Whatever became of barefoot, pregnant, and plowing the fields when they weren't cooking, raising kids, and washing clothes on a scrub board?I tell my kids they're on their own with laundry once they hit about 11.
Whatever became of barefoot, pregnant, and plowing the fields when they weren't cooking, raising kids, and washing clothes on a scrub board?
Ahhh.....the good old days.
And on that nostalgic note, I'm off to the sanctity of the deer blind; it's safer.
he is rather impressed it sings a song to let me know when a load has finished.
You BET it's safer!!Whatever became of barefoot, pregnant, and plowing the fields when they weren't cooking, raising kids, and washing clothes on a scrub board?
Ahhh.....the good old days.
And on that nostalgic note, I'm off to the sanctity of the deer blind; it's safer.
Whatever became of barefoot, pregnant, and plowing the fields when they weren't cooking, raising kids, and washing clothes on a scrub board?
Ahhh.....the good old days.
And on that nostalgic note, I'm off to the sanctity of the deer blind; it's safer.
....I was. I carried the boy around as a newborn while I was working in the fields; combining...you name it. He'd move his little foot and switch the powershift on when I was cultivating! Sometimes he'd want to stay with Grandma and help in the garden once he got to toddler stage...but he spent all the combining with me playing with his little toys on a comforter on the floor of the combine. I lambed out 70 ewes a few weeks after he was born. 
5 miles, uphill both ways? Me too.
Oooh...I LIKE your style!!I'm a mean mum. I operate the washing machine (it's brand new and my baby LOL) but the kids (3, 5 and 7) have to do their own laundry plus help me with the family laundry. I do the towels and sheets as those are hard for the kids. Each kid puts their clothes in, I do the operating of the machine, I carry it outside for the kids and then the older two help each other to hang out the clothes (7 year old stands on a stool and hangs and pegs, 5 year old hands her the clothes as she needs them), they help each other to bring in the laundry and then I sort it out - I have a little set of wire drawers next to my desk in the living area, I sort it out as to what belongs to who then they fold their clothes and put them away every day. I fold the 3 year old's clothes mostly, she does a few little bits but she has to put all her clothes away.
I have been accused of child slavery (lol) but the kids have settled into the routine and it's very rare I get any complaints...although we operate on the rule, do everything without complaining or arguing, especially your chores - and if you complain doing a chore, you get another chore to do until you learn to do it without complaining.
Hubby on the other hand still can't operate the washing machine
