My {Weekly Home Blessing}

I don’t know about you, but I often get really overwhelmed with the house chores and let them pile up so badly that it literally puts my into a state of depression. It’s not pretty.

Over the years I have found that when my house is clean and tidy…I’m a happier person to be around. Don’t get me wrong…we don’t live like animals. The house is always tidy clean-ish. We do a lot of entertaining and I want my guests to feel at home in a clutter-free, clean smelling home. I just needed to find a better way to stay on top of things so that I’m not a stress case. So…we’ve decided to hire a housekeeper to come once a month to do the heavy cleaning. I personally feel that $75 once a month is vital to my sanity. Yes, I am a stay at home mom, but I also run a small business and take care of a child with autism and I just don’t have the time to clean windows and behind couches and fridges.

However I do have the time to clean a little each day and maintain that “I just had my house deep-cleaned” feel!

How do I do it? I created a “Weekly Home Blessing” chart. It has a list of the chores for each day, the meal, plan, the activities we are involved in that week and it is working out GREAT! My chores take maybe 1-1.5 hours each day. Totally doable.

And guess what??? You can get in on the Home Blessing too because I have made my chart a printable. Just click on the hyperlink or the actual chart to print your own. You can save it to your desktop and print one out at the beginning of each week.

 

Weekly Home Blessing

I hope you enjoy this chart! Happy Cleaning :)

The start of a new project.

The new year makes me want to have everything tidy and clean and organized and nicely decorated. Anyone else crazy like me? To feed my OCD tendencies I am going to do a room by room purging, cleaning, and even redecorate a bit. I have lots of fun craft projects planned! I have estimated this endeavor to take 7-8 weeks. Let's hope I'm right! I am starting this week with our living room.

I know it looks tidy but now, but if you could see the insides of all those drawers…you would shame me. The game plan : De-clutter, and CLEAN. I am making some covers for the throw pillows, and doing a pretty big fireplace makeover. I also want to make two more quilts…they are easy patterns. I am hoping the living room comes easily together this week so I can show you the room again next week all spruced up! Happy Tuesday friends :)

Time for a little Spring Cleaning…

Last year I followed the Spring Cleaning Party from Simple Mom and got the house in ship shape from top to bottom. I tried to be really good about staying on top of clutter all year so this time around I am just focusing on areas that have gotten a little hectic. Like my son’s room for example

Not a big room and WAY to much stuff. In our busyness it had gotten neglected and even he was saying “Mommy, my room is messy!”…I knew it was time to drop everything else and get in there. Here is before…

And after 3 1/2 hours of decluttering and rearranging (sorry for the bad lighting, but you get the idea!)…