I was up all night with baby and am extremely exhausted today. I have so much to do that I have to push on. That got me thinking. How did the women from the days of old do it?? Seriously. They would have had multiple little ones to care for and had much more physical labor than we. I can't image being up all night and then rising at probably 5:00am to get the breakfast on the table for the family. Clean that up...oh remember that is by fire. Then there is laundry, mending, teaching, chores. Then lunch time. Did she remember to kill & pluck the chicken? How long would that take anyway. Well lunch is now done. She is cleaning up again and probably clean the rest of the house. Then there is dinner to deal with, so sometime she had to get the meat and everything ready for that. I haven't even mentioned keeping the fire going, nursing babies, fixing scraped knees, and stepping in to fix an argument between siblings.
As far as I can see, the only advantage they had over us was, no phone ringing and not as many toys to pick up.
So, as I finish loading my dishwasher, switching a load of laundry, and taking the meat from the freezer to get a casserole ready for lunch in my gas oven while exhausted from lack of sleep....I shall not complain!!!
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