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SUMMER ROUTINE!

Hello, good morning!

Welcome back to another blog with me! Hi I’m Kandis with Classy Classics By Kandis!

I am a stay-at-home mom with 4 kids 2 are classed as big kids and 2 are classed as little kids! All in the aged of 12 down to 2 years year old!

Our summer routine tends to look a little different time to time however, usually works out pretty close to the same!

The kicker with the summer vacations is my big kids go to their grandparents for a bit to the summer holidays, and so we tend to do more routine for just me and the littles!

The littles dont have much chores I have found that with my last two kids I’m not near as stricked on the littles with helping as I was when the older ones were!

So, I thought I would share our summer routine with how I have it set up for the day!

This will be more of a quick outline and if you would like more of a details routine give me a thumbs up and leave a comment and I would love to do one more detailed routine!

Like I was saying this one is going to be more for my outline through the day and what I tried to have outlined and needing to be done!

My day tends to start early lately as my youngest still feels he needs to be up at 6:30 am. During this time I try to enjoy some coffee depending on how whinny he wakes up, I came to try to sit down and just relax in the morning playing part of my games and checking Facebook, Snapchat, working on my blog stuff like that!

I will then sit down and work on my planner figure out what I’m trying to do for cooking, cleaning, possibly baking and other just day-to-day tasks.

Not all of my kids get up at the same time like by no means so breakfast usually consist of whoever’s up for the most part what they would like. I don’t always do big breakfast but, pre prepped breakfast can be really convenient.

After some lovely coffee time I will then get going on our morning. Usually, around 7:30 I will try to get dressed, wash up I use monat and my skin, I love it I have done a routine on my skin care that I will leave linked, I will also leave my monat shopping link for you to check out!

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A GOOD DAY STARTS WITH A GOOD MORNING ROUTINE!

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After all of that I will usually try to start organizing my day I get going on my morning chores. I tend to try to do more of my tasks in the morning so, that we can try to get outside before lunch and after naps without having a complete disaster of a house.

During nap time, I will aim to try to do either work in the yard, then some cleaning that didn’t get done and it just may be easier without the toddlers! There are some days where I might just need to lay down and take a nap, I don’t always do the best with that though and I tend to sometimes feel bad about it even when I’m not supposed to.

Then, after nap we will usually get up have snack and head outside or find some toys depending on what the weather is like.

I will start thinking about supper if not start prepping it, tidy up outside or just fill in those couple hour gap with sometimes. Something usually needs to be done LOL. Seems like a mother’s job is never done does it.

After supper I will clean up the kitchen get the dishwasher going any dishes that needed to be hand washed done just the kitchen whites and tidied up.

I try to sweep at night but that doesn’t always happen depending on how everything is shaping up that night.

Around 7:30 or so is the toddler’s bath or shower time we will then get on pyjamas and finish tidying up the toys and maybe watch a little bit of a movie before you get me ready for bed.

Around 8:15 8:30 is bedtime snack followed by teeth, find their bottles get them filled up and ready for bed. I try to have the littles in bed right around 9 my four-year-old will tend to just play in his room well in his bed until he falls asleep. The youngest you just go to bed because it he’s going to get up at 6:30 in the morning then he can just go to bed LOL.

Then from 9 to 10 I will usually do another task that can get done whether it be some sort of a cleaning task or back into my garden to get a little more done. Then I will come in wash up, get on pyjamas and watch my Netflix until I either put myself to sleep or just passed out sitting up in bed this does happen more than what I would plan.

That is my summer routine in a nut shell, it keeps me busy I am trying to learn how to take a step back sit down maybe I smell a flower now and then and not just weed them continuously but, you do what you got to do for the stuff that you want I guess right.

I hope you enjoyed this blog or my summer routine do you have a summer routine?

Doesn’t change every day?

I have kind of kept my morning afternoon and evening routines to a degree as my cleaning routines I have become a very big routine and so they just kind of stayed for the most part in place.

I hope you have a wonderful summer oh, I hope you make wonderful family memories oh, and I hope to see you when mask supposably left here in Saskatchewan. If you want some more fun little more personal details of what I am doing in my days make sure you head over to one of my other social media pages and either on Facebook or on Instagram.

I do tend to go on Facebook more right now than I do Instagram I turn to friend in and out of Instagram.

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Until next week have a great day, a wonderful weekend and a productive week.

Bye for now.

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PREPPING FOR SUMMER!

Hello and good morning! Summer is coming fast now! Kids are on their last day of school if not out now, garden is growing and the tan is coming along nice!

With summer here it seems to mean what seems like jamming as much as possible into like 2 months! Mine are done at the end of June heading back beginning of September!

With cleaning, garden, yard projects, trips and a family time it’s busy trying to do it all and with 4 kids home asking for a snack lol every minute.

I am a stay-at-home mom of 4 kids, 2 are in school, 1 starts playschool in the fall and 1 is still at home for a couple years!

There is a few things I have to realize that it is just easier to have some plans in place! A game plan set! Some lists created!

There is nothing I love more than sitting down and making some good summer lists!

This can be done on ANYTHING! A peice of paper, a fun summer book, make a fun chart on Canva or, just with the kids art stuff! What ever your time is or your passion is it can work any way you need it to!

I will usually start with just paper and a pen! If I find motivation or time I will then make them up different to just add some summer fun! It’s surprising to see the difference a fun pattern can do for a list! haha

I find that there is more categories that I crop then I thought just thinking quickly!

My summer lists this year include:

  • Cleaning
  • Meals and snack ideas
  • Meal prep and freezer meals
  • Vehicle cleaning and summer prep
  • Routines
  • Trips or any “vacation” planning
  • Projects
  • Outside chores for routines or not

This is why I say it can be easier to sit down and make that list, that hopes and dream lists! I would never of had the brain power or space to have all that floating around vs being on a good old peice of paper! lol

Squirrel brain at its finest here lol!!

Let’s break it down now into the lists in the categories you have down! REMEMBER YOUR SUMMER LIST WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AS SOMEONE ELSE’S!

CLEANING

This is a very big area and so, when I put cleaning it is going to be broken down to the deep cleaning! The daily cleaning will get put on the routines! I do my spring cleaning in the winter so, my “cleaning” this summer is for tasks that can only really be done in the summer like:

– shampooing rugs

– outside windows

– cleaning camper, shop

– vehicle cleaning and prep can go here too!

ect…

MEALS AND SNACKS!

Meals and snacks are a forever ongoing thing in my house! With how much the “snack” food costs I try to have snacks planned! We also follow Jordan Page and the “If it’s in a wrapper it’s not to be eaten at home!” They are the most expensive thing to go the fastest in the house! So, if we are in the car, at a park etc, then those are the snacks that I will pack for them more! If we are at home then the wrapped goodies don’t come out! So, having snacks planned can make it easier not to grab them on those lazy hot days, or the busy working day!

Meals I find I waste less, spend less and eat better when I can have a good meal plan in place! There is definitely a difference in the foods that are eaten in the winter vs summer! So, having a good list to choose from can make summer meal planning and freezer meals easier! I love freezer meals in the summer for the days I don’t want to be in the kitchen or, super busy days they come in so much help!

ROUTINES

My routines always get a new outline to them! Most of the things stay the same as what they do through the year but there is definitely some things I need to change as there is no school now. So, what the only things that really change is the afternoon and a little bit of our morning routine but, for the most part the only thing that’s kind of changes is the time frames. It’s, can be nice not needing to worry about getting up for school going to bed at a good time because of school, however if I don’t have some structure in place I find that’s a little will to get way too over tired and my big kids will just try to not sleep at all. I tried to keep up with reading through the summer and depending on how the kids are doing we will try to do math and spelling also. Not a lot I don’t ask a lot for them about 15 minutes per subject.

TRIPS AND/OR FAMILY TIME

This one is still kind of up in the air with what exactly might happen with how the summer might go! But, when it comes time to planning and trying to prep what might happen, this is in regards to things like:

Are the big kids going to the grandparents for the summer?

For how long?

Are we going to do anything with the littles while they are gone?

Are we trying to go somewhere this year with everyone since we might be able to actually do stuff like that this year LOL!

So, that is part of what I mean when I say trips and family time! Also are we planning any beach time we’re not big on public places so when we do we try for lakes, or go with a group of friends!

This is all things that I would like to have a game plan for not sketched in stone but, would like to have an idea of what I might need to maybe pick up from Walmart or Dollar Tree when I’m in the city next just little things to make it easier when the time comes!

PROJECTS AND OUTSIDE CHORES!

This is going to cover all outside projects and the garden! This is going to be for trees to be planted, we are trying to get a railing up maybe on our deck, any other building or maintenance work outside! I would like to have a game plan or an idea so we can start getting a budget and time and supplies figure it out LOL! Other things would be something like outside equipment or pools or toys that I’m trying to get for outside for the kids, getting the camper cleaned up we are getting ready to sell our camper so, that has to be cleaned out and ready! With that are we going to go camping with the camper one more time? This will also be are we making a sitting area outside what kind of play areas am I going to try to DIYs things like that so again I have an idea of what I might want to look for when I do get to the city now and then in the summer! This will also include a garden list of things to get done in the summer!

There you have it that is how I prep myself for the most part for summer break!

How do you get ready for your kids home for the summer?

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Have a great day I wonderful weekend a productive week I’ll talk to you next week.

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