Evening star., 1953-01-23
HOW 1T REALLY IS.
"a. D. s., Gainesville)

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"a. D. s., Gainesuille)
From the number Of mothers
who write RICH requesting
household schedules and the
great many replies, I deduce
that mine is not the only hus-
band who insists a woman's
work would get done If she'd
only organize.
Well, fellow child raisers.
take heart-you have a sched-
ule. I've been keeping house,
mid sundry other activities,
for seven years now and had
a schedule every single day!
Here's how-about midnight,
when you're almost through
for the day, sit down and
make a list of what you ought
to do tomorrow. Next, 60
over the list and helter skelter
delete at least fifty items, pref
erably those that can't be &C.
compliShed in less than an
hour per. Take the remaining
one or two hundred and sched-
ule one chore every five min
uteS starting at 6 am. and
ending no later than IL at
night (always leave time for
beauty Sleep.
Start the next am. by get
ting up, clean up the unholy
Squalor the kids created before
you arose, dress the kids,
throw something on yourself,
make breakfast, feed the baby,
eat, settle four or five disputes.
Of the children during break
fast, read them a story to
quiet them down, play with
the baby, put the kids shoes
back On, comb girls hair, feed
the dog, administer nose drops
to children needing same, an
Swer the telephone, pick up
the glass baby broke while you
were talking, burn the papers,
go see drawing sister made, ex-
plain to Junior where the
moon goes in the morning, go
erase sisters drawing off the
wallpaper, go see little sister
playing boat, stick some
clothes in washer, 60 wash
shoe marks out of bathtub sis
ter was playing boat in, put
the other kids clothes back on.
change diapers, fix baby a
bottle, tell brother to keep out
Of flour tin, start on breakfast
dishes. sweep flour off the
floor. start lunch, answer door,
get all the kids back in the
house, take wet shoes of, put
burned lunch food in garbage,
make sandwiches, feed kids
whip out schedule and revise
list. Take the eighty or so items
you never got to and put them
on the afternoon schedule. ANY
one knows you can get a lot
done when the kids are asleep.
Tell kids time for nap, get
hairbrush and repeat informa-
ton; explain why nap is nee
essary, wash faces, take of
shoes, put in bed. Come down.
stairs and breath sigh of re-
lief go up and put kids
in bed, come down and start
on lunch dishes, go up and put
kids back in bed. lock their
doors. come down and finish
dishes, empty garbage: time
for kids to. get up; sister has
splotcheS, probably measles,
put her back to bed, dress
other kids, brush their hair,
change baby, play with baby
briefly, go turn shower off,
take of brothers wet clothes,
put on dry. take soap away
from baby, make brother re-
turn sisters doll, give sick one
aspirin, yank covers up over
beds and start dinner, every
body eat. clean up what wasn't
eaten off the floor, feed dog,
put kids shoes back on, settle
current disputes, start on din
ner dishes, take husband news
paper, glance at headlines,
borrow husbands belt and an
nounce bed time to children,
drag up stairs, wash them,
scrub their teeth. undress, put
on PTS, listen to prayers,
depart, come down and get
schedule. Delete first $50 items
entirely. If you're quick you'll
get two or three Of the re-
naming so items finished by
curfew. Don't worry about
all you didn't get done-just
put them on tomorrow's sched-