Tuesday, August 21, 2007
My House is a WRECK! - CONCLUSION
Shared in Cleaning and Organizing
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Mondays and Saturdays are always the busiest days of the week for me. Monday, I'm busy catching up on cleaning that was not done on Sunday. And Saturday is the day of preparation for the rest that comes on Sunday! Think how wonderful it will be to have a whole day off from your work! No laundry! No scrubbing! How? With a little foresight and planning, of course! Get out that notebook of yours! Create a loose schedule. You know the routine! Saturday, give everything you've done through the week a quick going-over. Vacuum and dust, if necessary. Make your Sunday meal, so you can just put it in the crock pot or the oven for a slow cook come tomorrow. Keeping busy for a couple hours on Saturday will give you a great reward come Sunday. After breakfast, move through your house systematically. Delegate jobs to each capable child, and get the smaller ones busy beside you. You would be surprised at how much they can do to help! And they will feel so important and useful, besides. My Saturdays usually look like this: MORNING ~Wake ~Take care of baby and put her back to sleep. ~Dress & move down the stairs with the littles in tow ~Get smaller 4 children breakfast ~Make sure littles are dressed and have their hair combed/braided (Olders are getting up at this time, and dressing/getting breakfast) ~One older child has kitchen duty, one has dining duty, and one is "floater", and is assigned to livingroom and middle room duty which frees me to... ~Clean upper hall ~Clean both bathrooms ~Clean the little boys' room and oversee the 6 year old's work in hers ~Clean the master room ~Fold & put away the last loads of laundry for the week All this before lunch! It feels fabulous to have the rest of the day free from cleaning! I like to put together Sunday's lunch while making Saturday's. It is a relief to get that out of the way. Sundays, I can go to church and come home to a house that smells delicious. The meal is cooked and ready to serve and I can relax when we return. It's a very lazy day. I have lots of time to read my Bible, enjoy my family and write letters! Having a clean house is a process. It happens bit by bit when you have a busy family to tend. But it can be done. Relax some of your standards and get regular on others. Enjoy your family while serving their needs for a safe, comfortable home! Routines are fun! Let them free you from the clutches of a house that screams chaos and disaster! |
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - Routines
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Shared by Thursday, August 23, 2007 - Tag!
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Shared by Rose 
