What Needs to Go?
I’m standing in my daughter’s room, and we touch every item and decide whether we need it anymore. We are making space. Saturday cleaning day means deep cleaning for Spring. We pile up books we never read, clothes we never wear, and toys we don’t use into one big heap to donate. Afterward, the room […]
Real Men Vacuum
On Saturday mornings in my household, we all pitch in to clean and reset the house for the next week. Children dust and organize rooms. I scrub floors and toilets, fold the laundry, and change all the bedding. Real Men Vacuum And my husband vacuums. Then he takes his smart phone with the Grocery IQ […]
You Weren’t Alone Today
Do you remember when I cried while mopping my kitchen floor because I was thankful for the filth? Well, today I bring out my mop to clean the floor once again, but this time, I think of a different narrative. I imagine who else in the world is mopping a kitchen floor at this exact […]
A Message From God in my Vacuum
Yesterday, I vacuumed my entire house. We recently had the carpets cleaned, and the kind cleaner suggested we needed a new vacuum. He said to get a “multi-cyclonic” system with a canister I empty out–not the bag kind. I like my old vacuum. It’s been with me all these years. To me, the carpets look […]
What’s Worth Keeping?
Yesterday, my oldest daughter had to choose one object from home that best represents her to share with her class. The teacher wrote: “Find one thing that best describes who you are.” She said she’d choose one of three things: her Bible, her journal, or a photo of her cats. She values God, her writing, […]