genius! Any question about cleaning that you have, she has the answer, and a backup answer too in case you need it. I am the polar opposite of her in that way. Cleaning is a horrible, time consuming, dirty chore that I usually scrape up the money to have someone else do for me. But I want to teach my kiddies that it is important to take care of our own things and so that means I have to actually do it. Boo! Step 1 was fire the maids. Honestly, it took me about 3 months of being dissatisfied before I got up the courage to risk going it alone. But I’m here now and Colleen has equipped me with her awesome green cleaning methods and I’m going to involve the kids. They think it’s a fun activity, I think it’s help cleaning. We’re all happy. In fact when the kiddies see the pile of groceries I got to do this, they can’t wait to get to the cleaning so we do it a day earlier than I had planned. *** Briana has been asking about what it means ...

Given the recent school shooting, like most parents, I’ve been feeling nervous about the safety of my little ones. I just couldn’t stop myself from thinking how helpless my 3- and 5- year olds would have been in that situation and it had me wanting to look into home schooling. I have to trust that their school is preparing them for emergencies at school, but I need to augment that. It’s time for us to talk more about safety. FIRE! Oddly, driving home from school yesterday a car in front of us on the side of the road caught fire. My kids were fascinated. So today, after naps, we started with fire safety. I think that this one will be pretty straightforward because we’ve talked about fire safety a lot, firemen visit the school, we visited a fire station, etc. I ask the kiddies casually, what do you do if there is a fire in the house? Abby says, “Check if the fire is in the fireplace. Then get hot cocoa.” Ok, if the fire is not in the fireplace, then what...