3.08.2015

chores i'm not doing

I'm beginning to acknowledge and accept what I can and cannot do. Part of that is accepting that my house will only be presentable when visitors are expected (and sometimes not even then). Here are some things I'm NOT doing around the house these days:
  • Cleaning the master bath shower more than twice a year (the guest bathtub gets cleaned four times a year - i.e., right before each visit from my parents)
  • Cleaning the toilets (hubby is in charge of that)
  • Making my son's bed
  • Giving my son a bath more than once or twice a week (sorry, bud. When you're grown up and have kids of your own, you can shower more frequently if you want. Like three times a week.)
  • Taking out the recycling (my son has become obsessed with this task, so I have whole-heartedly turned it over to him)
  • Shaving my legs above the knee
  • Cleaning up these videos. Every time I put them on the shelf where they belong, they are back on the table within minutes.
  • Pulling weeds.

While I was outside taking photos of the weeds but not pulling them, I took the opportunity to enjoy how beautiful the flowers are right now. These tall pink ones are wildflowers ("penstemon", for those gardening buffs) that grow in our yard every year. I love them. And they're so easy! They just pop up in the spring and don't need to be watered. I let them die and dry out, then shake the seeds all over the ground when I finally get around to trimming them a few months later. That's my kind of gardening.


More flowers. I don't remember the name of this one, but it's one I paid money for, and it's surviving!



Society garlic. One of my new favorites. I love the purple flowers and that it's more bunny-resistant than my rain lilies are were.


Your turn: what chores do you not do? 

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