Getting Organized:
In your home and homeschool
How are you doing with your Zone Missions this week? Even if you have not done them all, you can start today with this one. Today, let’s declutter the Dining Room Table. Most of us do not use the dining table on a daily basis, and it tends to collect clutter. So we are doing to tackle the clutter on top of the Dining Room Table and then put on a nice table cloth. If you have a centerpiece, put it out, too. If not, just put a candle on the table. Make it pretty, so you think twice about putting clutter on the table again. If you have china that you like to see, then set your table with it. It doesn’t have to stay put away or in the china cabinet. Get it out and enjoy it. When you see your Dining Room Table, I want you to smile and enjoy it. If you do not have a formal dining room and dining table, then set your kitchen table with a tablecloth and put out your pretty dishes and use them for dinner tonight.
Afternoon Routine:
Zone Mission: Dining Room – Declutter and Decorate the Dining Table (or Kitchen Table)
Grocery Shopping and Errand Day – Take your list, pack snacks, and water bottles.
Home:
- 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: Are you doing a read aloud book for the whole family? If not, pick one out and read at lunch time or in the evening. It will bring a new dimension to your school day.
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
- Errand day: Make your plan for grocery shopping and errands. Pack water bottles and snacks for everyone. Pack up your library books that need to be turned in.
Family Fun: Plan a fun activity while you are out. I am in the habit of checking for free activities that are going on while we are out doing errands.
When you get home from doing errands, have everyone work together to unload and put away everything.
Before Bed: (This starts right after dinner.)
- Check the Calendar for Tomorrow
- Lay out Your Clothes for Tomorrow (Have your children lay their clothes out, too.)
- Put things at the Launch Pad that you will need first thing in the morning
- Shine Your Sink
- Clean Off a Hot Spot
- Go to Bed at Decent Hour
