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I usually try to have pasta a few times a week because it is fairly easy to prepare and there are a million different variations.  But if we have pasta at lunch-time, I can’t have it again for dinner.  Also it’s so hot and I really don’t want to turn the oven on.  Sometimes my husband will barbecue for us so that gives me a break, or does it?  I still have to make the pasta salad or potato salad, prepare all the veggies, cut up the watermelon, make a tossed salad, and then clean up the mess after everyone is done eating.

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Cooking more meals isn’t the only extra job during the summer.  With so many extra foods being prepared and eaten, there is a lot more mess on the counter, table, and floors to tidy up.  I have a white tile floor in my kitchen (what a mistake that was) and you can see every spill very clearly.  Sometimes you can find all the colours of the rainbow on my floor because of the orange juice, red fuit punch, purple pop, not to mention the green grass smudges and just plain brown dirt.  Who ever invented white tiles anyway?  They obviously didn’t have kids, or if they did they must have had a maid to help clean up.

I’ve written an article about my laundry situation before, and in the article I was wishing for summer so that there would be less clothes to wash.  Well, I was wrong – there isn’t less laundry at all.  The clothing is just smaller because the shirts have short sleeves instead of long, and the kids wear shorts and bathing suits instead of long pants, but there is still a TON of laundry to do and the floor sure needs a lot of attention from all the grass and sand that is tracked indoors.

At the beginning of summer I am always glad to have my kids home with me and when my husband takes his holidays it is great to see him everyday and not just at suppertime, but by the time September rolls around, I am so worn out that I’m glad summer is over and everything can get back to normal.