I do my best thinking in the shower.  Yup, right there in the hot water and the quiet.  I think that is the key…quiet.   With two young kids running around and having screaming as a favorite pastime I rarely have a quiet moment during the day.

The reason that I mention it is because for a few weeks I had been pondering a way to get my house more in order and what I would have to do to get it that way. You see, my house, I am sad to say, is in complete chaos; I can never have anyone over on a “whim.” Often I look at it and become totally overwhelmed with what needs to happen that I decide to go out and look around instead of staying home and working in the mess.) So one day I am in the shower, remember where I do my thinking, and the way to keep my house clean came to me. Surely this is a message from heaven.

First, I need to do some house cleaning almost every day.  I hate this “revelation”, but it is true. I do not want to spend all day cleaning because to get my kids to nap I have to drive them in the car, this way I also get to shop in peace while they are sleeping in the double stroller.  I took the number of rooms in my house and divided them by the number of days that I wanted to clean.  It goes something like this.  I have 3 bathrooms, 3 bedrooms (my husbands office is the 4th, but I refuse to clean that), a kitchen/dinning room and a living room/craft area. Now, let’s say that I want to clean just 5 days a week (this doesn’t include the dishes that “should” be done everyday) and have off the weekends.  So now I decide what day to do what.  Now to get this to work I have to do the cleaning before I reward myself by going out.  So now my schedule of house cleaning looks something like this:

Mondays:  Laundry and the three bathrooms

Tuesdays: The Kids bedrooms

Wednesdays: The Living Room/craft area

Thursdays: The Kitchen

Fridays: The master bedroom

Now, I haven’t really put this plan into total action yet, but I think that it will really work for me.  My oldest daughter starts school this week and I am hoping that since I will be up and ready earlier that I will then start this plan in to motion.  That is after I go through each room and get rid of the things that I don’t need or ware or use anymore.  I now that if I follow through with this plan that it can really work for me.  I believe that is what everyone needs a plan that works for them.  I hope that this plan will work for others of you out there too.

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