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The Sacrament of Cleaning the Kitchen

Byjenhalechristy March 18, 2018

I love to cook. I haven’t always loved cleaning the kitchen. Dave and I have an agreement regarding post-dinner time: he takes the kids upstairs for baths and showers, I clean up the kitchen. For the first few years, this was an efficient and logical arrangement, but not a particularly happy one for me –…

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There is Need of Only One Thing

Byjenhalechristy November 23, 2017March 26, 2018

I’ve always considered myself a neat freak. As a young child I tried to implement a Saturday morning cleaning schedule for our family, with all of the chores assigned accordingly. No, it didn’t work. In grad school I was regularly teased for my excessive use of 409 and obsessive cleaning of my house. I took…