Hmmmm. I think I need to redefine what normal is around here. It may take me awhile.
Yesterday and today were designated "Wash and Sort the Tablecloths Days". All thirty of them. I am now a self-proclaimed expert at folding 70-inch round tablecloths. It ain't easy.
Yesterday, I also made a round trip of about 80 miles, returning rental plates, water pitchers, a cake stand, and tons of serving dishes to their corresponding origins.
Of course, in between the laundry loads and errand-running, activities of daily living pull at my attention. Occupational therapists refer to them as ADL's. I refer to them as the blessedness of routine.
If I didn't, they would just annoy me. Instead, I remind myself of a series of talks I heard several years ago, describing the "routineness" of God's created order. The sun rises, the sun sets. The seasons come and go. Flowers bloom and die. On and on it goes. The blessedness of routine.
God is good..........all the time.
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Sounds like a series I heard at camp one year. And then Trinity Fest the same year carried it even further. I've never thought of things the same way since. I'm glad I learned it because there's rest in it when you can live it out day by day.
I am now the tablecloth person at church. We just purchased thirty tablecloths. I know how much work you've just put in. But I love cleaning up the aftermath because it means something wonderful and important has happened. And then everything is ready for the next wonderful and important thing.
And how did you fold your round cloths? I'm trying to find the way that will crease the least
@Good_Thing - I was saving your comment in my inbox, because I really DO want to let you know how I folded those tablecloths. Anyways, I laid them out flat on the floor and folded them in thirds. Then I folded one end down to the other and then folded it again the same direction. You could also hang them on pants hangers after folding them in thirds, if you had a place to hang them. If that didn't make sense to you, let me know. Maybe I could demonstrate with photos.
That does make sense to me - thanks for letting me know. I have seven huge buffet tablecloths that fall to the floor as well and I fold the one I take for the communion table each week this way. I hadn't thought to use this method on the round cloths. So far I've folded them into pie shapes. After lots of thinking, I realized pant hangers would work to store them all. And hangers will fit easily into a closet - I've got a couple of empty ones these days.