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2014: Our summer of housekeeping training
Posted on July 21, 2014December 15, 2014

2014: Our summer of housekeeping training

Last summer we taught our kids how to cook. This summer, I’m teaching them how to clean. We’ve been away from home for four weeks. We camped, we visited family in Georgia and Florida, we vacationed on a Gulf beach, and the kids and I traveled north to Charlottesville to visit my childhood girlfriends and … Continue reading 2014: Our summer of housekeeping training

Posted on January 13, 2013February 7, 2013

Would I know how to do this if I had taken Home Ec?

Through a freshly cleaned window, spotless and clear, I watch sunlight burn the fog out of the valley. The morning light changes from a diffuse blue gray in the distance to a crisp yellow on the tall trees outside our neighbor’s fence, casting sharp shadows of tree trunks, of limbs, even of the jagged bark. … Continue reading Would I know how to do this if I had taken Home Ec?

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Andrea Badgley is a mom, wife, reader, and writer. She grew up on the coast of Georgia and now lives with her husband and two children in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia. Her work appears in Southern Women’s Review, on the Brevity blog, and on The Daily Post. Follow her on Twitter @andreabadgley.

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