There are a lot of similarities between Americans and Brits, but there is one glaring exception. Ironing. I didn’t know ironing was a thing until I met my mother-in-law. She told me, with a straight-face, that she liked to put on music and work her way through a pile, nay mountain of ironing which included, but was…
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I Just Sat Down! (And Other Examples of Parent’s Law)
On any given day, I spend what feels like ten hours a day in the kitchen. Washing, chopping, buttering, wiping, stirring and attempting not to burn myself with the torn oven mitt I keep meaning to replace. Organizing, folding, standing in front of the refrigerator trying to remember what it was I came to get. Whatever…
How to Piss Off a Housewife in 10 Easy Steps
Due partly to circumstance, partly to choice, I am a housewife. No, it’s not what I imagined for myself. It’s not what I went to college for or dreamed of as a young girl. Cleaning up spills and brightening my whites is certainly not contributing to my Roth IRA. But for better or for worse,…
Wine and Cheese (Doodles) 