Each morning each of us in The Stepford Wives Association begin each day an hour before our families wake. We go downstairs and begin emptying the dishwasher and set the table for breakfast. If we have bread to bake, we will get the yeast started.
We make coffee and begin waking the family, beginning usually with our husbands and we each have our own personal ways of setting their day off on the right foot. Our children and babies are next, older children do have alarm clocks but sometimes neglect to set them, so taking a moment to check on them is a good thing.
After assuring all are beginning their morning routines, we begin cooking breakfast, setting out coffee and juice, and doing whatever is needed. Yesterday in our home the breakfast menu was a whole grain pancake, fresh fruit and warmed berry preserves as topping. Everything made from scratch naturally.
Lunch boxes were prepared and filled with carrot sticks, a small apple or other fruit. Petite sandwiches, with goat cheese, turkey and arugula with a drizzle of cranberry. Sandwiches for our are sliced into fun shapes filled with their favorite ingriedients.
When our children are safely on the bus and our husbands are out the door, it's time to begin our cleaning rituals. We call them rituals because everything is accomplished in a proper way. We scrub our bathrooms, wash down the showers and dust the floors. As we leave we wipe the door handles. We go through each room with a dust cloth, make beds and fluff pillows. We vacuum high traffic areas.
We keep meticulous lists and plan errands to conserve gasoline. Too many marketing trips lead to overspending. Our husbands lay out a budget. We dress sharply when we run those errands. We walk slowly through the stores and never toss items haphazardly into our carts. It isn't easy, the slow purposeful walk we do. We mustn't rush through the store, since rushing can lead to overlooking items we need.
Upon returning home, we put away the items methodically.
We do often take a few moments to go through the mail, removing junk mail into the recycle bin, the rest goes onto our husband's desk. We might also check email also. We will send a text message to our husbands to let them know we are home safely. That brings to mind another thing we always do, or rather will not do; we never leave our homes without our husband's permission.
We begin to get ready for our children's return from school, we offer them a snack and assist with homework. During this time it's also useful to begin dinner.
Look for part two tomorrow.
