Friday fiest

Christine over at "Are We there Yet Mom" has given us some food for thought.
Go over and join us. We'll all have a little stone soup for thought.

Appetizer
Describe your laundry routine. Do you have a certain day when you do it all, or do you just wash whatever you need for the next day?

My life is a series of bubbles. As it bubbles up to the surface. I will often do loads in a group. I'll get the kids clothes done by doing the washing and drying, with them switching the loads for me. I make one large pile and separate Dash from Dove. If the clothes are turned out I will fold them if not they each have their own pile and after school they turn them right side out. I lay the shirts out flat in a stack and hang them by placing an hanger in and then just fold the hanger over never lifting it until all are on hangers.. They put the things away for the most part. I do sox's every 2 weeks. I keep a sox's basket,I mate them when they are flattened and separated into colors/whites. For our laundry I wait and do 5/6 loads in a day. I separate textiles /colors, hand wash delicate. Wash and hang a lot out on the line and then lay shirts and dresses Mine/HIS, out flat take to closet and lay them out on a stool and insert the hangers and hang them in there place. Sorted with like items. By laying shirts out flat and smoothing them out, you have much less ironing to do.

Soup
In your opinion, what age will you be when you’ll consider yourself to truly be old?

I think of age as becoming more the fool (a fool gets old this is a very grievous thing to me) you have lived to be or acquiring the wisdom that the Sage gains (a sage becomes an Elder).
I am gaining knowledge through understanding. If I live through the lessons and walk in wisdom, then to be old is to be sage (this is my desire). It has no year but it has a character that is developed over time.
Now the bones are another thing. Joy keeps wherry bones and pain at bay. My bones are not spry as once they were, they creek and grown. My bones have lived hard not in years but in experience. Bones have a life and it is limited. My bones are becoming old before their time. It is to be my effort to gain as much from them as I can. Joy is a benefit to endure the physical pain of the bone. Even the very young can have to face old bones.

Salad
What is one of your goals? Is it short-term, long-term, or both?

Short term is to address many piles of time consuming tasks. So that I might have my studio free of the mass of clutter that is stiffening my creativity.

Long term is to raise my children up into honorable independent adulthoods.

Main Course
Name something unbelievable you’ve seen or read lately.

The History of the 1960's. It is an amazing time in world history. It was the time of my childhood. I was the only one of 8 children who did not run away. It was a time of social anarchy in our country. It was a time of mass murders in the Check Republic, Mexico and all over our globe our college and university students were beaten for standing up to a corrupt upper level leadership ( and in some cases acting like jerks). We were at war in Viet Nam and it was massacring so many of our citizens ( and theirs too). We had a level of devision in our country that almost took us down. People were at polar views and no one could hear each other. Our soldiers came home and were at war here in their own country with fellow Americans after having been drafted into a war that left them wounded in so many ways. Soldiers were forced to come home and attack their own country men and women at Burkley and many other campus all over. It was a time of HELL in America and throughout the world.

Dessert
On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being highest, how happy are you today?

I think more today in terms of peaceful. I am very peaceful a 10. Happy? Well it is sorta relative... I am so pleased with the life I have the privilege to live. So in that a 10 happy to be who I am where I am, and doing what I love. I am very sleepy. The battles are light so far today thats a 10. The children are established with esteem thats a 10. The transitions are smooth and I am calm, my pain loads are low and I was able to walk around the block ( 10's).
I think the attitude of gratitude is making all of it a 10. I am glad to be alive and to be in God's embrace.