Made bed.
Emptied dishwasher.
Swept kitchen.
Mopped kitchen (Thursday’s job)
Cleaned up kitchen.
Did a pickup (not as focused as yesterday)
Hung up some clothes in master bedroom.
Last night I:
Put out clothes.
Made lunches.
Cleaned up kitchen and ran dishwasher.
I’m feeling that “swept along” feeling I get on a busy day. Things are normally busy on Wednesdays, but when you add a few extras in, even good extras, I start to feel like I’m moving along through the day without actually being in control of where I’m going or how fast I’m moving. On […]
Read MoreIt has now been 5 ½ weeks since we started using this chore chart with my 6 and 8 year old children, both boys. If you are a regular reader, you know how much chore charts/checklists for my kids scared me. It wasn’t that I didn’t think my kids could do it. It wasn’t that […]
Read MoreI’ve been meaning to make hummus for quite a while, but kept forgetting to get pita bread to go with it. When I saw that we had an opened box of Wheat Thins that needed to be eaten, I decided today was as good a time as any. And since the food processor is now […]
Read MoreI’m generally home on Mondays. Generally. Translated – Usually. Most often. Probably. Should be. So, if you ask me if I can guarantee that I’ll be home on Monday, I’ll have to say “No, I can’t guarantee it.” But if you ask me if I can guarantee that after one week, will there be at […]
Read MoreI didn’t menu plan last week. Ironically, it was because I spent Monday working on eliminating the clutter corner in our office/gameroom and writing up the post about it for orgjunkie.com. And of course . . . I regretted it. Does anyone else find themselves checking their own blog to see what’s for supper that […]
Read MoreI’m joining in at Elizabeth Esther’s Saturday Evening Blog Post where bloggers are linking up their favorite post from February. I chose “All Housekeeping Points Expire at Midnight” because it pretty much explains so much of my slob-problem. Go check out the blog party over at Elizabeth Esther’s blog. It’s a great chance to get […]
Read MoreFebruary flew by. When I realized a few minutes ago that I hadn’t written a post about my February decluttering progress to link up at Amy’s Finer Things, I clicked on my decluttering tab at the bottom of the page, only to verify that I haven’t done as much in the past month as I […]
Read MoreI have such a long way to go in this journey. My house is looking tons better overall, but I am still so quick to ditch the daily habits that make the difference between continuing the improvement and sliding back down into chaos. The past three days have been crazy. A very painful ear infection […]
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