The Final Word on Laundry and A Few Words on Photography

First things first, I know you girls are soooo interested in my laundry dilemna. You must be up late at night wondering whether I've gotten that under control. Thanks to everyone for the encouragement, snippets of advice, and most of all for letting me know that I'm not totally alone here. The verdict is in! Doing all the laundry in one day does NOT work for me! Perhaps I'm too easily distracted. Perhaps my family is too big for such a task. Perhaps I would make a terrible Amish. It wasn't happening. Soooo, I went back to my old plan which I see was actually a good one to begin with- it just needed a little more attention and follow through. Dave has told me before that the enemy of good is better, and I will have to agree with him in this case.

FLYlady trumps. I should have trusted her all along. She's been right about everything else.

Clair's New, Old Laundry Schedule

Monday- Boys clothes
Tuesday- Girls clothes
Wednesday- Dave's and my darks
Thursday- none (this is grocery shopping and errand day)
Friday- Whites
Saturday- bedding, towels, etc
Sunday- none (I'm renewing my spirit with all other FLYbabies)

I'm not perfect, but I'm doing much better. For the most part, my children haven't had to run downstairs naked looking for underwear in the "to-be-folded-one-day-if-not-used-before-then" pile. They can find their clothes in their dresser drawers. I start a load as early as I can each morning. Then, I'll run one more load if it's needed. Sometimes I fold in the afternoon- sometimes not till the end of the day. (Yeah, I know you SHOULD fold right away when the clothes are fresh and hot out of the drier, but I'm taking baby steps here. Give me a little time.) Anyway, I'm giving myself a happy face each day I wash, fold, and put away!

Thanks for hanging in there with me.

I'm going to throw all caution to the wind here and make this a double topic post.

My second topic is...photography. I've been eating and sleeping it lately, which is just the way it goes sometimes. I notice that I go in cycles when it comes to photography. Sometimes it barely gets a blip on the radar screen, and then sometimes it consumes me. I just finished with a very fun senior session and a totally cute family session. So I've been busy editing those. I recently ordered new business cards, and I'm dabbling with the idea of offering baby announcements, holiday cards and such. That means I have to figure out if I can and exactly how to use card templates in photoshop, so I'm experimenting there. Next week I'm going to teach a little Enrichment Activity at church on taking better photos, and I'm working to get a power point presentation ready for that. AND I'm way excited to get to be a student again when I start an online class in April! So you see why I say I've been a little preoccupied with all things photography.

Laundry and photography. Sigh...

I think now's a good time to try a new trick- making photos really big on your blog! (Thanks goes to Andrea for sending this tip my way.) Okay, large is good, and I know I just said something earlier about better being an enemy to good, but sometimes better really is best. You just have to use your best judgement. All things in moderation, but I'm going to go for it. Let's see how it works with a picture of two brothers from my latest family session...



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