A LITTLE GOES A LONG WAY!

3rd May 20213rd May 2021 classyclassicsbykandisLeave a comment

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!

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

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FINDING BALANCE!

23rd Apr 202126th Apr 2021 classyclassicsbykandis3 Comments

Good morning happy Monday! Welcome to another week!

How is your week last week?

Have we been getting through spring cleaning and getting ready to bust outside, we had a fire ban on here in Saskatchewan and then it snowed overnight!

I’m not sure if spring is here yet! Well calendar wise yes, weather sometimes lol!

The last couple weeks I’ve been finding myself a little disappointed in myself!

I am a stay-at-home mom of 4 kids, 2 that go to school and 2 that still stay at home. I have been married for 15 years!

I have been struggling the last couple weeks to find balance in all of my stuff.

Let me explain this to you, it’s does not have to do with how my house chores and/or role that I play in this house, I have been trying to focus on getting back onto my meal planning and fitness!

Oh, have you noticed that prices of groceries are going up? I have noticed that it’s hard to get everything that you need, and be able to afford it the same time.

This is one thing that I’ve been trying to get better with again is being a much more frugal home-based mom. I had really thrived with this before for my third pregnancy and some into my fourth pregnancy!

After the move that we did, things got a little hard and I tended to pull from a box a lot more, this is a hard habit to get back into this planning and not pull from that box or just make macaroni!

Another thing that I feel that I am lacking in is health of myself! I struggled with my weight for many years this is not something that has been traumatizing to me but I am very proud that I had never been in as good shape as I am now and I’ve had four kids and being out of school for over 10 years, I had found a lot of excitement of working out and eating better when my second child was younger!

And, now I’m sitting here I can hardly get myself to drink water, I had done some workouts the other month, trying to get into it again and the only time that I kind of have motivation and time to be able to do it at night!

This is fine except for summer is coming and it’s really hard to do that when you have little kids and an entire family with summer coming!

So I’ve been kind of hard on myself not knowing how to achieve my stuff blah blah blah.

I then decided,you know what my third kid is going to start play school soon my last kid still takes naps, and so I feel then I should not be trying to push myself to the point where I feel so bad that I can’t do it not because I’m just too lazy but I am busy right up till like 9:30 at night.

So instead of being angry with myself I’m trying to take a different spin on it.

I thought I would focus little more on basic health!

With this set of trying to force myself to workout until the time is right I really that sounds like an excuse but…

I thought I would try to focus on my water intake and simply just work on some stretching, and to try to really focus on what I am eating!

To eat healthy is something that I’m trying to work on. I am a fairly active mom obviously chasing 4 kids. However remember the kicker is that abs are actually made in the kitchen!

It is really hard for me to try to start something and not go full in, I’m trying to focus on the little things to make my way to the big things!

It’s just the time of the season for the kids and myself and I have to keep in mind with in a couple years it’s all going to be different again! They will not always be here and my babies!

With new goals for a bit, as summer is rolling in, I am excited about trying to take a step back on everything, fold a couple towels to put down for now and take it slower!

What are some clean eating foods you like?

I think it’s fun trying new easy foods, to get the ball rolling!

Hope you liked the blog! Want some healthy motivation?

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FINDING MOTIVATION!

19th Apr 202118th Apr 2021 classyclassicsbykandisLeave a comment

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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SPRING FAVORITES!

12th Apr 202111th Apr 2021 classyclassicsbykandis7 Comments

Hi, good morning! I’m glad you are here for another blog! I am too excited for spring to “actually” get here! With spring comes for fun, more outside more dirt and grim!

I thought I would use this week to show you some of my favorite spring go to things! As a busy mom of 4 Kids oh, there is always something happening, there is always mud being tracked in, one kid wants to do this one kid wants to do that!

This would all be fine except for my last two kids are still a little young! With being 4 and 2 years old they can’t quite just go and play yet unsupervised!

And so when I need to split up and conquer there are definitely some cool go to things that I have really became dependant on this time of the year! I absolutely love spring we get to bust of the house we get to go and play in puddles we get to just not be in the house 24/7, but with that comes even more!

It can sometimes be easier just to stay in the house get your stuff done have your routines and continue on with your Merry way!

However, this is not reality and the kids need to be outside once in awhile out of my hair!

So how do you balance play time and my time!

How do you get all of your stuff done, when there’s just a bigger mess being tracked in!

I definitely have a couple go to spring cleaning and organizing tricks that I would be helpful for anybody who enjoys playing in springtime!

The first thing that I have considered a necessary tool for the house, is having a spot for all of the kids has messy muddy stop to come in between play times!

Another thing that I find of an important is having a quick go to way to get some of that dirt off the floor before it gets tracked all over the entire house!

With this I have really come to love Robo vacuum and my Swiffer Sweeper!

These items are awesome because the robo vacuum I will set up an vacuum my house as we are outside playing, and like Swiffer Sweeper I love because I can just do a really really quick sweep and it will collect all of that dirt and it won’t get scattered as quick for the house!

Another thing that I I am obsessed over right now is the Norwex dusting mitt, and the dusting set!

These are wonderful the dusting that you can just put it on your hand walk around and just everything as fast as what you think, and as for the cleaning cloth set I love this to because all you need is water and I can follow along with my window cloth to do a streak free shine on the Windows!

This makes it great because I can dust top to bottom with two cloth and just walk out the door when done! There is no harsh chemicals and there is no leftover streets because you were only using water!

I recently bought a spin mop also and it’s great! I line that my floors are not streaky and very little water is left on the floors! It hold on to crumbs and works nice for us! I use just a vintage and water mix!

I also have a small bissell vacuum that can be used also as a hand vacuum! This is nice because it’s not big and heavy! This makes doing small areas or even the stairs so much easier!

When it comes to me getting spring ready I have to say I’m trying to get more me time in!

When I feel my hair needs a little extra care, I like going to some of my Monat products! I love the replenish hair masqueon days that my hairs is really need some extra love and hydration!

I also love the berry exfoliating scrub! This really helps break all the grime and dirt on my face and it takes 5 minutes that is it, it’s truly a great thing! There’s a new thing out with Monat that is the scalp scrub, then I think is very exciting because we can forger that we need a spring cleaning too!

These are definitely a handful of my favourite products right now! I definitely have a couple other cleaning tools that I am in love with, but I’m not using on necessarily a daily base!

If you want to see more of my cleaning tools, or my cleaning tips and tricks make sure check out some of the other social media pages.

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Until next week an amazing day, a wonderful weekend and a productive week!

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VALENTINE’S DAY FUN

15th Feb 2021 classyclassicsbykandis2 Comments

Hey good morning happy Monday! Always welcome back to another blog on Classy Classics By Kandis.

How was your week?

Can you believe that January is gone already?

Why didn’t 2020 go this fast? Right!

Are you excited for Valentine’s Day? Do you do special stuff for Valentine’s Day?

I think Valentine’s Day might definitely look a little different this year!

And, just like Christmas I decorated early, and I definitely put a bit up! Valentine’s Day tends to be a pretty big deal in this house as my daughter’s birthday is on Valentine’s Day! We definitely decorate for valentine’s day here lol!

This year it’s definitely a little different we can’t send any baked goods to school so sad, we are just sending Valentine cards which have to actually be there by the 8th so that the school has time for all of the cards to sit for the restricted amount of time to have the kids be able to have them out on the 12th on Friday!

So, this year we’re not doing any extreme school baking I always love sending Valentine’s treats I did the cheesiest things!

I’ll actually we won’t link down below on some of my past Valentine fun!

Make sure you check out those fun creations throughout the other Valentines!

I thought I would show you some of the super fun cute decorations that I ended up doing this year just to try to bring in some love to the house.

I also decorated early because one I was done with Christmas but I wasn’t done with decorations oh, I actually turned our Christmas tree into our first ever Valentine’s tree which was total inspiration from LoveMeg over on YouTube!

I also decided to not take off break between Christmas and Valentine’s Day because my husband is actually getting ready to leave and so I thought it would be nice for him to see the decorations as long as he could because when he comes back the first round of being gone it’ll be just before Valentine’s Day!

I thought I would decorate early so that we could all enjoy it more instead of him just seeing it for one weekend he now got to see it for like a whole month hahaha!

It definitely kind of helps that Valentine’s Day is on a Sunday this time oh, and that there’s a holiday on that Monday!

So, if you are excited about seeing some really cute little decorations let’s go ahead and take you around and see what I have this year!

Most of the stuff I had already but, lots of it I definitely picked up some this year it all came from the Dollar Tree except for one piece that I bought at Michaels because it was 40% off and really cute!

Here we go then let’s take a look at how my house looks or Valentine’s Day ! Remember please give this blog awake if you enjoyed the little Valentine’s to tour, hopefully it will give you some motivation to put some love around your house!

That is my house this year!

Not to shabby, I think valentine’s day is one if my favorites!

It is just so cute, all the love, hugs and kisses what is there not to love!

I hope you enjoyed the valentine’s blog! I would love to hear what you do for valentine’s day?

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SUNDAY PREP RESET MY THE WEEK!

25th Jan 2021 classyclassicsbykandis2 Comments

Hi good morning, welcome back to Classy Classics By Kandis.

How is your week?

I hope you had a good week! January is going good,, working on some goals vamping your routines?

Every week that I sit down and I get ready for the next week! I thought this blog I would take you a long so you could get ready for the week and see how we get ready for the week in this house!

Do you do a weekly reset day? The nice thing about a recent day is it can be any day that you have trying to reset for your following week!

This is something that I have done for years now and I am so happy I do! I had first really jumped into the bigger week prep after seeing I’m a video from Sam off of Happily a housewife! She is one of my favourite YouTubers and I have been watching her for years now!

With the kids going back to school they started a couple weeks ago now, noticed that I wasn’t doing the same weekly reset obviously is that I was doing! With that it changes to lots right because of the age and seasons in the time of year but no matter what I know I like to do some sort of a weekly reset or a Sunday prep day as I call it because it’s always on a Sunday it just really helps my week run as smooth as what I can possibly try to make it!

Like I said you can do it any day that you have the time to prep your week! If all you have is a Wednesday free go ahead and use your Wednesday to prep your week! The whole point about a weekly reset is that you can make your next week run as smooth and stress-free as what kind of can!

When it comes to my weekly reset there are some of the things that I always tried to get done!

I will usually try to get fruit and veggies washed and sliced put into containers into the fridge for the kids lunches through the week!

I tend to make bread on Sundays!

Any extra products that need to be made like my laundry detergent, fabric softener, baby wipes anything of that sort I’ll try to get made up on Sunday also!

I will try to get laundry that’s upstairs the kids laundry sorted and ready to go for the week oh, any clothes that is folded and needing to get put away we try to get them put away that day!

Also this is the day that the kids are asked to get their rooms cleaned up, wipe down and vacuumed!

Sundays are also a day that I will make sure that my planner is finished and ready to go, I will start to do some planning for the next week in it!

One more thing that I will try to do on Sunday if I have time and ambition, is to get a shower in and wash my hair and do a hair mask! This makes my hair feels so great and just ready for the week! I use the replenish Masque from Monat!

Have you ever heard of the company Monat? I’ll also leave a link below it’s a great company I will do a different blog again more about it later!

These are some of the typical things that I will do on my Sunday, as I have chores that usually do on certain days through the week!

If you want to know more about mine daily tasks give this blog a thumbs up and we will go through daily chores just as the way that I keep up with some of the chores between my zone cleaning and deep cleaning!

I find the weeks that I can do my Sunday prep as strong as what I can, my week tends to be not as chaotic and my stress doesn’t go up quite as fast! They’re of course or weeks that none of this gets done and I definitely feel the effects of it starting Monday all the way through Friday LOL!

I hope you enjoyed this blog about my Sunday reset, I hope it gave you a little bit of motivation to start a prep day in your house!

The prep does not have to be big it does not have to be exhausting, it is merely just to get what you think needs to be done to make your week smoother.

Make sure to go ahead and give this blog a like if you enjoyed it, I look forward to doing more blogs like this in the 2021 year as this year is all about just being strong and getting back to a smoother house!

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KEEPING CHRISTMAS SIMPLE

7th Dec 2020 classyclassicsbykandis1 Comment

Hi, good morning. Welcome back to classy classics by Kandis. I hope everything went good last week.

Did you get a chance to read last week’s blog about the hot chocolate and coffee station?

We are for sure enjoying it this week!

Finally, I’ve got some hot chocolate in for the container. It was kind of hard to find this year as I will only buy it from bulk barn because you can get twice as much for the same price and why not use the same container if not a cuter one.

We were going to try to really enjoy the hot chocolate station and just a fun joys of Christmas this year.

HOT CHOCOLATE AND COFFEE STATION!

Everything has been pretty crazy this year and then it happens and didn’t get any easier. Remember in April, it was supposed to just turn around to be joke on us. Happy Fool’s Day. Then it never did, there is so much still up in the air this year. With things not turning around, the world still going crazy and things being deemed non essential at the worst time of year. We did luck out here and nothing has been closed or roped-off or whatever is going on, all of our stores are still open.

This is one of the reasons of why I tried to get all of my Christmas shopping done as early as I could.

This year I am having different thoughts and I feel that we should just try to keep it as simple as we can I am bring back the joy of Christmas.

Working out the list, making sure each kid didn’t have more presents or know one had more stuff! Making sure the tinsell is perfect, trying to make sure everything is just perfect.

As I was making my first round of cookies, stay tuned for that recipe, this year there was so much extra stress added to stuff.

All of a sudden It’s December 1st, I know if I have a lot of stuff done more than what I even give myself credit for I am still just going crazy. With the kids at home all the time, and just the extra stuff happening, I’m not sure exactly how to do Christmas this year.

So, I decided to just take a step back and we’re going to just do a basic Christmas. With not do any Christmas trays this year and not as much to give out, also not doing my Christmas cookie giveaway, I’m trying to figure out how to keep all of my Christmas traditions going but with keeping them going with just the family.

So how am I trying to do Christmas this year?

What I am trying to do to keep Christmas as fun as I can with the kids?

I’m not the best one to always invite the kids to come and help the bigger ones sure get in here and come roll some cookie dough, with the little ones can be harder.

I got all of my Christmas decorations done in November this year of course waiting till after Remembrance Day.

Did you see that blog about?

The holiday prep in the house, I’ll leave the link here.

START TO HOLIDAY PREP!

We had fun the kids had a lot of questions for me on that one. Why am I taking pictures of this why am I taking pictures of that?

My kids have seemed to be harder this year and I think that’s because they have been home you guys since March. I am really enjoying having them here tho, and I’m hoping that they can experience the joy of bringing Christmas into the house!

My son’s birthday was December 4th and with trying to do Christmas and now his birthday cake, which I have never not made my kids a birthday kid.

There is definitely a couple things on my plate to do this week but with having most of Christmas done, why not be able to bring some Christmas spirit and some of the Christmas tradition of his birthday being in December to the house right now.

His birthday I’m sad for him because he just wants to invite a bunch of friends because he doesn’t go to school so, he doesn’t see them as much and I had to explain to him. He really really good at understanding you guys I can not ask for a better kid to understand why he can’t invite his friends that he hasn’t seen since spring time to his birthday party.

I have to be very thankful that he has understood the concept and that he is willing to be okay with it. That’s a hard thing to do for a little boy’s 10th birthday.

So with the signs put up and the tensile hung we still have to give it tree. We haven’t yet because we hadn’t decided if we were going to do a real tree or fake tree.

What do you guys do you do a real tree?

So every year for the last 10 years we have done a real tree. Last year, we did a fake tree because it’s hard for us to get out and get a tree because of my husband’s accident. So we were going to do a real tree this year because we have we didn’t last year and that’s a hard thing to swallow.

However, another thing is is we have a wood stove in our living room and our Christmas tree with really last long it would last maybe 2 weeks, which is fine, but I kind of want a Christmas tree up longer than that, especially this year. Now Christmas is right around the corner anyways!

You guys I just want my Christmas tree and I want it to stay like that without having pine needles spread across my house within one week.

I don’t mind the mess that a real tree makes because it looks so nice. They make everything so nice and Christmassy but thats a bit of work for my Christmas tree to be dead week or two.

I should say that’s a little hard for me to try to do on the year that I’m trying to make Christmas a great traditional simple family fun, love year.

So with most of my stuff done, decorating and gift like that’s all that I have done. You guys don’t get me wrong when I say I’m done because I’m not. But, for the next couple weeks I do get to just hang out enjoy the tensile and enjoy baking cookies with my kids.

We are going to still have lots of cookies in the house this holiday, I’m making my kid his cake.

I started Thursday then, I’ll finish making it on Friday and actually I am making him his own pumpkin pie to.

Pumpkin pie is his favourite he will pick that kind over any other any day of the year. I hope you’re following I have a couple different recipes coming up next week.

On the blog I will have a black forest cake and gingerbread cookie recipes on next week’s blog with maybe . I have too see how the week goes lol.

I hope you enjoyed this week’s blog on just how I’m trying to keep Christmas a little more simple!

Are you doing a smaller Christmas this year or are you trying to are you doing bigger Christmas this year?

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AFTERNOON ROUTINE.. DON’T FORGET THE COFFEE!

28th Sep 202026th Sep 2020 classyclassicsbykandis4 Comments

Hello and good morning!

Welcome back to Classy Classics By Kandis!

How did your morning go?

This week has been just crazy in my house! The kids are all home, and we are trucking along on the remote learning! My house is still standing, I have not pulled out all my hair, plus my dishes are done!

Well at least for now they are haha.

Its funny how the afternoon was used for before whether it is when the older kids were smaller, or when they at school. I don’t know what the year will entail, all I know is that I still need a solid afternoon routine!

I have always been a routine girl, well since I became a full time at home mom, and my routines deffinlty got stronger as we had more kids. There is something about the afternoon that makes the day just go bye fast! I find that the afternoon is a very mixed time, between either getting the other chores done when the littles are napping, or maybe trying to put my feet up.

The afternoon is a time where if I blink my day is done and now im struggling. It is strange to know and see the effects of routines when I had slowed down on them.

I have been redoing my routines, these past weeks! I started with my morning routine, then afternoon, evening then the block system!

Did you catch the morning routine blog?

I will leave a link here if you did not catch it!

A GOOD DAY STARTS WITH A GOOD MORNING ROUTINE!

I find a morning routine is where I needed to start in trying to get my chaos under control! There was a big gap of summer break and the uncertanty of what was happening that made a lot of stress here!

Let me tell you a little bit about my house and why I am on board fully with routines, and why I love them and rely on them!

I am a stay at home mom of 4 kids! 11,9,3 1/2 and 1 1/2 year old! We have decided to keep the older kids home, to do schooling here.

There is just always someone needing something, telling on someone, crumbs EVERYWHERE, and just so much happening. I decided to go full force on routines a couple years ago, it was before we were expecting the 3rd, and now…. I love my routines and I tend to get a little ancy, little stressed and a little stretched when I don’t have my routines happening!

MY AFTERNOON ROUTINE

I try not to have as much on my list for the afternoon!

Well not as many but maybe bigger tasks. My afternoon runs me roughly from 12 to 5 lets say. There isn’t really to much of a time on this because naps are in the afternoon. I LOVE NAP TIME! Thought I should point that out lol.

My routine will be more of:

-lunch

-clean up

-wipe the kitchen

-dishes

-sweep

-kids down for nap

-zone cleaning or to finish a task (there is some stuff that is easier at nap)

-finish schooling

-kids have a afternoon (after school) routine

-prep supper

Then that will kinda be wrapping up the afternoon!

Like I said my afternoon does not include any new tasks. If I am looking to clean the van, or work downstairs ect. Thses are the tasks that can be easier at nap.

Just like in the morning routine, your routine might not look like anything of mine. You may not even have a afternoon routine. Maybe its just a afterschool routine, the routines are there if it is what YOUR house needs.

Do you have a afternoon routine?

What is your afternoon set for?

There is so many versions of a routine the sky is the limit! With a strong morning routine, I find that my afternoon is not as fast paste! With how the house is going with the schooling here I am finding it more important then ever to try to schedual my days to the fullest.

HOW TO CREATE THE ROUTINE

When I start sketching out my afternoon routine it can fall into place easier then the other routines I find as it is almost just the filler time.

I had made my morning routine, then when I did the afternoon, just as the others for about a week I do what I am doing and make a list of what was done in the afternoon. Then I would get a feel for what could or should be done.

With knowing what fits best into my afternoon routine then I could crop one out on paper! I find that a week is a good time frame for it, as a lot of stuff can come up in a week.

So if there is going to be a task that would work better another time, you will see it.

Make your schedual work with you, but be flexable enough to work with the schedual! Make sure you have your time frame out so you know what you are working with.

Don’t worry if your routine is not like other.

OTHERS ARE NOT YOU!

YOU ARE YOU!

YOUR ROUTINE IS YOURS!

Maybe your afternoon routine is to tidy up, nap, shower and get ready to go! Just make sure when you are making the routine you know the time frame to be working in, this is so you don’t over book yourself but, you still are getting what you need done!

More on that statement coming with the block system!

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No matter on the type of routine that you are creating, it is set for what you will need to keep what you need done! does, whether its one of five of them.

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