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•5:20 AM
•3:30 PM
•9:13 PM
- Finish going through baby clothes
- Finish Final – YAY! Finished paper!
- Clean closet – 5 minutes per day
- Finish boys room
- Finish 2 scrapbooking pages
- Fill out addresses for Thank you notes
- Be in my room, ready for bed by 10:30 every night
We start back to school again tomorrow. We are on track to have a good day, I just need to make sure that I get to bed on time so that I can wake up in the morning. I finally finished writing my paper and sent that off. I just have to finish the final and I will be done with this class. I don’t think I’m going to take any more any time soon with the baby coming.
I want to continue in my closet and finish up in the boys room that was half done so now it looks like a tornado went through it. In fact, I need to make a path in case someone wakes up in the night and falls down!
I have a secret goal of scrapbooking all of my printed pictures this year. I am afraid to say it is a goal in case it is impossible! :) But I am taking it a day at a time.
I also would like to post our current eating plan because I really like it, it’s based on a diet that the author of my textbook put together and it works well for our family. It’s called the Ideal Diet, but I will go into it later. Right now, I am off to cut oranges for our mornings breakfast!
Those are my goals for the week, what are yours?
I have printed the daily goals, let’s see how it goes!
•9:03 AM
My cousin over at Habitual Impracticality has opened a discussion about laundry and what works for everyone. We do laundry on Mondays when we are on schedule and our routines are intact.
Here is our cleaning schedule.
Daily Chores:
- Pick up rooms
- Pick up bathrooms
- Kitchen counters, dishes, etc.
- The kids each have living room, bathroom and dining room chores everyday to keep everything pick up and in order. For example, Katie Ann’s daily chores in January might go like this:
- Bedroom: pick up
- Bathroom: clean & wipe counter
- Living Room: put away everything on tables and flat surfaces
- Dining room: Clean under table.
Weekly Chores - Heavy cleaning in each room:
Monday: Laundry – wash, fold, put away all laundry
Tuesday: Kitchen Day – heavy cleaning in the kitchen and dining room.
Wednesday: Office & Living room – Clear paper, clutter, dust, vacuum, mirrors, etc.
Thursday: Bathrooms – heavy cleaning in bathrooms, sometimes I rotate showers.
Friday: Bedrooms – ALL the way clean! Dust, vacuum, etc.
At various times I have been more organized and have different jobs in each room for each kid on different days so that they are not doing the same thing all the time. This also works really well. The other thing that I like to have is a before meal and after meal chore schedule. That way I can say do your after dinner chores instead of calling out to each one with each job over and over.
The other reason I like to have the kids have everything spelled out and clear is so that things keep moving even if I am sick or if I’ve just had a baby. I just tell everyone to do their chores and the main living areas are at least picked up.
I have found that, without fail, this all goes fabulously when no one is coming over and each and every time someone has just stopped by it has been during a time when our routines are off. Isn’t that the way it always is though?!
•10:53 PM
Monday’s Goals:
We’re re arranging rooms around here. We will have 8 people in our 3 bedroom house so we’re being creative. It’s working out just fine. We got a lot of bags of baby girl clothes from my sister in law and Katie Ann and I went through them today. We had SO much fun! There are cute little pink outfits in the dryer right now.
Good night.
