Housewife

[franceslievens]

My spare time gets eaten up by washing and ironing. In that light I'm not looking forward to #2, who'll only add to the pile of filthy clothes in the laundry basket.

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[frenchani.livejournal.com]

In that light indeed, but number two will also provide lots of joy.

BTW I keep forgetting to ask you but did you receive my card?

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

I'm really looking forward to a new baby, but sometimes I want a cleaning lady. ;-)

Got your card, but seem to have forgotten to mention it. Thank you very much!

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

I don't mind the ironing and washing so much as you can do that with a baby underfoot. We completely fail on the cleaning. Vacuuming is just about possible, tidying is difficult (also down to a lack of storage space - space we've got, just lacking in shelf-space/furniture). I don't know how proper housewives do it...

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Ironing with LB walking around is hellish. She tends to come and look what I'm doing, wanting to "help", but well I'd rather not have her fiddle with the ironing board while there's a hot iron on there.

P. does lots of the cleaning. I'm very grateful for that. I think proper housewives are less lazy bums. To be honest I remember my Mama (a proper housewife) mainly ironing, cooking, doing the dishes and reading books in between.

Sometimes I wonder how I did it last year, when I was on my own most of the time. I wasn't pregnant then though, and could survive on too little sleep each night.

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

He loves "helping", too, and he gets quite close to the ironing board, but he usually takes some clothes from the basket and 'folds' and 'irons' them on his own 'ironing board' which is actually one of those small mini-ironing boards that you can use to iron sleeves on - Ärmelbrett in German.

One has to be very careful - hands on the iron at most times preferably, but it's doable.