#momsupport – Classy Classic's By Kandis

Hi and good morning! Happy Monday! I can’t believe how fast the week went by! Maybe it’s the time of year, maybe it’s the busy spring vibes! Whatever it is I’m hoping it slows down during the summer months!

With being a full time mom of 4 kids, a wife and home maker, days can tend to blur together, some days seem to last FOREVER!

I am trying to enjoy what life is throwing my way and enjoy the stage that’s I am in!

The stage where there is toys everywhere, followed with crumbs, clothes and something sticky!

I have been finding myself with blocking more and more time out for walks around the yard, kicking the ball and of coarse yard clean up! Always something to clean lol!

Something that I have recently started doing is blocking out more but shorter “tidy times”! As I’ve been learning more on how long certain chores take it makes it easier to set certain chores to certain times!

Let me explain what I mean! If I have a 20 minute window to do something before something else is set up then I will try to do either 4…5 minute tasks or I will do a bigger 20-30 minute task!

This has made it a little easier for me to break up whatever is zone that I am working in for that week into smaller bits throughout the week instead of trying to do more than what I need to do in the zone!

I can sometimes I actually get more done in a week in a certain area if I break it into smaller bits throughout the whole week! Instead of working for say an hour each day in the zone, where are some tasks that I’m trying to do that day won’t take an hour and I could actually be spending the rest of that time doing something else instead of being in that zone!

I have a couple blogs about zone cleaning I will leave linked down below! I love Zone cleaning I have done it for years now and it’s just a really nice way to break up your house and break up your chores to stay on top of everything just a little easier!

When I happen to have a chore or a zone that I cannot do with the littles or as easy, I will then try to do my other quicker tasks and easier tasks while they are up, then I take nap time for a bigger chores!

This is another reason why learning time frames for tasks was a little important for me!

With doing it this way, it really made me see how quick I could get some of the stuff actually done! To try to learn to break it up into bits and pieces this is when I can go from doing a quick 10-15 minute clean too quick 30 minute house clean!

When I mean with this is that say I am vacuuming the upstairs stairs, and everything is going okay kids are still playing good. I can then maybe vacuum Mason’s room that’s another five minutes if it’s picked up already oh, maybe I’ll try to vacuum my room that is one of the quickest rooms to vacuum it doesn’t have carpet but I like getting into whatever corners I can. Maybe everything keeps going good and then I can just keep on going well all of a sudden just like that all of the vacuuming is done in less time then telling myself to tackle “the whole house”.

This is were my routines also come in nice! I find this helps me not worrying about doubling the chore either!

Take the evening routine! I find this one probably the most important one too keep!

I find myself not as ancy about chores that I know will be part of the routine! If I need to clean the kitchen, I will take more time tackling other deeper cleaning tasks instead of do basic chores that I know will happen anyways later! Just a different way to help with times and chores!

There is so many things happening with summer coming but, with getting little bit done here and there is a good way for this house to learn to break up the day, and chores to make room for outside life!

I have routine blogs that I will link! I change my routines lots in the year! Depending on the time of year depends on the routine! For the most part they keep the same idea some chores change but the timeline is what can really change of course!

I am learning it doesn’t matter what time of the day the floors get done, or when the sinks get shined! These tasks will be there until I find that 5 minutes to get them in, or wait till the routine time!

“Little by little, task by task, it will a get done”

I hope this helps in finding time for those tasks!

Waiting for supper? Fold some laundry, clean out that junk drawer while your there! A little goes along way!

I will link my Instagram and Facebook! There is always fun there, with daily day to day mom life!

Until next week

Have a great day, a wonderful weekend and a productive week!

Bye for now!

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Hi good morning!

Happy Monday! How was your week last week?

It has been busy in the household, getting spring cleaning done I’m trying to get my seeds as big and strong as I can for the garden, it can be really hard not to burn out before I even get out of bed!

Do you ever have the problems with just not having motivation?

I find if I don’t do certain things in the day I definitely lose motivation quicker than other days!

I thought I would share some ways that I try to find some extra motivation on days that I don’t want motivation!

There are definitely a couple tips and tricks that I have found through the years that has helped me friend that motivation and get up off your butt and get something done.

One of the first things that I find is a nice motivation enhancer is getting up, making my bed, getting dressed and washed up!

This just helps me wake up and be able to enjoy my coffee a little more!

When I have lack of motivation and fine just doing some of my basic housework tends to wake me up a little more to try to get some bigger tasks done.

No matter what our daily tasks that need to be done, these are all put into routines of mine and are almost not even chores anymore.

Looking for extra motivation I will clear the counters, clean up the sink, sweep the floor don’t forget to wipe that table.

These are all little things that I find make a big difference and how the house looks, and so then when I am lacking energy to do a bigger task to see the end result of just these little daily tasks and how much it makes a difference definitely it will give me extra motivation to do a bigger task that I don’t want to do! Knowing that it’s going to just be done then and it’s going to be so satisfying when it is done!

I needed to realize that I didn’t need to be on my hands and knees or polishing everything all the time, and this is where I have found some of my quick clean tools to be a lifesaver!

With this I love my environment cloths from norex all it takes is water and it disinfects the surface! With a little swish swoop and is all clean!

I will run my Robo around the house to pick up some crumbs while I am sweeping some corner, and then I still have a task being done without feeling bad about spending extra time on a bigger task!

I love breaking my tasks up into smaller chores, this will make it seem that is not as big of a task and it’s okay if it’s not going to get done in one day! I break my cleaning up into zones and so my fuller focus is on that zone of the week!

This way I can do the ceilings in the living room one week and maybe do the dusting in windows, and then the next time that my living room zone comes into play I know I don’t have to be washing walls and deep cleaning corners because maybe that was already done the last round in the zone!

I have to tell myself that not every room needs to be completely top-to-bottom scrubbed all the time oh, that’s silly like who would think that!

Another thing to try to find motivation is to not look for it all the time, there is nothing wrong with sitting down having a cup of coffee putting your feet up oh, maybe just watching the show! I know for me that when I sit down I seem to think I sat a lot longer than what I did and then I find a little extra motivation to get up and going on that task!

Don’t over do it in one day, you don’t need to do a hundred tasks plus your daily tasks, there are some days where all I will do is my basics and then maybe the next day I will do twice as much deep cleaning as what I was going to!

The kicker with the dust and dirt is unfortunately it’ll be there when you get to it. I have been waiting for little fairies to come and clean my house at night for years I have looked in every corner of my house looking for the easy Button, I can’t find it!

My point to the blog is it’s not always easy to find motivation, but there are things that you can do to help find that motivation!

So, if you’re feeling a little slugging get up off that couch and go make your bed, throw a load of laundry in and get those dishes put away!

Right there you will feel so much better, you will look around and find your motivation to get that nagging tasks done that you didn’t want too.

However, remember most big gross tasks once you get it done it’s done!

I hope this is help you find a little motivation the other days, let’s get our houses ready for summer and get ready to bust out start cleaning our yards LOL!

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I will have them linked down below. Until next week I hope you have a wonderful day, a fun weekend in the productive week.

Bye for now!

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