Many Hands~ 3in30 Week 2

I have always been a cleaner. My parents never once told me to clean my room, I did it on my own. I cleaned the rest of the house too. Then I had children, and kept up with cleaning very well until baby #5. Then #6. Then we decided to take the kids out of public school.

I would have never been featured on a show about clutter, but I was not happy. I like a sparkly clean house.

Homeschooling and researching homeschooling have kind of taken over my life. I have my support for homeschooling online as well, so I find myself in books and on the computer a lot.

With the new year, and B90Days back, I decided I needed to grab ahold of my schedule and goals, so everything would get done. One of my 3in30 goals for January was a chore chart.

The goals~

• Make a chore chart, and stick to it.~Progress in this post.
• Relax learning in our homeschool. ~Started Unit Study approach this week.
• Be more prayerful. ~Doing very well. I start each day in prayer, and pray several more times a day.

Last week I polled the kids to find out what their favorite chores were, and then made up a schedule.

It doesn’t have times, but is in order of appearance. Most need done after school, and dinner.

Then I took it a step further, since the ball was rolling, and moved to personal accountability. I don’t like a chart for me, as I move all over the house all day. I wanted something portable. A friend shared this idea from ConvenientlySimplistic. I then went over to FlyLady to see some already thought up chore lists, as I wanted to make this fast.

Here is my “box”.

I know about the typo, lol, I replaced that card.   The master Zone list reminds me of what Zone to look for on “Zone Day”.

This is my weekly schedule. I have it in the lid so I can quickly see my goals for the week.

Here are a few of Monday’s chores.

One of my Zone cards.

 

This is where I am going to put important dates for card mailing, which I will do on Wednesdays, and less frequent chores best done in that month.

Here is my daily pack of things to do. In this stack is a card that says to do my Zone, or chores for the day.

Before bed checklist.

The family really digs in each evening to make the house tidy and vacuumed before our devotional. It makes for a peaceful time, and a great way to wake up!

The system is really working for us, and I feel very calm and accomplished. How are your goals coming along?