An Offer/JMIT Babble

(Because I'm a Jewish Mother In Training) I'm noticing a distinct lack of household skills in a number of folks I know, of late- in things that I always thought of as really basic: cleaning, cooking, basic mending (sewing buttons). I feel like I should offer some sort of basic hosuekeeping lessons for a number of my friends. Today I gave a basic demonstration of resewing buttons. As far as I know, this is something I learned from my mother before I started high school, possibly before middle school. Certainly she started me sewing "straight" lines around age 6- it was a real treat too, because we could only sew with her supervision, so when she made the time to do so, it was very exciting. I've been cleaning for longer than that: it isn't hard, you just keep scrubbing, unless you're doing walls or something like that.

If anyone is interested in lessons or the like- aka, chances to get help mending or making pleasing food, let me know.


Outside of that, I had a quiet day- slept in, called home, did work, editted Hebrew: all the usual Sunday stuff. Life continues.

An Offer/JMIT Babble

(Because I'm a Jewish Mother In Training) I'm noticing a distinct lack of household skills in a number of folks I know, of late- in things that I always thought of as really basic: cleaning, cooking, basic mending (sewing buttons). I feel like I should offer some sort of basic hosuekeeping lessons for a number of my friends. Today I gave a basic demonstration of resewing buttons. As far as I know, this is something I learned from my mother before I started high school, possibly before middle school. Certainly she started me sewing "straight" lines around age 6- it was a real treat too, because we could only sew with her supervision, so when she made the time to do so, it was very exciting. I've been cleaning for longer than that: it isn't hard, you just keep scrubbing, unless you're doing walls or something like that.

If anyone is interested in lessons or the like- aka, chances to get help mending or making pleasing food, let me know.


Outside of that, I had a quiet day- slept in, called home, did work, editted Hebrew: all the usual Sunday stuff. Life continues.

No Dancing

Didn't get to dancing tonight: my ride was exhausted, and I didn't have time to arrange another ride home, even if that was possible (probably was). So I'm taking advantage of this to go to bed on time at least, if not early. I don't say "ok, I'm tired, I won't go dancing this week" well at all, so maybe it was better that it was "forced" on me. It gave me a nice quiet evening to call Dad, do some work, get a touch ahead and talk a bit. Now, to get myself up and off to bed. I'm not so good at that, of late. Being up is just inherently interesting, even when nothing really interesting is happening.

No Dancing

Didn't get to dancing tonight: my ride was exhausted, and I didn't have time to arrange another ride home, even if that was possible (probably was). So I'm taking advantage of this to go to bed on time at least, if not early. I don't say "ok, I'm tired, I won't go dancing this week" well at all, so maybe it was better that it was "forced" on me. It gave me a nice quiet evening to call Dad, do some work, get a touch ahead and talk a bit. Now, to get myself up and off to bed. I'm not so good at that, of late. Being up is just inherently interesting, even when nothing really interesting is happening.