Keithswinn

As we grow older we want to secure that we have the place to dwell in, a place where you called home. As time pass by your kids grow older, you want them to have their own rooms in your home, you need some home improvements. Later we have a living room; we have to think of a way to give your kids some privacy. We improve our house, we convert our living room to another rooms, to make 2 new rooms out of our living room. Now they have their own rooms when they can make their work for school, and sleep every time they want. Thank God that even we don’t have enough money to spend in our home improvement we were able to do it. Little by little we improved our house, even my husband which is an electrician do the works of a laborer, he do the electrical works and help in the plastering of the cement. My siblings help them in putting white cement in the tiles, and my son help his father mixing cement, and other help in throwing all the debris that comes from the wall. At least now they have their own room where they can stay.

Living a simple life even if you have the means to live the good life is a common practice of some of the super rich. Take a cue from George Soros, one of the world’s greatest investors. Worth more money than some governments, Soros was far more modest than other people of great wealth. Not in the habit of collecting things, his tastes were not pretentious. He eschewed a chauffeur or bodyguard, hailed his own taxicabs, walked from one part of town to another, stayed in student quarters when visiting a university campus and even took public transportation.
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Have you ever stopped to wonder about everything your back door has experienced? We all have our homemade rituals there, but we usually don’t consider them anything special. I think my back door would tell about how year after year I secured it last thing before going to bed. The lock was broken, so I improvised by placing a cut-to-fit broom handle into the sliding space. I was locking in the precious things, like babies, toddlers, schoolkids, and warmth; and beautiful things too: the poem book written by my grandmother, the antique lamp salvaged from an abandoned farm, the vase potted by a local artist. I was locking in a secure family identity in the form of irreplaceable documents, records, and personal files.
And what was I locking out? The cold. Critters in the dark. Potential violation of my family and my person. Vandalism of our home. The act of locking up each night is motivated by much more than fear or precaution. The story my back door tells gives me a different perspective on life in its fullness. When I lock up each night, I’m not worrying about how much I had to pay for a new windshield that day or how much I have to do the next day.
Locking the back door at night is a way to say good night to the moon, and beneath it, to my habitat on this earth.
Tonight, after locking up as usual, Twill turn back to the hub of my home and remember how I once would go tuck covers around
sleeping children or answer a last call for a drink of water. Tonight I will switch off the music, close the damper on the wood stove,
and put out the last burning candle. I will think about how my back door is an icon representing indirect opportunity and, if nothing more, a sign to love each day I’m given.

Being a sick person, I called sick because I have asthma, now I have an allergic rhinitis, everything with strong smell like perfume and smoke can trigger my asthma attack, how I wish I had a medical plan and health insurance, I spent a lot of money for my medication and I cannot take any vitamin C because I also have an allergy on it, it is sometimes the cause of my attack. It is so hard to have this kind of ailment, every weather or climate change I can have my asthma attack, I can’t go far from our house, and I can’t go anywhere I want because of my health condition. Sometimes I am shy to tell my daughter about my medical needs because I know they also have their own financial problem, they don’t even tell me when they had a problem, that’s the reason why I’m ashamed with my son in law, but thank God they understand most. That the reason why I want to have my medical plan for my health status so that with this plan I can save money for my hospitalization and medication, because when I was hospitalized I saw a patient who had her medical plan, she told me that it is like saving money monthly that can be used whenever you are hospitalized.

Sometimes, I am asking myself, why woman wants to marry and settle to a relationship that for me is not a peaceful one. Mother Hood is a big struggle in our life. What if you encounter a man, who is irresponsible, how about if you get a man who will hit you when he is drunk? That your kids will grow up on a wrong relationship. You can’t even look after your kids because you are the one to look for a way to live. You don’t even have a rest in giving birth, because yearly you are pregnant. Nothing to put into your stomach because as a loving mother to your kids, you will look always after them, you will let them eat first before you. Now a day you can see a girl at a very young age is experiencing a difficult mother hood stage. She does not know what to do because of lust they enter into a very difficult struggle in life, very innocent in a mother hood life, she just look like an older sister to her siblings, very easy to get high temper, no patience, most of the time it leads to too much beating their children that leads into child abuse. But if you are in the right age, right temper, right decision, and right dispositions, you can enter into the world of mother hood.

As a housewife, it was a dream come true to me to have an organize and complete furniture and appliances in our house, how pleasing to the eyes if that happens. If I were to ask, there is a place where you can watch movie, a place for entertainment, a place where to rest and reminisce a, a bedroom which is for sleeping only, it does not have any television, I want a place for a laundry, I even want a big laundry place, so that I can wash clothes comfortable, a place where I can iron clothes after it has been dried, and arrange it. I also want a place for the kids where they can play, a place that is full of different types of toys. Especially in the kitchen, I want that there will be a dirty kitchen, a place where I can bake aside from cooking; I really want a big kitchen with complete cooking materials and appliance, because I really love to cook foods for my family. I also want to bake cakes for them. If you have an organize furniture nothing will be stolen or broken because you know where to find the things you might be needed and how to use everything.

If you have a big family you must be strict when it comes to house organizing, example, their clothes, let’s start with the laundry, you have to separate the underwear from the socks, shirt from skirts, pants and shorts and especially white from colored ones. I have six kids. God willing they will be having their own rooms but now only 3 of them have their separate rooms. I make sure to organize all their dresses or clothing, my youngest daughter had her own cabinet, she had an organize clothes; she knows where to get her skirt, her panties, her socks, blouses, so that when she grow up she knows how to organize her things. If your house is organize it is very easy to see things, label the boxes and make sure that everyone in the house return things where they get it. All my kids know how to organize their clothes and other things, there is a place for everything, even the school supplies, or even the small things must be in order for not hard to find anything. If our house is organize, we feel comfortable, and it is easy to find what you need because, you know where it is, and it is on its proper place.

Since my husband go home from abroad with only small amount in our account because little by little we build our house, our second floor still need an improvement, even without many money to spend to it. It because as of now sine he go home, he is still jobless, we only have small business, which I cook food. We only took a small amount, every week we buy one sack of cement for the improvement of our house, now it already have three rooms in it, what we need is to improve it so that we can lease the rooms to have some income, because as of now I have four schooling kids. We need to have some income or rather good income in order to survive. Once in a while if we have money we do some improvement, sometimes my husband do it all by himself because he has little knowledge in laborer and sometimes we pay some tradesman to do the job, it was so hard to have some home improvement with only small amount to spend to it, you cannot do the design that you really want to do, what you do is to only finish it by all means.

I’d say this is a heap-big helping of significance. How much have we missed by not welcoming more through the back doors of our lives? We hurry our children through them to a hundred activities each year, but do we listen to what kids say as we grab the gear and go? How often do we delight in their animated personalities in the process? You and I provide food and clothing for our families, loading it by the sackful into our kitchens, disposing of the packaging in huge garbage containers outside the back door. All this hustle and bustle is inevitable in raising family, but how often do we perceive it as opportunity?
Next time you use any one of your multiple back doors, think about the reasons for the traffic in and out. If you have children or pets and creatures you tend at home, you may experience more chaos than serenity through your back door. Embrace it. Be thankful.
A back door is like comfort food or a pair of faded jeans. My back door screen gets ripped, and I let it be. The rickety steps below it will probably never be fixed. The thin line of white paint I dribbled across the window pane two years ago still smiles at me. Aside from an occasional bird hitting the glass to fall dazed on the deck, not much unexpected happens there. But on my grandparents’ farm, the back door was always used as the front door. It faced the chicken coop, the grain barn, the windmill, the machinery sheds, and the yard where Grandpa built a merry-go-round for his grandkids. It was outside this “back” door that homemade ice cream was cranked every summer Sunday afternoon. And just as soon as our 1954 Studebaker pulled into the driveway, Grandma appeared there smelling of wheat fields and lilac water.

Your home functions like small business, so it’s important to develop an office space that will help you manage your home in an organized way. You may need only a small area for record keeping and bill paying. If you conduct outside business from your home, you’ll need a larger area.
Where will this be? you ask. Consider a spare bedroom, a basement, even a closet. Computer armories that can hold a compact office, when closed, can blend with the decor of nearly any room without looking out of place. And the contents are completely hidden!
Some people don’t need a desk. They work fine at a table, when necessary, and can keep everything they need stored in one place in a box or filing system.
For any home office two tools are indispensable in cutting paper clutter—a computer arid a wastebasket. A filing system is nearly as important.
Well, you’ve done it. You’ve organized your home. Look around. Don’t you love it? Congratulations on a job well done!