"10 things" support thread
 

We decided to start a support thread for mamas who read this link and got excited about the simple changes to make a home run more smoothly.

http://thestressedmom.com/2012/03/10...well-run-home/

Feel free to share which things you did today, which things you want to do tomorrow, and anything else that helps you! You can go to the link for the full thing, but I just made a list of the 10 things that are suggested.


1. Wake up early

2. Go to bed early

3. Evening Preparations

4. Meal planning

5. 1 load of laundry per day~ Start to finish

6. Dishes done each evening

7. 5 minute bathroom cleaning

8. Have a place for everything

9. Have a bedtime routine of cleaning up

10. Don't say "yes" immediately to new requests

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I made it! :woohoo Thanks for the thread ;)

I did evening prep last night of my lunch and bottles for baby P. Also tucked dishes into dishwasher so sink was clean and stove was bare (put up leftovers, etc).

I need the most work in having a place for everything, but I'm moving soon so that should all fall into place at the new house :shrug3

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I hate meal planning so maybe meal-planning therapy here...

Our normal monthly laundry list for family of 4 looks like this:

From January:

bedsheets - 5x (2x our, 1x T's, 2x guest)
Joseph nappies+clothes - 10x
my dark SAHM wear+J's Tshirts - 2x
T's clothes - 3x
J's work shirts + light tops - 3x
slings - 1x
underwear - 2x
towels - 2x
cleaning rags - 1x (washed at 60C) - this family doesn't have paper towels

Drying function used: once
Number of days not doing laundry: 3

T is my DS1, J is my DH

So only 29 loads. The following months were typical too.

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Lets talk about evening preparations specifically.

What does this look like?

I'm not really able to think beyond setting the coffee pot and getting clothes together for the next day. What else could/should be involved in this?

It might be helpful to me to load the washer every night so I can start it first thing in the morning. I'm already a morning person. :think

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I don't do evening preparations except on the weekends, because I'm mostly a SAHM with no kids in school. On Friday nights, I try to lay out my work clothes for Saturday morning, and get my breast pump parts all together by the back door. Saturday nights, we TRY to get Sunday morning things pulled together so it's not such a mad dash after we oversleep. :P~

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re: evening preparations -

I WOH M-F so the stuff I'd be scrambling for in the mornings would be - pump parts, lunch & breakfast, work clothes, kids clothes, bottles for baby P.

For my work clothes I get them ready Sunday night (at the latest) so I only need to grab them out of the closet each morning. I keep a planner of what I wear to work (yup, I'm crazy like that - this is probably the thing I'm most organized about) so I consult that to see what's next in the rotation. I've also added kids clothes to my notes so it would make sense for me to get their clothes ready then, too...but it just now "hit me" :doh

I was in a weight loss group for work (weigh out was today, that's why I say "was") so I'd been preparing sweet potatoes and chicken thighs/tenderloins on the weekend and packing them for my breakfast (I try to eat paleo). Lunch is soup (can from Aldi) and salad - so I do need to rinse lettuce and slice to package in bowl.

I rinse pump parts immediately after pumping but need clean collection bottles, so I try to have them washed and either on drying rack or waiting in freezer bag.

If enough milk is in the fridge and bottles/nipples are clean I make bottles in the evening so I can "grab and go" in the AM. I did get some additional bottles and nipples from a friend so I need to wash those up this weekend so I can make like 2 days of bottles at a time :yes

Getting up early? That 4:30am alarm (supposed to be for me to get up and pump) seems to get earlier and earlier. We're moving further away from work though so I'll HAVE to get up earlier to get everything done...it's gonna be painful though :cry

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Subbing. I might do like I'm doing on our health journey and make one change per month.

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Look! A bandwagon! *jumps on*

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Maybe I can do this. Except for the laundry :hissy. I have to use the laundry mat :td

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I'll join. My two habits to work on, are going to bed early and waking early. We're not really late sleepers as it is, but I'm going to try to get up when DH leaves for work at 6:15. My only problem is my kids have mom radar, and they get up whenever I get up. So it will take some time to get them used to staying asleep.

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1. Wake up early: I did it! I was up at 6:15, which ended up being only thirty minutes before Pugsley woke up, but eating something without stopping a dozen times was good. It was hard to do because of #2...

2. Go to bed early: I had every intention, but then DH and I had an argument that lasted until after midnight. :yawn We'll try again tonight.

3. Evening Preparations: I did get clothing ready for the next day, and prepped breakfast.

4. Meal planning: This is something I ordinarily do, and tonight is going to be a quick meal because the realtor is coming this afternoon.

5. 1 load of laundry per day~ Start to finish: In progress!

6. Dishes done each evening: Did it last night. This is also one I like to usually do, as dishes in the sink first thing in the AM screw me up something fierce.

7. 5 minute bathroom cleaning:

8. Have a place for everything

9. Have a bedtime routine of cleaning up

10. Don't say "yes" immediately to new requests

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I am struggling with laundry. I do a load a day (where is that virtuous smiley?)...but it just piles up in 2 laundry baskets my bedroom door practically until the dressers are empty...and then I put it away it takes about 45min every couple of weeks (I am saving a lot of time technically :grin). But I really want to address this because it lends to my feeling behind which increases my stress levels. I hate sorting laundry. :scratch I tunic because of my little "helpers"... they mean well, but nothing stays folded (or i refold the same thing several times :doh) or sorted with them around. I cant really think of a way to do it with out their help...hence the giant towers of laundry all.the.time. laundry sorting usually ends with my yelling ag someone :bag or with some on racing up on the bed and gleefully rolling around(coughajcough) I have tried to give them a pile on the side to sort...but apparently that isn't good enough. The thought of this daily exercise in futility sounds awful. I could use help / suggestions there.:think

The othernhabit Evening prep: I thought as a SAHM I didnt need to think about this...but we do make changes here. Our kids get up at around 6 daily...dh has to leave for work by 7:30...since I am home with them 11 hours a day and dh only gets an hour in the evening w the kiddies..he gets up w them and gets them a snack and usually has time to cook up some oatmeal or reheat some rice for them. but if the kids sleep until 6-7 he is rushed and running late.

evening prep:
cofffee in maker set to timer.
hard boiling eggs for me and dd2 so he doesn't have scramble them every morning (he makes me food too most mornings :shifty :heart if I don't get a shot of protein first thing I am a bear :bag)
baked oatmeal or baked pancake batter (sans baking powder) in fridge the night before so all he has to do is pop stuff in the oven.those things would make his morning go more smoothly.also unloading the dishwasher after dinner and starting to load it again so that is ready...as of right now the unloading and catch up is about 20 min of my morning routine (while I eat my cold scrambled eggs...).

we already do a general pick up after the kids go to bed (I have a hard time relaxing when its a mess)

I think my biggest deterrent is that in the evenings I am tired. I want to do as little as possible after the kids are in bed. BUT the evening prep habit would benefit our family the most. :yes

perhaps I will clean out the one side of my closet and use that for the laundry piles. :idea :shifty

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1. Wake up early: I do...it is just filled w nursing so I can dive into the morning w a happy full baby ..or better, a still sleeping baby.

2. Go to bed early
dependent on Pip but often by 10.

3. Evening Preparations
my main focus
4. Meal planning
I have a list of 7 meals to choose from weekly

5. 1 load of laundry per day~ Start to finish
ugh

6. Dishes done each evening
...
7. 5 minute bathroom cleaning
yes...I take lysol:bag spay down toilet and sink and wipe b4 my shower

8. Have a place for everything
I am a t4 and infj...I am always coming up w better "places" but I am almost ocd-ishly organized.:O

9. Have a bedtime routine of cleaning up

working on this

10. Don't say "yes" immediately to new requests

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:cup this is something i can do!

1. Wake up early -- i do this already

2. Go to bed early -- i do NOT do this.

3. Evening Preparations -- for me, this looks like a quick tidy-up of the main rooms, printing off and prepping the next day's school work, setting the coffee pot & prepping a load of laundry to dump in the washer first thing in the a.m.

4. Meal planning -- yea...i was really good at this before i got pregnant. need to reestablish this routine ASAP.

5. 1 load of laundry per day~ Start to finish -- i am pretty good at keeping up with the laundry, but i slack off on weekends.

6. Dishes done each evening -- :bag this is so bad. my husband used to do the dinner dishes, but now that he is in the busy season, he's working until sun-down and leaving before the sun comes up. so i'm not cooking as much which leads to lots of snacking and lots of random dishes instead of big meal to clean up. plus i don't have a dishwasher and my baby belly is now making it quite painful to lean forward and lean over to wash the dishes in our tiny sink...WOW i'm good at making excuses haha but i am going to be very intentional about this one!

7. 5 minute bathroom cleaning - the "swish and swipe" was the only thing i latched onto from my flylady days, so i'm good here

8. Have a place for everything -- LOL.

9. Have a bedtime routine of cleaning up -- this is good... i hate stuff on the floor, so we do a run through with baskets before bed.

10. Don't say "yes" immediately to new requests -- oh man. the word "no" causes me physical pain, but i'll try. :)

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I'm willing to jump on this bandwagon. I'm already doing some of the stuff and my kids will be going to school part time in the fall, so I really need some better habits for the rest.

1. Wake up early: Really need to start doing this. Alarm is set for 7am, but I usually ignore it unless there's somewhere I have to be at by a certain time.

2. Go to bed early: The reason I don't get up early. :shifty I get so much done and feel so awake at night. I hate to give that up.

3. Evening Preparations: I need to figure out what this will involve at my house. :think

4. Meal planning: Do this already. We make a 2 weeks plan. Also, Dh has an alarm on his phone for 7pm so we can check what needs done for the next day's dinner. It's also the signal for the kids to get ready for bed.

5. 1 load of laundry per day~ Start to finish: That's the goal. Some days are more, some days I'm not home all day. :shrug3

6. Dishes done each evening: Dh is my savior for this. Once he understood how much it threw off my day to wake up to dirty dishes he started making sure they're done before he goes to bed every night. I load the dishwasher and dd puts away dry dishes in the morning.

7. 5 minute bathroom cleaning: I have the kids do this.

8. Have a place for everything: still working on this :shifty

9. Have a bedtime routine of cleaning up: kids have End Of Day Pickup every night before dinner. That takes care of 90% of the mess.

10. Don't say "yes" immediately to new requests: not an issue here

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1. Wake up early: Uhm. Well let's call this the nine things support thread. I'm not getting up early. :shrug

2. Go to bed early: Check-ish. I aim to be in bed no later than 11:00, but I was out getting groceries til almost ten, so I neeeeded a little down time.

3. Evening Preparations: My evening prep things are to make sure the dishes & laundry are started and that my meds are set out for the am.

4. Meal planning: I have a super cute meal planning chart, it's pretty so I can leave it out in the open and see it all the time.

5. 1 load of laundry per day~ Start to finish: I actually do this a little differently. I start the laundry before bed (11 ish), DH moves it to the dryer first thing in the am (6 ish), then I put it away during the day. I love doing it this way because the washer is empty to throw dirty clothes straight into.

6. Dishes done each evening: Load & run at night, M empties in the am so I can put dishes in immediately.

7. 5 minute bathroom cleaning: This is my oldest jurisdiction. It's her first morning chore. I step in once a week or so to do mirrors, floors and the shower.

8. Have a place for everything: I'm there, more or less. I'm always tweaking it a bit.

9. Have a bedtime routine of cleaning up: And locking up. :shifty We try to do most of it before we sit down for the night. M starts the dishes, I start the laundry. The kitchen is already clean from doing out dinner chores. Lock up, charge phones, shut down computer.

10. Don't say "yes" immediately to new requests: Not so fab at this one. Doing better. Still room to improve.

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1. Wake up early

I usually get up around 8 am, when dd gets up and forces me out of bed. DH leaves for work around 8:30 lately so this might give me time to take a shower alone (which really sets my day off great!), or if we get up after he's left dd and I take a bath together, which isn't bad depending on dd's mood... It's completely impossible for me to get up before her because she always wakes up as soon as I get out of bed, or on the rare occasion she's slept 10 minutes longer than me, she's SUPER cranky if she wakes up and I'm not right there. :sigh

2. Go to bed early Need to work on this. A few days a week I can't go to bed until midnight because of the hours I have my care child, but that ends May 3rd and I've already declared that our new bedtime will be no later than 10:30! I should work on going to bed earlier on the days I don't have to stay up though. :yes

3. Evening Preparations SUCH a huge help when I do it (a few times a week :blush). For us that means:
-Lay out my clothes for the next day
-Pack up anything needed for any outing the next day (church bags, MOPS stuff, etc.)
- TAKE MEAT OUT OF FREEZER FOR DINNER THE NEXT DAY. I am SO bad at this, and typically 5 pm rolls around and I go, "Darn it, I have this meal planned but what in the heck am I going to do with this solid ice block of chicken??" :doh
- Make a quick list of anything I need to remember/needs to happen the next day. I end up feeling lost and panicking and doing it halfway through the morning if I don't do this the night before.

4. Meal planning This is the one thing I have under control, every week without fail. I still don't know how people *don't* do this - we'd never eat if I didn't!

5. 1 load of laundry per day~ Start to finish

:shifty Currently a huge fail.

6. Dishes done each evening DH is a wonderful, wonderful man and does the dishes for me every morning before he goes to work. :heart He typically doesn't wash pots and pans though, so I should start doing those after dinner so my stove/sink can be completely clear when I get up. :)

7. 5 minute bathroom cleaning I don't typically do 5 minutes every single day, but I also don't mind cleaning my bathrooms at all so it's not a hassle to do it probably 3 times a week. Not something I typically procrastinate on.

8. Have a place for everything

My kitchen tables tends to pile up, even though it's a HUGE pet peeve of mine. :banghead I need to get our filing cabinet set up so I have a place for paperwork and things, and work on setting up some more little baskets and things to corral stuff in a more appropriate place.

9. Have a bedtime routine of cleaning up Starting tonight I'm instituting a pre-dinner cleanup of getting toys off the living room and kitchen floors. There needs to be more involved in this but I'm starting small. ;)

10. Don't say "yes" immediately to new requests

I *think* I do okay with this. :think Most of the time. :shifty

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1. Wake up early - I am BAD at this. I love my warm bed and I love sleeping.

2. Go to bed early - I am BAD BAD BAD at this. Night is my favorite. I've always been a night owl. I think my goal will be to be in bed by 11, then at least I'm there. I can nurse, watch TV, and be on the computer. We are terrible about sitting up watching TV downstairs until 1 am and later some nights. My husband functions just fine on short sleep hours, but I always feel bed when he has to get up at 7 the next day.

3. Evening Preparations - This doesn't mean much for me, except on weekends, and I'm pretty good about it.

4. Meal planning - I do pretty well with this. Every 2 weeks, I make a list of 10 meals that we like and get all the groceries to make them all. Then I just wing it, depending on what we do/what we are hungry for. It's nice to have flexibility. We ALWAYS stock chicken, rice, and frozen veggies so we have no excuses.

5. 1 load of laundry per day~ Start to finish - Did this today!! I always get laundry sorted/washed/dried then it sits in baskets until I have to spend a whole afternoon or evening folding it all. This is going to be the first habit that I pursue.

6. Dishes done each evening - I'm working on this and I do pretty well. I'm trying to re-teach my husband how to help with this. When we first got married, he always wanted to do the dishes after each meal, but I wanted to snuggle instead. :doh I was a fool!! :giggle

7. 5 minute bathroom cleaning - This is a good one. I usually just clean it as it needs it, but I might try this idea instead.

8. Have a place for everything - Pretty good at this. We've been remodling our house for the past few years, room by room. I have gone through EVERY thing that we own one by one and purged a ton of stuff! Feels SO good! I do need to go through my closet and slim it down a bit.

9. Have a bedtime routine of cleaning up - We do this every once and awhile. O only has free access to certain toys during the day, so typically everything gets picked up before the next thing comes out.

10. Don't say "yes" immediately to new requests - Pretty good about this.

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1. Wake up early
This is every morning for me because I have to.
2. Go to bed early
I did go to bed early, but then I feel like I wasted hours that I could've been doing something...:shifty
3. Evening Preparations
Did "some" prep but not nearly enough...got beef broth done last night for today
4. Meal planning
My nemesis! I need help big time with this one.
5. 1 load of laundry per day~ Start to finish
:no
6. Dishes done each evening
Dishes are never ending so we are constantly doing them anyway.
7. 5 minute bathroom cleaning
DH did this today. Hurray!
8. Have a place for everything
Definitely not...need to go through and organize a pile of papers tonight
9. Have a bedtime routine of cleaning up
Yes we do this every night because otherwise DH and I cannot function
10. Don't say "yes" immediately to new requests
Not an issue today...

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1. I SO need to work on getting up early. Reason why: At 7:30am this morning, my 2yo snuck into the kitchen and I assume by his limited vocab that he was trying to make a pot of coffee (which he now knows NOT to do, :giggle ) and he spilled the coffee grounds on the kitchen floor and on the chair he pushed against the counter. I uh, was desperate for coffee, so I saved the grounds on the chair. :shifty

2. Go to bed early...yeah, I'm a night owl, and DH & I like to game after the boys finally fall asleep, so I'm not sure how that'll work out.

3. Evening Preparations...so far this consists of...well, nothing. I suppose I could start setting the coffee pot, that way I'd have a set time to get up in the morning.

4. Meal planning - I actually used to be really good at this until my DH lost his job. Then it just ended up being whatever we had in the pantry. Slowly getting back into meal planning now though.

5. 1 load of laundry per day~ Start to finish. I did this, except the folding part.

6. Dishes done each evening. Something that I need to work on. The dishes are finally at a manageable point today thanks to DH. :heart

7. 5 minute bathroom cleaning. I'd do this tonight, but tomorrow we're having family over and I'm almost out of paper towels, so I'll clean the bathrooms tomorrow.

8. Have a place for everything. I have enough space in the hosue to put things, but no real organization, like file cabinets, cork boards, baskets, etc.

9. Have a bedtime routine of cleaning up. Working on it, I do try to pick up the toys after the boys go to bed.

10. Don't say "yes" immediately to new requests. Haven't dealt with this one yet. In fact, agreeing to have people over kind of acts as a swift kick in the pants. I freak out and clean like a madwoman.

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Subbing :cup I am bad at almost everything on this list :shifty

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We are waking up early 3 days a week to run :) so there's that...

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Cleaned the house yesterday with DH's help. Maintaining it is now is my goal. Need to stay on top of dishes, laundry, & clutter.

Been waking up around 7 since starting this 10 things thread, and yesterday my boys slept till almost 8am so I actually had quiet time and drank my coffee in peace! It made the whole day go smoother, or at least it seemed that way. :rockon

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1. Wake up early

I was doing well with this, then we all got colds, Lina wasn't sleeping worth beans, so we all were sleeping in to try to catch up on sleep, now I need to get back on track.

2. Go to bed early

I just canNOT figure out a way to make this work, dh is a night owl, the only time that works well for us to have couple time is late at night, if I go to bed early I'll never see him.

3. Evening Preparations

I need to work on this, big time!!!

4. Meal planning

I'm good at PLANNING the meals, need to actually USE the plan once I make it.

5. 1 load of laundry per day~ Start to finish

I'm good about this, hanging clothes on the line forces me to keep on top of it.

6. Dishes done each evening

I'm getting better at this.

7. 5 minute bathroom cleaning

This is a good idea, need to work on this.

8. Have a place for everything

:roll:roll:roll oh, you were serious? Great theory . . . I might achieve this before I die . . . maybe . . . if I live a REALLY long time . . . like till I'm 150!!

9. Have a bedtime routine of cleaning up

Need to work on this

10. Don't say "yes" immediately to new requests

Hmmm . . . this isn't really a big issue for us. . .

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1. Wake up early
DS1 is up early, thus I get up early. I don't get up before him unless we have an early appointment. When the boys start sleeping later I'll consider changing my practices.

2. Go to bed early
I'm super good at this when DH is home. My mom is here now and I get in bed early and then play on my Kindle or read.

3. Evening Preparations
I do a lot of this. If we have appointments the next day I get our clothes ready and get food ready for DS1. I will get stuff in the van if needed. I also shower at night during the week so I have very little to do to get ready in the morning.

4. Meal planning
We do this before we grocery shop

5. 1 load of laundry per day~ Start to finish
This usually happens, but it's not intentional. If I skip a day I do 2 the next. It's not a huge issue.

6. Dishes done each evening
We do this about 95% of the time.

7. 5 minute bathroom cleaning
DH used to do this in our bathroom. I should start doing this in our bathroom and the downstairs bathroom. The extra bathroom upstairs stays reletively clean and I check it before we have company.

8. Have a place for everything
We're working on getting there. We have a place for everything but it doesn't always end up in it's place.

9. Have a bedtime routine of cleaning up
I need to work on this.

10. Don't say "yes" immediately to new requests
I have no issues with this. I'm super good at keeping our schedule open and relaxed.

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:cup I'll try this. I used to do it and then got out of the habit. Well, not the waking up early or going to be early business.

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. Wake up early
Still happening :yawn
2. Go to bed early
Not happening. :yawn Pip lwas up until 1 am she had me up until 3 on saturdya morning.
3. Evening Preparations
I have been making this a priority
4. Meal planning
N/A
5. 1 load of laundry per day~ Start to finish
I am finally caught il and have organized stuff to make this easier:rockon
6. Dishes done each evening
:virtuoussmiley
7. 5 minute bathroom cleaning
:yes
8. Have a place for everything

9. Have a bedtime routine of cleaning up
We've been being more intentional about this the past few days. Morning crankiness is lower for everyone if it is tidy when we get up.
10. Don't say "yes" immediately to new requests

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Failed this weekend/this morning...but today is a new day, right? :shrug3

I did some evening prep last night so baby's bottles and food were already made and packed. Need to do some laundry for me and the kids for the rest of the week and get my breakfast cooked and packed.

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1. Wake up early.

Doing it. Working on 6:30 am.

2. Go to bed early

Ummm we are getting the girls to bed early. :shifty

3. Evening Preparations

Not so much...

4. Meal planning

We do once a month cooking so I suppose yeah we do this!

5. 1 load of laundry per day~ Start to finish

I am trying

6. Dishes done each evening

Uhhhh that's dh's job. :shifty usually...

7. 5 minute bathroom cleaning

Ha! Not quite

8. Have a place for everything

:lol not so much

9. Have a bedtime routine of cleaning up

We can do better here

10. Don't say "yes" immediately to new requests

This isn't really a problem.

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I'm doing it! Haha day 1 is going really well. I did
My evening prep last nite, went to bed with everything tidy, and woke up early to have my prayer time this morning. Our morning has gone more smoothly than we've had in months! I'm also on my 2nd load of laundry. This is such an improvement over the last little bit, i feel really good :)

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I baked muffins last night to make breakfast easier this morning.

I have an alarm on my phone that tells to to wrap up what I'm doing and head to bed. I'm going to set it for 15 minutes earlier each week until getting up at 7am doesn't become so hard.

I'm also going to try to stop ignoring the 7am alarm. :shifty

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I've been getting up earlier, and going to bed earlier ever since we started this thread. :rockon I had the dishes all taken care of before supper, if I feel decent soon, I'm going to go load it. I ran dipes in the wash today, I might run one more load of something. I have a load or two to fold that I didn't get to on Friday.

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So my washer is broken. :hissyfit It's throwing off my whole groove.

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that stinks! not having a washer is the worst.

i'm doing pretty well, a bit more tired today so we're moving slow. but i am getting my list done :)

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I need to wash clothes, it'll definitely get done tonight. I should also be able to do prep for my breakfast (W-F) tonight. Baby steps...

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My husband doesn't seem able to keep up his end of the dishes. I leave the house for a few hours a week and he fills the sink instead of the dishwasher. :mutter

He also didn't fold his garage towels and put them away like I asked him to.

I'll forgive him. :P~

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My washer isn't broken, but is currently being used 24/7 for stripping every cloth diaper we own. :banghead I have to remember to sneak in a load of real clothes after this current batch is done rinsing for all eternity so we actually have something to wear.

I just packed away a bunch of dd's toys that had started to accumulate without a good place for them, which makes evening cleanup a whole lot easier. :rockon