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EVENING ROUTINE..COUNT DOWN TO BED!

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Hi, good morning and welcome back to another routine blog here on Classy Classy By Kandis! 

I hope you are having a good routine day!

How did your day go?

It is funny how the day tends to fly by until the night time comes! The count down to bed is on, and all I want to do is get everyone in their beds and put my feet up! My nights tend to flop a lot on what I will be doing.

The biggest, best but hardest habit I find that I am in right now for bed time is that I AM JUST DONE!

Now I know how that sounds, so lets go back a little. My nights are that MINE lol. I am a stay at home mom of 4 kids, and they get exhausting!

I love having some me time here and here!

However with them homeschooling this year there is very little mom time! I use to and aim to have my nights be as productive as they can be, and my evening routine should help! I don’t like waking up to a messy house, ok my anxiety does not like it! If I can stick to my evening routine then it should make for a pretty smooth, and producive evening for me. My routines also run me a good chunk of time, as I have them set up for certain parts of the day!

Have you been following the routine blogs?

I will link the morning, and afternoon blogs here!

A GOOD DAY STARTS WITH A GOOD MORNING ROUTINE!

AFTERNOON ROUTINE.. DON’T FORGET THE COFFEE!

THE POWER OF A ROUTINE!

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MY EVENING ROUTINE!

I think my favorite routine is the evening some days, this is because I know that the day is winding down, and one more strong routine and the kids will be heading to bed, and I can go and relax.

The nice part is knowing that my house got tidies up for in the morning! I like finishing one day off, waking up to a clean-ish lol house to get ready for the next day!

My evening will run roughly 6 to 11 this is including my time!

What do I aim to get done in the evenings?

-supper

-food away

-tidy kitchen and wipe it down

-dishes

-kids zone clean

-bath/showers

-sweep

-vacuum if needed

-spot mop

-prep coffee for morning

-pull meat from freezer

-kids to bed

-ME TIME

That is what I try to do!

That is my last routine for the day!

I find if I can just get these last things done, it will set me up for a good morning. The last thing that I want to do is have to get up and finish cleaning the house from the day before.

There is sometimes where I won’t get my routine done, or not all of it. There is usually something going on in that case!

SETTING UP THE ROUTINE!

I find the evening can be a easier one to set up, sometimes it can be easy to try to over do it, but mostly it can be a easy one to set up!

Look around at your house!

What would you like to get done before you call it a night. Usually it will be just a couple pick up and set up for the next day.

Don’t try to do an entire day on one routine!

It will not work smoothly that way!

A night routine is one set out to help calm the house and prep yourself for the next day!

To get into the habit easier and to not get overwhelmed, do one task a night adding a new task on each night or every couple nights, to see what needs to be in that routine and to start making it a habit! Let me explain this one for a minute!

If you do your dished every night, find a certain time to do it, and do it every night, when the next week comes it will be something that will just fit into your routine.

Then you can add your next task, and so on till you have your routine chores figured out, and they are already becoming a habit. You will see a difference when you get up and ready for the next day!

A clean kitchen is addictive!

One chore at a time, one hourly block at a time, a routine will come and before you know it the hand full of chores is a habit.

There is also something that I had got from a lady that I love to follow on youtube… Happily A House Wife. She had said “try to do something tonight, that I will thank myself for in the morning.”

This is a great one, expecially if you are caught in a bit of a rut, if you are always on the go. How are your routines?

Do you use routines?

Have you started?

I hope you are liking the routine blog series. Make sure you give it a like, so I can keep doing blogs like this.

There is always room for a great routine. I hope you will follow the blog, put your email in to get noticied on new blogs, when they come out.

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Next blog is inspired by Jordan Page! It will be great after the routine blogs. I hope this blog has motivated you to smoothen out your routine!

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It will be fun!

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A GOOD DAY STARTS WITH A GOOD MORNING ROUTINE!

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Good morning, welcome back to Classy Classics By Kandis!

I have a fun set of blogs planned for this month! I hope you will join in for the routine blogs of September!

Are you a morning person?

I have always been a morning person! Well I always thought I was. I wasn’t the type to sleep all day, but with that it isn’t like I was up at silly hours before school, or before work.

Depending on how long ago you would like to compare. I started getting up much earlier after I had my kids. The more kids I had the earlier I got up. I assume its becuase the more kids I had the more there is to do lol. The issue with that is that then I have more to do it seems in a day, because I am up more in a day!

With having 4 children at home ages 11,9,3, and almost 2, there is always someone needing help. This year with we decided to keep the kids at home for schooling also. This one is new to me but I am so excited to beable to give it a try!

Comment down below if you kept your kids at home this year!

With having all the kids home all day now that has changed my morning by a 360! What better time then now to re due my moring routine. Our routines have been a little rough around the edges latley as I had no clue what was happening and no point in sketching out a routine for it to not work here.

So as much as it was not my style we just went through the basics of the time and made do of what we could with the time. Now that remote learning has started I feel we need to get our morning routine smoothed out.

A smooth morning can make the whole day I feel. It’s like making the bed in the morning, there is just some silly satifaction of it. So join me as I show you how I set up a morning routine and how to make it fit your morning needs. This will help keep the routine as help it become a habit vs a chore!

HOW TO SET UP A ROUTINE!

A problem that there is, is that a lot of people will want to strong rouine but don’t know how to set it up for their home. A lot of morning routines are the same, but there is always differences.

When someone is talking about their routine, a lot of the time one will just say “oh that would never work in this house” but then just stop!

This is where it will never come together then. After saying it would never work all you do is keep thinking lol. If it won’t work for you perfect, what will work for you?

There is so many different situations out there, so many different routines.

Think of a workout! How many different workout are there?

If not all will work for everyone, then how would a routine set to run YOUR house wok if it’s not set for YOUR house! Don’t get discouraged, just keep trying.

The first thing that I start with is a list!

What are the top things you do or try to in the morning? Work your way through the morning and put those chores in place.

Did you get all the things done?

This is where we play around. This is also only for the morning, work off of your hours not someone elses. This is also a place that will be your schedual. You are not going to use a full time working schedual if you are not working a out of house job. You feel me!

OK lets have some fun! Lets do our morning and see how it goes!

Didn’t get them done?

Didn’t have time?

Wasn’t the right time of day to do that chore?

Don’t want to do it 3 times a day?

These are all things to try to map out. If you are really stuck and just running in circles, sit down and make a hourly, as each hour go through in the morning, write down what was done. Then at the end of your morning look over it. This will give you an idea of what tasks can be done when.

A morning routine is just that a routine. It is something that is the same everyday! This is something that you will be able to get up and just get done. This will also help when it come time to skething out a block system!

STAY TUNED FOR THAT ONE!

Do some looking on pintrest for routines, but don’t try to just copy and run with someone elses routine. It won’t always work because it is just that someone elses routine. Writting out the routine and sticking to it! When you start making your routine, remember its yours! Make it as detailed as you need to start, this will just make to easier when you are writting out your morning chores. Get up, and do what you do, the catch here is either write down what you did each hour, or write down what you DID get done. Either way it will give you an outline to look at.

You can either make your routine on a paper that you write out yourself (like me) or you can print it off the computer. Make sure you have it in a sheet protector either way, you will also need a dry erase marker, you will love seeing all the tasks crossed off when you are done the morning routine.

When I start redoing any of my routines I like to so them one chore at a time!

So morning routine!

What is the first thing you do when you get up till the time you get lunch on, this is the goals you have for that time! Now this can be as detailed of a routine to as basic as it can be. Its all up to what you need. You can simply add more or take more away.

HOW DOES MY MORNING ROUTINE LOOK?

My morning routine is more of a detailed one, as it runs me until lunch. I have a morning routine that I have been working on for about a week, this is how I can make switches and change stuff without getting overwhelmed.

This is how it typically will go in the morning. This is when the kids start getting up, before the kids are up (which the little’s have been getting up really early!)

– make bed -get dressed -hair, teeth and wash face -work -breakfast – kids dressed/ready – kitchen clean up

-dishes

– start lundry

– quick house pick up

-zone cleaning or daily chore

This is a routine that I found will keep the morning chaos somewhat down! Some days they may be done in a certain order, but this is what I aim to get done before noon!

Other then some blogging work that is the what I aim to work on before the kids get up!

The daily chore I have started again, this is just a certain chore I try to do each day of the week. They are not zones or entire rooms, just a little task to keep some chores under control.

So for Monday’s, its to mop, tuedsya is tidy and clean toilet ect! AGAIN STAY TUNED FOR MORE ON THIS!

It is deffently a different year!

With having the kids doing school at home, the morning as deffintly not the same! With them needing a strong routine with their online schooling, I also need to work with them, and their school schedual.

Has your morning changed with the craziness of 2020?

Whether you are at home, back at the office, kids at home or at school a morning routine is a way to get the day off to a good start. Remember for all those reasons this is why I said that know ones mornings are the same. Know ones routines will be the same. It is your morning and your routine!

Have some fun with it, play around. Remeber there is more hours in the day then your morning routine. Depending on your situation there may be many routines in your day!

For myself I am at home, and so I have a morning, afternoon and a evening routine. With some other lists and scheduals still. lol.

Do you already have a morning routine?

Does it need to be changed up, need to switch some things due to the seasons changing or events or LIFE haha?

Wanting more routines?

I am needing and going to and starting working on my other zones! Have you cheched out the other blogs that went up to do with zones.

I’ll put a link to the other blogs here!

THE POWER OF A ROUTINE!

HOW I KEEP UP WITH THE HOUSE USING ZONE CLEANING!

Another week with routines!

THERE IS ALSO MORE OLDER ROUTINES ON THE PAGE!

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I will be starting new blogs on my routines!

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THE POWER OF A ROUTINE!

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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.

https://youtu.be/2BKuSlstIBM

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.

Planning Is Preparing

Weekly prep

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HOW I KEEP UP WITH THE HOUSE USING ZONE CLEANING!

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It is funny how it seems no matter how hard you try there is something to be done!There is someone that dropped a cracker, washed their hands, maybe came in from out side! I never knew how many corners there was until it came time for me to clean my own place.

I was never the worst at keeping calm in my house, however I was not the best either.. by far. I always wanted to have one the nice big pintrest worthy houses, and then I relized it will only look like that if we are not here lol. Well that won’t work!

There had to be a better way to get the house in order, and stay for even just a little. I have had many different cleaning habits through the 13 years I have been living with my husband.

The routines always were and still are changing, but just like trying to get those kids back into the habit of school, trying to get a new cleaning schedual and keeping it is just as hard lol.

When I had started with getting into finding better scheduals it was shortly after I had my 3rd kid. They were mom videos on youtube I had found, these would help me on days that I was:

over whelmed, feeling like not the best mamma, and when I could not seem to get my head in order, or figure out why I never seemed to be getting a head!

Ever feel like that?

Things just seem to blurr together, the dishes and just always there and I don’t want to think about the laundry lol.

Now, I know!

This is all parts of the pregnancy, and post partome is a vibe killer! There was just something about seeing it and finding it to realate to that was so interesting.

I have went through a couple different cleaning ways, some worked and some didn’t. I was am not one to spent my nice spring months deep cleaning, when I should be outside getting the yard and garden ready.

In saskatchewan our summers are short and I look forward to busting out of the house after a very long winter.

A couple years ago I sat down and tryed a cleaning system by “the flylady” its a zone cleaning design system!

Have you heard of the fly lady?

Have you heard of zone cleaning?

I hadn’t either, and it was a game changer for me!

Now, that I have had some BIG changes, I need to relook my zone cleaning.

The nice thing with this set up is it is all about you and your house! It can be switched, changed, added to or slowed down all depending on you!

Now I have croppeded this in a way that fits for me and my family. This is a system that is really a perfect guidline to help jump start my chaos! I found anyways.

There is so many people and places that follow the fly lady:

-Facebook

-Instargram

-Pintrest

– SO MUCH ON YOUTUBE

WHAT IS ZONE CLEANING?

This is really just a wonderful way to break your house up into… yap ZONES!

This allows you to hit all the spots in your house without trying to do it ALL in a day! This is a set up where you only really have to clean your “zone” for about 15 minutes a day!

The nice thing here also is it can be more or less time, you can take a hour on a day off to do it once a week, or however it fits in your schedual!

Every week you will work a zone, with the weeks in the month each week is a new zone!

What about half weeks?

Take the first and the last half week for the month and that is your week! You will have 5 zones for a month, to break up. Or however you feel to split up your cleaning!

In that week you can spend 10-15 minutes (or more or less) in your designated zone. These couple minutes are not for crazy cleaning, it is to see progress not perfection. This will allow you to chop at it over a week vs trying to do it in a day, or an hour.

Have you ever set a timer and see how much you can actually do in 10 minutes? It is more then you think you would.

I like to have a checklist of the daily and weekly chores to be done, then when my zone cleaning time comes I can look and go. You will not have the same time frame, or motivation for that matter everyday.

With having a list I can go off of I know I can reframe from getting lazy and just do the easy tasks everyday vs getting stuff off the list done. This is a way to keep up with deep cleaning to so you are not scrambling to get it done in the spring.

I don’t spring clean! I always thought it was silly as in Saskatchewan we spend 8 months inside I always do my “spring cleaning” in the winter months. January- March are my “spring cleaning” months here!

Do you spring clean?

Do you spring clean in the spring?

HOW TO SET UP YOUR ZONE CLEANING!

When you sit down with your paper, think about your house as if you were looking at in from the top down, or as if you were looking at the blue prints. The nice thing with this is it is to fit YOUR home, and YOUR cleaning!

Look at your house and what I always did anyways, and as I said I am needing to re doing my zones. This is a way I like to combine my rooms, so I am not bouncing around all over the house.

Example:

Zone 1- upstairs

Zone 2- living room & bathroom

Zone 3- bedroom

Zone 4- kitchen & bootroom

Zone 5- basement

Each week is a different zone, so each week you are hitting different areas of your home to declutter, organize and deep clean. I try to spend a little bit of time in the zone everyday, for 15 minutes.

This way I will not get as destracted when I get into a spot that is requiring maybe more tasks or different tasks! There is so many ways to fit the fly lady system into your schedual!

I am more excited to get back into the rhythm of having a good system that I know can work! There is so many different situations that no one persons schedual will fit everyone’s.

Take your time, think about your home, and your life when you try to get a schedual. Many times we will hope on line and search, get all excitied, write everything down, get all motivated then, a week later be right back where we started!

Don’t get discouraged!

Something that I learned with getting my own schedual sketched, and more so with my organizing coarses, is that like shoes and hobbies not everyone is the same! Your best friends schedual may not work for you but it might give you the motivation that you are looking for to get your running.

Habits take 21 days to form, so take your time, maybe make a list as you work. Figure out your schedual as you are doing it! I bet you have more habbits for a clean house then you think. When a habbit is formed you tend to do it without thinking about it. So chances are you have more of a cleaning routine of habbit then you think!

Make your goals!

Make your cleaning schedual!

Match up, move around, get creative see how much of the cleaning routine is already there and start slow.

Add ONE chore a day!

That is it ONE chore and at the end of 21 days I bet it will become habbit, and you will be on a roll!

I hope you liked the ZONE CLEANING BLOG!

Don’t forget the hit the like button on it if you enjoyed it!

There is more cleaning routine blogs coming.

Can’t wait for a new one cleaning routinr (coming soon) check out some older cleaning blog posts!

Morning Routine with 4 Kids And Coffee!

After School Routine Trying To Do It!

Weekly prep

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