Ok really it was only 3 days - not even a full week. We survived waking up early but boy am I tired tonight. Overall I'd say it was a very successful first few days.
It's most definitely time to get back to Maintain It Monday, Tackle It Tuesday, etc., etc.
Although I'm not sure there is a need to post before & after pictures anymore. I mean really all you have to do is go look at previous Tackle It Tuesday pictures to get a pretty good idea about what certain areas of my house looks like.
The clutter may be picked up and the floors vacuumed throughout most of the house but much of that clutter is sitting in a basket in the corner of the office waiting to be sorted and discarded or put away. The insides of my cupboards are once again disorganized. Why does everything eventually return to a state of chaos?
My house is in need of a good spring cleaning!
Focusing on the positive for a minute my laundry is all clean and folded and my garage is clean. At least 2 areas of my house are in order (at least for the moment).
So for those who find amusement and feel better by seeing the skeletons in my closet check back next week for the before & hopefully fabulous after pictures as I work to recover from a summer of kids home all day everyday.
Showing posts with label Chores. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chores. Show all posts
Friday, August 13, 2010
Saturday, January 16, 2010
The Great Bedroom Debate
Not a whole lot of getting ready for Sunday around here. We started cleaning downstairs and then got sidetracked on the great bedroom debate.
5 kids + 3 bedrooms = LIFE IS NEVER FAIR.
Since life is never fair we seem to end up switching bedrooms about every 6 months in an attempt to make it a little fairer.
Someone always gets there own room, the younger kids make such big messes that the bigger kids don't want to share, the boys are too big to share a room with the girls. Brett refuses to be in any room but the brown room because the others have paint that is too "girlie" (pale green or peach). The whining, complaining and debating starts and of course the tears start flowing.
I refused to move all the beds around today so the options were limited. So today's solution - Brett is sharing the brown room with Bradley, Kim gets the peach room and Bryce gets the green room. Kylie the biggest mess maker of all got kicked out of all the rooms and consigned to the office (her bed currently consisting of a mattress thrown on the floor - and unbelievably she's the most excited of all of them).
Do you think it's time to repaint in some nice neutral colors?
By the time we got it all figured out I was exhausted so the kids stuff is only half put away and the downstairs looks ten times worse than we we started down there this morning.
It's a good thing there is no school on Monday - although I can here the whining and complaining already "It's a Holiday - We Shouldn't have to work!"
5 kids + 3 bedrooms = LIFE IS NEVER FAIR.
Since life is never fair we seem to end up switching bedrooms about every 6 months in an attempt to make it a little fairer.
Someone always gets there own room, the younger kids make such big messes that the bigger kids don't want to share, the boys are too big to share a room with the girls. Brett refuses to be in any room but the brown room because the others have paint that is too "girlie" (pale green or peach). The whining, complaining and debating starts and of course the tears start flowing.
I refused to move all the beds around today so the options were limited. So today's solution - Brett is sharing the brown room with Bradley, Kim gets the peach room and Bryce gets the green room. Kylie the biggest mess maker of all got kicked out of all the rooms and consigned to the office (her bed currently consisting of a mattress thrown on the floor - and unbelievably she's the most excited of all of them).
Do you think it's time to repaint in some nice neutral colors?
By the time we got it all figured out I was exhausted so the kids stuff is only half put away and the downstairs looks ten times worse than we we started down there this morning.
It's a good thing there is no school on Monday - although I can here the whining and complaining already "It's a Holiday - We Shouldn't have to work!"
Sunday, May 24, 2009
If all else fails go with Old School
So tell me this is not completely old school. Despite all the technology that's out there I made an old fashioned FHE wheel. I searched forever online but couldn't find a Family Home Evening Chart to print from the internet that had 7 jobs for 7 family members so I made my own. Of course there are all the cutesy ones you can make at enrichment but in case anyone hasn't figured it out I'm not an artsy-fartsy kind of person!I also made a job jar that contains extra jobs for children who complain, whine, fight, tease, disobey, slack, or otherwise annoy me! I guess ideally the jobs will never get done because the kids will all get along and be angels all summer and listen and not fight but reality is I'll probably have really clean walls, baseboards, light fixtures, etc.
We had a family council today and set up all the rules & chores for summer such as no media until after noon, Monday is family day with no friends, chores charts & rotations, etc. The kids were really good sports and survived hearing all the stuff no kids likes to hear: You have extra chores during the summer, you only get 2 hours of media a day, you do have a bedtime during the summer and guess what it's the same as during the school year, etc. I guess it always helps to bribe them with treats once we get through: ice cream, popsicle, candy bar or strawberry shortcake: thats some good motivation to take part in a family council!
We'll see how long we can keep at a routine and schedule this summer. I'm actually amazed that we've made it 16 weeks on the chore chart system we have been using and we haven't fizzled out. That's pretty good for us.
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