A Mother’s Journal

Well, it’s Monday for me anyway.  I have been off work for a couple of days and today is my Monday.  It’s a fine thing to have days off in the middle of the week.  The stores are not as crowded.  It’s pretty easy to run errands.  But Thursday is my Monday, and I have those Monday blues!  Even if it’s Thursday for the rest of you!

I have been thinking about this post right here.  I meant what I said about not spending entire days cleaning, but I do love a clean house.  I really do.  I cannot sit down with a cup of hot tea and a magazine and enjoy myself if everything around me is messy and there’s dirt on the floors and the bathrooms are a total yucky mess.  So what’s a girl to do???!!!

I have made a cleaning schedule for myself that I hope will help.  My goal is to do a spot check of each room in the house every morning and spend no more than a minute or two straightening key disaster areas.  I will also spray down the bathrooms and quick wipe surfaces to keep the bathrooms clean.

The law has been laid down for the children that I want to enjoy my days off so they BETTER keep things straight. 

As far as intensive cleaning.  I will do certain rooms on certain days:

• Monday:  Husband’s bathroom, my bathroom, master bedroom
• Tuesday:  Kitchen, pantry, hallway
• Wednesday:  Living room, den
• Thursday:  Upstairs bedroom 1, children’s bathroom
• Friday:  Upstairs bedroom 3, mudroom, office
• Saturday:  Upstairs bedroom 2, front porch, yard

That is when I will do my 15 (okay, maybe 30) minutes of intense cleaning and decluttering.

I am really, really going to try and stick to this.  I worked on some projects yesterday.  I framed some old photos and hung up a beautiful baby sweater I found out antique store and thrift store shopping.  It has a quilted look.  Don’t ask me why I am hanging baby clothes up for decoration.  I don’t know, except that it just warms my heart to see them hanging around!

Happy Thursday!