After reading the Keeping Home book hubby bought me, I have tried to employ the practice of keeping clean areas in the home clean. It’s so easy to just plop a coat and bag on the couch, but soon the couch will hold the remote, your jeans and even try to eat your cell phone. Just take five minutes in the morning before you leave to straighten up.

In 2002, hubby gave me a book for my birthday entitled Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (by Cheryl Mendelson). The book outlines how to create a home that has comfort, health, beauty, order and safety. Housekeeping is a chore for me. I have come to term with some chores, such as the laundry, but others such as ironing and cooking- I let hubby take the lead on. Since having Amari, scrubbing…