Cinderella

Poor Cinderella. She had such a wicked mother and her sisters were just horrid. How did she turn out so well? Any child treated so badly would be unattached, unlovable, and just as horrid as her step sisters (I may touch on this in detail next month). Well, since it is a fairy tale we will cut her some slack, and take from Cinderella's story some wonderful lessons to be gleaned. First of all her hands were hardly ever idle. The step sisters, however, never did anything but lay around and bark orders. They had ugly souls to match their ugly faces. Can we say "entitlement"?This is what happens to our young girls when responsibility is not taught. Idleness never leads to anything good. Idle hands lead to folly (it is a Proverb somewhere). Well, Little Miss Cinder...I mean Charlotte...has had some idleness going on lately. I took a lesson from Cinderella, and we went to work. Unlike Cinderella, we change out of our floor scrubbing clothes, but we do keep working....
Also unlike Cinderella, Charlotte has a Mommy who worked right along with her. We accomplished much this morning and there was no "folly" to speak of! Everything is sparkly clean and smells wonderful!!

I miss having clothes lines, but I make do ;) Fresh clean floors and rugs!!! Nothing feels better!
Our castle is clean, dinner is cooking and the hands in our castle are not idle. Folly will no longer reign in our kingdom!!!!!