Now that my horrible, terrible, very bad kitchen is clean(ish), I'm determined to get this menu plan done. Somehow, the kitchen is easier to clean when I have a planned menu. I'm not sure how that works, other than that maybe I don't pull things out as a part of an idea to make something, and then leave them out when I realize that I don't have the … [Read more...]
Watching Clutter Happen
My house looks like summer. Not in the fresh-flowers-on-the-dining-table way, but in the flip-flops-everywhere-and-random-junk-piling-up-from-lack-of-routine way.And I'm watching it happen.Sometimes I'm not aware of the clutter happening, but right now I feel very aware. I may not have purposely put it there, but I have purposely left it there. I … [Read more...]
Saving Money and Preventing Dizziness at Amusement Parks
This has nothing to do with being a slob or my deslobification progress. But hey, I have a blog and so I get to write what I want! A few tips I want to share after our fun trip to Six Flags yesterday: First, a frugal one. We do our best to spend as little money as possible on the overpriced food at amusement parks. However, a few years ago, … [Read more...]
Focus Check Friday
Really? Again? Friday? Zowie, focus is difficult in the summer. I've had a bad case of the donwannas, but thankfully, the thing that has helped is . . . focus. Having an overall desire to help my kids learn 1) what cleaning is, and 2) that it has to be done consistently, has helped me stay on track. My focus for next week? Ummmm . . . VBS. … [Read more...]
The Power of External Motivation
We're headed for Six Flags today!!! And I . . . . feel completely justified treating it as a play day, no menial tasks, much less big tasks, required. However, there was chicken in the fridge. Chicken I purchased on Saturday . . . and it's now Thursday. Chicken that says "sell by June 18th" and could start stinking … [Read more...]
Meeting Resistance . . . From Myself
Today has been a nice summer day. We're planning to go to Six Flags tomorrow, so the plan for the week was to go ahead and get mopping and vacuuming done today. Buuutttt, this morning was so pleasant. We had great breakfast conversation, then the kids were off playing, totally occupied, and I was enjoying cleaning up the kitchen on my own. … [Read more...]
Cut the Creep – Introducing a New Non-Negotiable Task
I'm in Summer Survival Mode. I'm keeping my kitchen clean and doing the weekly tasks. But the clutter is creeping. It's especially bad in the office. The office/game room is such a fabulous room, perfect for all odds-and-ends. It's the guestroom, the Wii station, the computer room, the shoe storage/mudroom, the place where a girl can store … [Read more...]
Daily Checklist? Oh, yeah, that.
7 kids. We thought we wore them out swimming in our small-town-still-has-a-high-dive-pool. We thought that with all of the running around and screaming they'd go right to sleep.We thought that after staying up talking (loudly) for hours after being put to bed, they'd sleep past 6:30 a.m.We were so wrong. But everyone had fun. I'm exhausted though, … [Read more...]
My Drastic Clothing Reduction Experiment – Week One Report
My kids have officially survived week one of our summer experiment. I decided in the last week of school to put away all but one week's worth of clothing for them. I could be imagining it, as I tend to do that, but my laundry load seemed smaller today. However, my 6yo had no clothes to wear today until the laundry was done. This has been the … [Read more...]
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