laundry just keeps piling up and don't get me started on the dishes

one of my goals this year was to domesticate. It's going pretty well, the beds get made every day, there's a nutritious meal made most days that will last us for at least an extra day, I'm baking bread, and the bathroom is cleaned weekly with the shower mat thrown into the laundry at the beginning of the week. We have plans for our first garden, actually we have plans for planning our first garden, tomatoes, potatoes and peas(to help feed the soil) for sure with an assortment of herbs and a selection of berries.

I could go on to say that I've embraced the whole housewife lifestyle glorying in the act of taking care of my family but I won't. On a level there is that whole satisfaction but really it's to get me organized in my mind other wise I'm adrift wandering around with no set schedule. If I get the beds made first thing I feel like I've accomplished something, If the coffee grounds make it into the compost bucket (Oh yeah, we started reducing the amount of waste leaving our house too) then I feel like I'm not being lazy, if I can do a load of laundry a day folding and putting away the load for the day before I don't feel so swamped....

but the laundry; Do I even have to say it? It's always there. there is no end to it. There are days when I feel like Sisyphus in a never ending loop of clean the laundry fold the laundry put it away and just when I feel like it's almost over... well will you look at that? the laundry bin has gone and filled itself up again...

As the title of this post so aptly states Don't even get me started on the dishes... In most cases I've already started them and washed and dried a few sinks full. I can't tell you how much I miss having a dishwasher.

boy do I feel better now...

I'll be

It happens every year around this time and I've made mention of it before, the whole making plans for a new year and starting something new. I have a short list of about five things I want to do this year and while I plan on writing about these things I just want to spread them out a bit.
One thing that I'm really looking forward to is doing some more baking this year. We visited the downtown library on Sunday and I took some time in the cookbook aisles, grabbing a few books on breads. I'll be making my first loafs this weekend if not sooner. I can taste the fresh from the oven smothered in melting butter now...

Anyone out there make bread themselves? Do you have any useful tips? Want to share a recipe for a nice crusty loaf? I'm open to suggestions especially tried and true tasty ones.