Hi and good morning! Welcome back to Classy Classics By Kandis! I thought I would take this weeks blog to talk about the power of routines! I have tryed a lot of different routines and scheduals over the years, to most always fall back on my “basic” routines!
Do you have regular routines?
I wanted to write this weeks blog about routines, to help tie in the next couple blogs, but to also point out that not everyone will have the same outline, schedual or the same amount of routines for the matter either!
Did you see the last blog on zone cleaning?
I will link it here if you did not see it, then go ahead and check it out next!
HOW I KEEP UP WITH THE HOUSE USING ZONE CLEANING!
This is a nice way to keep your whole house in control while you work, hitting some areas vs trying to clean your whole house at one time!
I have done other outine blogs, however I thought I would update the routine blogs, as I am revamping mine to get ready for the new school year!
Let me tell you about myself and why I relay on my routines to help me through the days! With being a stay at home mom, I have been for about 11 years now, I have 4 children aged 11,9,3 and 1 1/2!
This year a reason why my routines need a little extra attention is that I am teaching them at home this year! We have decided to keep our kids home till christmas at least. I have been married for 12 years, and have a couple little side job/hobbies at home!
Needless to say I stay rather busy, my days can deffently blurr together, and the house can look like a cracker factory exploded some days! Now I know my house is not perfect… like not close, but I don’t want it gross cause well I do live here! lol.
I am the type that will always just keep on going whether I have the help or not. I always say “anything is possible in 24 hours” just look at cinderella haha! I am a mom that believes my children can help and they do… or at least they are supposed to!
I have spent to many hours trying to figure out how to get my house under control. I get ancy really fast, anxeity will just come and knock on the door and let its self in! It took me a long time to realize that just like anything in life, your situation, your life style, your hopes and goals will not be the same as ANYONES!
Now im not saying don’t go and look here and there, don’t try to copy someones schedual. This is how you will learn what works for you and your family. I am saying tho don’t get discuraged if it takes a couple rounds to get it smoothed out!
I am a straight up schedualar! I love my routines, I need my routines! I can live without them, however I find my anxeity gets to me faster, I get more stressed and I will try to over do everything that I am trying to do. I lose control over the rooms and everything stats piling up in all sorts of corners!
This is when I will get overwhelmed and just start not being my best! This is not going to help anything or anybody. I have a lot of routines that I will fall to at times. Depending on what is happeneing in our life at that time, maybe its a change in season and the chores are changing up.
So what are my routines that I like to follow or at least have on hand?
There is many that I use like I said, and I am working on setting them up for the winter here at home. The next few weeks I will be writting about how I am revamping my routines, where they are in the house, and how they help not only me but the whole family.
The first one lets starts with is setting up the zone cleaning.
This one went out last week and I am loving that I restarted it. Zone cleaning is simply breaking your house up into “zones” having a certain spot each week that you are tackling. This is to declutter, deep clean and organize.
This however is set each week to keep it so I am not trying to do everything everyday! This is also away that I am able to get my spring cleaning done throughtout the winter vs deep cleaning everywhere in a weekend.
I also have in a cleaning binder the daily, weely, monthly and yearly chores written out, then once a day I can look at the zone im in and do one weekly chore for that zone, this will help and take care of the deep cleaning through the weeks.
The next routines I feel go together, but have their own important tasks. I will usually have and be using my morning, afternoon and evening routines. These ones will need to be looked at and changed I think more then once.
As the kids start schooling at home, this will be a big change for the house. This is where I feel these routines may take a couple go’s at to get them situated.
The evening routine will stay close to how it usually is, however I still change it up, I am from saskatchewan and the difference between winter and summer is just that. The opposite and our weather shows it.
Another routine that I will use is the block sysytem. This one I found from Jordan Page! I will leave a link for it… if I can lol.
This system is nice I find when trying to get the other routines smoothes over. This is like a hourly layout but it does not work hourly it works in chunks of the day! So on a paper you will make 3 charts!
One that is morning, one for afternoon and evening. This is a spot where you put what gets done when in the day. I like this for when I am overwhelmed and trying to just do to much. This will help plan for unexpected stuff that comes up. If you know that you will be working at a certain time but you have a block set out for nothing say at 2pm then you can add your extra’s in the time that you know will not bomb the rest of your day!
This system is a nice overlook of a day to help plan out your days smoother! So as you can see I tend to have a bit of routines and lists! This I do because I find when I feel I need to redue my routines or make them a little more smooth, then if they are not ready, or not strong enough I have other things to guide me through figuring it out.
These I find can be nice to as a little reminder to me that even when I feel that a lot has not been taken care of, I can look and see what has been done and what needs to be done! Without ripping my house apart and “deep cleaning” in a weekend!
Do you have routines?
Do you use them?
Looking for a smoother way?
I hope this blog as motivated you to get a routine sketched out. They are a game changer that will hopefully help you have a smooth house.
I have done older blogs about all my routines that I will link for you to have a look.
There is more routine blogs also on the webpage!
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I will be starting new blogs on my routines! It will be fun! Don’t miss out one these blogs coming!
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