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GETTING MY ROUTINES BACK!

18th Jan 202116th Jan 2021 classyclassicsbykandis2 Comments

Hi good morning and welcome back to Classy Classic’s By Kandis!

How was your week last week?

Did you have a good first week of the new year?

Did you read last week’s blog?

All about the new year coming in! I will leave it linked below in case you didn’t get a chance to see it!

PREPARING FOR THE NEW YEAR!

BRING ON 2021

This week is pretty big for me in the house, I’m not even sure really where to start this week and so we’re just going to get through the week okay!

I thought this week we could talk about routines, cleaning, getting back to reality! Needing to get back in the habit of my routines, all of my routines that is. I have three main routines that we use morning afternoon and evening!

With it being the beginning of a new year that is a time that I liked to look over my routine since there’s nothing that’s jiving really well, but also I need to go to my routines because my kids went back to school!

There will be more stuff like this on my other social media page’s! Make sure you come on over to Facebook or Instagram after I’ll have two links down below at the bottom please just have a little more day today personal aspects of my life!

So, with the kids going back they haven’t been in school since last March, we went with remote learning for the first half so we could see how it was like! I had asked my kids what they wanted to do for the last half of the school year, and they said they wanted to give it a try and see what it was like! So just like that they are getting ready to get on to the bus!

This is why I said I guess I’ll sit down and go through my routines, and get everything as smooth running as what we can too to get through the rest of the school year and to have a great start to the 2021 year.

This is something that I will just sit down one day this week and pull out all the routines and I have on hand, old ones and some newer ones plus the one from remote learning that I had set up!

This way I can sit down and I can see what was working before to see what was working now and try to get the best of both routines set for the best productive outcome that we can!

Do you do routines?

Do you have one big routine, smaller routines, do you have an hourly outlay?

How do you do your routines or your schedules for the day?

I have lots of other blog post on my older routines that I will go ahead and list here!

THE POWER OF A ROUTINE!

A GOOD DAY STARTS WITH A GOOD MORNING ROUTINE!

AFTERNOON ROUTINE.. DON’T FORGET THE COFFEE!

EVENING ROUTINE..COUNT DOWN TO BED!

Routines have always being a strong impact in my house, and I look forward to getting back into a strong secure routine!

I also have zone cleaning that I used to keep up with some different tasks, I also have it daily tasks that I do along with my routines just to keep everything as controlled as I can!

HOW I KEEP UP WITH THE HOUSE USING ZONE CLEANING!

So why go back through them, why deal with resetting them, re-cropping them?

It really is just because I always redoing my routine always looking at them!

They are always changes, needing to have a couple quick switches! Depending on the time of season literally as I live in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Also depending on the stage of the kids at the time, and all of that it really kind of changes. Not day by day, but definitely season-by-season and age by age!

I find if I can get back to my routines, especially now that the kids are back in school, that it can definitely help me have a more productive day, have more time for myself, but, also have more play time for the littles that are still at home.

I still have two kids that are at home. One that is four and one that is two. So I am still very busy. My schedules are only so flexible as I have toddlers that try to run my life. And so I find if they can have a nice routine. It kind of balances out their time too, and they know that Mommy will get play time, but mommy also needs her time, but mommy also needs some cleaning time.

How do you restart your routines when it comes to trying to get the chaos back under control?

Over the last week I thought I would start with one routine at at a time as that’s going to be the easiest way I think without getting overwhelmed!

So if you are into routines and trying just stay on track, while still trying to be a mom do the laundry get the supper on the table but, hopefully you will join me in the next couple weeks.

Getting routines back together kids back under somewhat control, and we’re going to get going on 2021.

Make sure you hit the like button down below so I know to keep going with my blogs. I’m not real sure what 2021 has in store. I just know that I am really enjoying blogging and having all of you with me through this year.

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So until next week. Have a wonderful day, a fun weekend and a productive week.

Bye for now.

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MY LAUNDRY LIFE

16th Nov 202016th Nov 2020 classyclassicsbykandis1 Comment

Hello good morning and welcome back to Classy Classic’s By Kandis!

How was your week on deep cleaning your zone?

I hope you are finding it an easier way to get holiday ready!

It is funny I thought with the week that I had I would try to incorporate my laundry routine into the holiday prep!

What a better time, then while I am washing everything under my roof!

Let me tell you why!
There is a couple reasons on why this blog is about my laundry routine! I am also going to be sharing my laundry detergent and fabric softener that I make.

I do laundry EVERYDAY here! The sad thing is is that is me being caught up, on laundry.

Last month my washer had went! A whole month I had no washer here, our neighbor was so nice and let us take some over to do it there. I will tell you the husband was never so eager to do laundry for me. It wasn’t all taken care of because I can’t take all of the laundry over. But, he was definitely more than willing to go for a beer to throw a load of laundry in for me.

Now that my washer is fixed. There is definitely a need for the laundry routine again. I spent the last 3 days catching up on laundry and boy was there still a lot! With the washer fixed and laundry back on track!

I thought it would be a good time to talk about my laundry routine.

Laundry is something that gets done everyday here. I really enjoyed using the delay button on my washer. I had never used this before and then I was watching a video one day and a lady had said why not use the delay system on the washer?

Well, why not?

She had said it’s like doing a chore while you’re sleeping. Why wouldn’t you have the laundry wash itself while you were sleeping and be able to put it into the dryer when you get up?

Just like that it made sense.

Why not put laundry in the night before have it set to go off super early in the morning? Throw it in the dryer and laundry is half done already, before I’m even having my coffee. This is something I am trying to put into the evening routine. I will put what I am washing the next day in and set it to go off at about 5 a.m. In morning when I get up, I can simply get it into the dryer.

If there’s another ready I can simply keep going with laundry!

Little while back, couple kids ago I sat down and I cropped it and new laundry routine! I am in the process of teaching my oldest kid how to do laundry, but with that it gets kind of difficult waiting on them to feel like putting it in.

So ready or not here we go.

I have something on the go for laundry every day, this is a nice way to keep me caught up. This also gives us enough time to make sure that is folded and everyone can get their clothes put away.

Monday- my sheets, toddler sheets and once a month are quilts.

Tuesday- I try to do towels.

Wednesday – my husband and my clothes

Thursday – the crib sheets and start of the big kids laundry pile

Friday- the big kids sheets once a month their quilts

Saturday -finish the big kids laundry from upstairs

Sunday – sort everything and to just finished washing folding and putting away.

Depending on the zone that I’m in that week depends on what extra I might be washing. For example if my zone is in the bathroom for an extra load, I will wash the bathroom matts that are on the floor also before the holidays I will always wash my shower curtains!

Like you can see laundry is always on the go here! There is always something that can get put into the wash.

This takes me my next part of my laundry blog which is my laundry detergent and fabric softener!

If you have been following me for a bit. Then you know that I make my own laundry detergent and fabric softener. I am sure this in a blog before. But I thought I would share it again here on this laundry blog.

Laundry detergent
For the laundry detergent that should last at least three months if not even longer. I’m not 100% sure of how long my last but I know it last definitely months. I always told myself to mark down when I make it so that I can see how long it lasts us here, but then I never do.
What you will need is:
 1 box borax
 1 large box baking soda
 1 container, Unstoppable beads
 1 box of Arm & Hammer laundry soap
 3-4 graded bars of soap of sunlight laundry bars
 1 container of oxy
Mix them all together and store them in any container. I use 2 scoops from one of the containers and that is all I do.

FABRIC SOFTENER
Where the fabric softener all you were going to need is:
 2 cups of conditioner
 3 cups of white vinegar
 6 cups of water
Mixed together I use an old fabric softener jug that I have had for years and mix it all together. Put it into the jug. Give it a good Shake. Good to go use one capfull as you usually would in your wash.

So that it is there’s my laundry routine. That’s how I try to keep up with laundry and what I use when I do my laundry.

What about you?

How do you do you laundry?

Do you have a routine that you do to keep up or do you do laundry on the weekend?

Let me know in the comments down below!

Enjoy the laundry blog, it’s a nice way to try to keep, up with the house for the holiday season!

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The holidays are right around the corner, I’m getting ready to pull my holiday book and start my outlines.

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Bring on the holidays. Full fun of cooking, baking, organizing and lots of cleaning motivation. Make sure you add your email address when you fall of the blog.

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HOLIDAY HOUSE PREP!

9th Nov 20209th Nov 2020 classyclassicsbykandis1 Comment

Hello and good morning’ welcome to Classy Classic’s By Kandis! It is full holiday prep here in this house! I am so determined to have some epic holidays here!

What are your plans big or small for the holidays this 2020?

This blog was stating as a undecorate with me. Then life happened and I ended up organizing and deep cleaning one of my holiday crawl space.

This is ALL holidays except Christmas…it has it’s own space lol

This is not a new thing for me, and I am trying to take my camera with me more! I am definitely trying to bring you all along with me this holiday season.

I was totally pumped for all the Halloween decorations and fun treats!

Did you catch the Halloween fun blog?

I will leave it linked here along with the Halloween goodies blog!

HALLOWEEN FUN!

HALLOWEEN GOODIES

So when Halloween is done, I usually do wait a little after before intake down the decorations! However, this year that did not happen.

Let me tell you why!

I have a rule in the house that we do not decorate for Christmas until after Remembrance Day. There is already thanksgiving here in Canada in October so, that gives me a couple weeks.

Now, I also want to point out that my son’s birthday is the beginning of December. Most years I don’t even decorate until after his birthday but, this year I asked him if we could decorate early and…. WE ARE!

Like I said I am having fun with ALL holidays this year.
The day after Halloween as I was talking with the family, we ended up getting all the decorations down. It did not stop there tho!

I ended up getting more organizing tubs last time I was in the city! I ended up separating the Halloween costumes this year. I had had them set up with a box for the adult costumes and a tub form the kids.

With the big kids getting bigger, they are getting to the adult ones any ways….. not to mention the mess of both bins coming out anyways!

What is next for the home with holiday prep?

I find this is a good time to start trying to get some nagging annoying tasks off the list, and just be done with them.

My deep cleaning usually takes place from January through March. I thought this year I would start now and work on house stuff then!
I have been working through the zones with taking more time for the dirty deep cleaning and organizing.

Do you have your zones mapped out?

I’ll leave a link for my zone cleaning blog here!

HOW I KEEP UP WITH THE HOUSE USING ZONE CLEANING!

This week in the house is the kitchen and back bottom zone. I am not a fan of deep cleaning either I will point out. With deep cleaning I just hate how messy all of the house gets as I am making a big mess with deep cleaning. I tell myself that the big mess will be taken care of and the deep cleaning is at least done for this round.

This week for deep cleaning I took care of washing cupboards, organizing them, I pulled the stove and ewwww cleaned behind it. I had tempted to pull the fridge out and clean behind there but, the fridge moved me more then I moved it.

It wasn’t as bad as I thought it might be!

It also didn’t take as long as I tend to think!

So that task will have to wait!

I also took care of the chairs… these all, get wiped down again before the holidays. The fan is white again, walls have been wiped, my oak stand wiped and organized, then I’m moving into organizing the shelves in my back room and reorganizing it.

My wall washer makes walls too easy for an excuse!

I am going to make a spot for my extra under the sink cleaning products and only some more daily items left under the sink.

With just some doors to be wiped, floor needs a good scrub and baseboards needing wiped I think it was a good productive week.

I managed to get a Amazon order in….. with one gift still may be not making it until December 23rd!

How are you Christmas shopping this year?

I have bigger hopes then any other year to have my shopping done early cause well WHAT A YEAR!

I hope you are excited for the holiday blogs coming up. It is going to be fun with baking, cooking, cleaning and organizing motivation it will be a great time!

Looking forward to the holiday blogs make sure to like this one and I will keep you updated on the house holiday prep!

Let me know what you are looking forward to this holiday season?

Got something you are struggling with to get motivation on to get done for the holiday season?

Comment down below and let’s get holiday motivated!

Next week I am scared, it is the upstairs zone! This has 3 of my kids up there! I am not sure if I need to explain the scariness of this situation!

Make sure you are following the blog, follow with an email and get noticed on new blogs every week! It will be a season to remember!

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I am excited to make not only this holiday season great but, also to have a great time bringing you all along on my crazy days as we wind down 2020! I’m prepping for what wonkiness 2021 might have up it’s sleeve!

Until next week and a new blog, have a great day, productive week and a fun weekend!

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MONTHLY GOALS.. A CUTE WAY

2nd Nov 20201st Nov 2020 classyclassicsbykandisLeave a comment

Good Morning, welcome back!

Happy new month! I have always liked the beginning of a new month! It just feels like a way to get started again. There is always a new adventure waiting, a new talk, celebration, something.

There is, always new goals. I have trying to make this crazy 2020 year as fun and well normal that I can! It seems to be getting hard as more and more things keep arising in this year!

However, when I got my new planner it has a section that I wasn’t sure what to do with! Then one day at the beginng of the month I had a thought! This is how I now have turned one page in my planner each month into a overview of my monthly goals and dreams!

Do you try to reach different goals each month?

What goals do you change month to month? With my monthly layout it has more then my goals!

This is a place where I get to jaz up and make a spot for myself to look and amost reflect on some stuff!

With it now November … EEKK Happy holiday season! With the holiday season now here 2020 or not, I thought I would share my monthly layout and then we can get rolling into the holiday season here on Classy Classics By Kandis!

Let me start with sharing a little about my self and why I am so excited about the holidays here on the blog with all of you! I am a stay at home mom, I have 4 very energetic children ages 11,9,3, and 1 ½ this soon to change as everyones birthday is in the winter months here! I have been married for 12 years and a stay at home mom since our first.

I started my blog in the hopes to connect with moms who are just trying! Trying to get the laundry done, crumbs swept up and possibly have a coffee before its cold or like me and gets put down and lost! I am a organizer and a baker from home, and also started working with Monat.

This is all things that I love to do, with that I am all about finding some tricks to make those daily tasks smooth so that there is time for all the fun in life. I love sharing any organizing, cleaning, baking, decorating, and planning stuff! If this is some things that you are jiving then make sure you hit that like button and follow the blog!

With the holidays here I am trying to post more, I am trying to remember to bring you all along with me in this fun, crazy rollercoster if a ride 2020 has brought! So if you are ready for a planning and organizing, dream and goal chasing blog then lets go!

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NEW MONTH LAYOUT

When it comes to a new month I will always try to have what I am trying to do broke down, this is so it seems almost like less. More personal not just more chores written down. I will make sure to include personal chores also, I like to always try to do at least one thing for me in the month, even if it’s just to do a facemask or maybe a later t.v night!

I have 3 spots on my page:

I usually start with outdoor chores, then I have inside chores, then on the bottom I have my personal. The personal part has family stuff and my stuff sometimes.

So, this month it says picture day, well my kids are not in a school, as we actually didn’t have an option of going to the school to get them done.

What did you do for school pictures this year?

So, this picture day that will be put in the month of Novemeber, used for a family Christmas card photo. I have to say I am sad that there was school photos this year! I am going to have to make this a good picture lol!

Got any good ideas to incorporate a no school, but school 2020?

Haha I look forward to all of your help on this one!

So on the planner page, there is 3 catagories, then I make sure to add birthdays, or other holidays. I will add some pretty birthday washi tape on above the holiday section on the bottom of the page.

It is an American planner so, any Canadian holidays is what I mean I add if there is holidays to add.

IMPORTANCE OF NEW GOALS!

I find that having new goals set in mind tends to help keep me on track a little more. I will something roll my monthly goals over to the new month. This depends on what the goals where!

If you just focus on one goal it can make the months long. I find I can get a little more hard on myself, if I can get my mind set on new goals it as a great energy to it!

New month, new goals, new dreams. When I am working on my weeks in the month, I can easily take a goal from the month and place it where I can get the best and more productive time for it.

How do you do new months?

Is there something that you do for you? How do you set up for a new month. I am extra exited for November as, after Rememeberance day happens, this is when I say I can bring out my Christmas planning book.

This is year Christmas is in full forse! Are you going big for the holidays this year?

If you liked the planner blog, make sure you go ahead and hit that like button. With holidays here there is so many more holiday planning, organizing, cleaning, cooking and baking coming.

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It is going to get fun here on Classy Classics By Kandis. I hope you will join the fun this holiday season.

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Till next week!

Have a great happy new month planning day!

Its going to get fun here on Classy Classics By Kandis, with 2020 being how it was I am determined to make this holiday season as great as I can!

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