Your master bedroom is your place for peace and calm. It’s where you sleep. It shouldn’t be a storage place for laundry that needs to be folded. It shouldn’t be the catch all for stuff that needs a home. It should be happy, joyful, and restful. Let’s spend this week decluttering and detail cleaning, so our bedrooms are our sanctuaries. If you have children at home, give them daily missions for their bedrooms, too. If you get it detail cleaned this week it is very easy to maintain until next month when we come back through the zones. If you want to do a big closet project, please spread it out over several days. Don’t empty your closet in an attempt to organize it. Just work in a small section at a time each day for 5 to 15 minutes. A the season is changing, pull out any of your warm-weather clothes that you did not wear and put them in your donate bin. If you have clothes that don’t fit, pull them out as well. Don’t be a clothes hoarder.
We are practicing our Before Bed Routine for September. If you do not have a solid before bed routine, use the list below to help you get started. I start mine right after dinner each night.
Thursday-Declutter Folded Clothes
Menu Plan for Monday – Grilled Hamburgers and Side Salad (buns for the boys, and lettuce bun for mom)
Weekly Home Blessing – Wash the Sheets
- Make Your Bed (Do this as soon as you get up.)
- Get Dressed Down to Your Shoes
- Swish and Swipe
- Start Your Laundry
- Decide on Dinner
- Check Your Calendar
- Start the Day off with a Shiny Sink. Don’t leave the breakfast dishes sitting.
School: What are you reading as a family? Pick a book, if you don’t have one started. We are reading a biography about Abraham Lincoln.
Afternoon Routine:
- Eat Lunch
- Clear off One Hot Spot
- Reboot the Laundry
- Declutter for 15 Minutes (Be sure to have your children declutter, too.)
- Drink Your Water