Zone Cleaning in the Kitchen – Getting Organized

Getting Organized:
In your home and homeschool

 

Happy Monday! I hope you had a wonderful weekend! I can remember the years when Monday was one of my hardest days of the week. When the children were all little, it seemed harder to get all of the weekly routines going on Monday morning. With persistence and rewards, it got better over time. Now, I enjoy Monday morning. If you struggle with routines on Monday mornings, try to decide why that is happening. For me, it was because we did not have the children pick up properly on Sunday after they played with their toys, so we had a lot of picking up to do on Monday mornings before our Weekly Home Blessing Hour could get started. I also had two large loads of laundry on Mondays plus bedding, so I moved some of the bedding to other days of the week. I also started a load on Sunday night, so it was ready to move to the dryer on Monday morning. That helped, too.

If you have not filed your taxes, start collecting information this week and set your appointment to get your taxes filled out. April 15 will be here before you know it.

Here are your Zone Missions for the week for  

Zone 2 – The Kitchen

Monday – Hot Spots & Kitchen Counters
Tuesday – Declutter 1 Cabinet
Wednesday – Declutter 1 Drawer
Thursday – Declutter Under the Kitchen Sink
Friday – Clean out Refrigerator & Microwave

 
I will be speaking at the Teach Them Diligently Conference in Nashville, TN, March 17-19, 2016. If you are in the area, please sign up and attend. I would love to meet some of my readers. I will also be at the other two Teach Them Diligently events in Atlanta, GA, and Sandusky, OH. In June, I will be speaking at the North Carolinians for Home Education conference in Winston-Salem, NC. You can read more about these events on the Events Page on my website. 
 
 

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Home – Morning Routine:
  • 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.
Weekly Home Blessing Hour:
Spread these out over the course of the week. Put a note on each day of the week with one or two of these per day.

7 Parts of the Weekly Home Blessing Hour from The FlyLady:

  • Quick Dust
  • Sweep/Mop
  • Purge Magazines or Paper Clutter
  • Change Bedding
  • Empty Trash
  • Clean Windows/Mirrors
  • Vacuum
 School:
  • Plan one fun activity for this week.
 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
Family Fun: Have some outdoor time with your children today. Play. Do some nature journaling. The point is to add some movement to your day.
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.)
  • Lay anything out that you will need first thing in the morning
  • Shine Your Sink
  • Clean Off a Hot Spot
  • Go to Bed at Decent Hour

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About Tami

Tami Fox is a homeschool mom of 6, who in age from 26 to 11. She and her husband have homeschooled for 17 years and have graduated three of their children from their homeschool. They are currently homeschooling 3 boys who are in grades 11, 9, and 6. They use hands-on learning and unit studies to ignite the fire of learning in their children. Tami is a homeschool author and conference speaker. You can contact her by email at Tami@TamiFox.com. Buy her book, Giving Your Children Wings at https://tamifox.net/giving-your-children-wings/.

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