- sweeping the upstairs while the chunky mini E is in the baby sling to try to get her to nap despite Awful Horrible teething
- menu planning on a scrap of paper on the fridge mess, based on current fridge contents and current cravings, to keep ahead when dinner time rolls around and not have to start staring at the contents of the crisper to find a source of inspiration
- meal cooking in the mornings so that at night when I am working from home and trying to hide from the youngsters who are under the care of the nanny no unfortunate encounter and total loss of productive time occurs
- putting the purple school library bag by the garage door on sunday nights, loaded with the school library books, and emptying the back of the car to make room for carpool boy and carseat
- running a laundry of diapers on the way out to school in the mornings
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Whether it's labelled multi-tasking, domesticity or hard working, what I wonder is this
When did we forget that it's a learning process? Not only are we not born with the ability to know what laundry schedule works best in a given home (mostly Mondays and Friday here, plus washable diapers whenever), but we don't even learn it while growing up anymore - so busy are we with thrilling homework and busy afterschool activities and, well, tv.
We spend a bunch of years getting a degree in school; do we honestly expect to know how to run a home with any number of people and any amount of loss of sleep without trial and error?
I pompously declare the importance of relearning this. And being humbled by the experience.
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