I really detest having household chores to do. Over the years I have developed the ability to ignore dust until right before we’re expecting company. I used to think this dislike was because I had to cram all my chores into the two days a week that I wasn’t working at the office. Now that I’m working only at home, I like them even less because I have so many other ways that I want to spend my time. Luckily, my husband doesn’t want to have anyone constantly disrupting his day to clean around him – a match made in heaven!
There are two or three chores you simply can’t ignore. Jim would say the first is taking out the garbage. Amazing how much garbage two people can make. The dishwasher lessens the burden of kitchen clean up. I love to cook, but not the cleanup.
My least favorite chore is laundry. It seems like you just get it done and there is something in the baskets again ! My sweet husband has started waiting to put his clothes in the laundry on laundry day so I can have this nanosecond of pleasure in seeing all empty baskets.
His sweet actions made me stop to think that I am looking at this all wrong. Baskets full of clothes to wash means we have plenty to wear and I only have to take them to the washer and dryer, not down to the stream to pound on rocks.
The garbage means we have plenty to eat. And even the dust means we have places and furniture for the dust to collect on.
Beginning today, they aren’t chores any more. They are simply every day blessings of my life….but I hope Jim still lets me enjoy a moment of empty basket bliss from time to time!