A Neat and Clean House vs Children
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| Tue, 07-27-2010 - 8:35am |
For those of you who like a neat and clean house, how do you keep it that way with children?
I find that if I am tied to goal of having a neat and clean house, I become a raging shrew against my children as they proceed to undo all the neatness I have worked so hard to attain. If I made a "neat and clean house" my goal, my children would not have their messy projects that take days/weeks to complete. My children would not pick up a book (casually left out)as they walk through the family room and browse through- discovering once again the mother actually knows about a few good books. I would let them watch more tv/computer time, as they don't make things as messy when they do. I would squash their ideas if I thought it would make too much of a mess. I wouldn't let them cook/experiment in the kitchen- as it is usually more work for me to clean up after they have "cleaned up". So, how do you inspire creativity and imagination in a neat and clean house? Are you on top of them to put things away as soon as they are done even if it is temporary? Where do you put the legos?....... Have you ever allowed them to take over the living room with all of their toys arranged in a city complex (thomas the train things were the Metro, legos and blocks were the buildings....)? How long would it stay up? Would let it be up for the summer so they could add to and change tings around as they got new ideas? Or allowed them to take over half of the family room for a month+ while they build and live in a beaver lodge (using all the empty shoe and other boxes and some that weren't empty)? Even if you have to walk around it everyday to get to the kitchen? Or do you require that all toys be put away everyday?

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I've never had someone who was available to turn a crockpot on for me after I left for work. I was gone for typically 9-10 hours when I WOHFT and nothing that I ever made could cook that long and still come out right. Mine has a warming feature. I'm sure that meals that require shredded type of beef/pork it's fine, but for any kind of chicken dish I've ever made, it overcooked the chicken. Plus, most recipes (not all) that I've come across call for canned soup which I don't like to use. I've just found that for me personally, crockpot cooking is more work than just preparing the meal from start to finish, or letting it simmer on the stove or in the oven all afternoon.
Obviously many people are quite successful at crockpot cooking, but for me, it just doesn't work well. But like Savcal, I love to cook and just haven't found that many crockpot recipes that taste very good. Some, but not many. Which is why I rarely use it b/c I like variety in cooking.
Me too, on the cook top.
I don't have double wall ovens but a couple of years ago I did get a pretty large toaster oven and it does make it nice having two ovens on holidays. The rest of the year I rarely use my regular oven, only my toaster oven.
That is very true.
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