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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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Good morning welcome back to another blog on Classy Classics By Kandis!

How was your week last week?

Did you have a good Valentine’s Day?

Did you get a chance to read thevalentine’s blog? I’ll link it here!

VALENTINE’S DAY FUN

You know it’s funny because I was cleaning up today they found a couple presents for my daughter under my desk so I guess she gets extra presents this weekend!

I think she will be excited about it haha mom moment!

Can you believe it’s the end of February?

I got all my valentine’s decorations down, and am cleaning corners and dusting cobwebs! Have you started spring cleaning?

I’ll also leave that link here!

CLEANING CORNERS!

I think it went by really really fast oh, the point where I now have my seed starts out and I’m going to start couple of my plants!

I have my pictures of my seed starting at the bottom of the blog for you to look at how I started them this year oh, well some of my seeds this year!

In Saskatchewan I have to probably start stuff different than what are other provinces might!

With garden season sitting close to 12 weeks away there are a couple plants I need to get started now!

The seeds then I’m going to start this week my watermelon, brussel sprouts, peppers, banana peppers, broccoli, cauliflower and my cantaloupe!

This is also when you start celery I don’t know if I’m going to pre-start salary this year I have to actually finish points are my seeds first!

I actually just found a new way to organize my seeds I seen it on a garden group on Facebook!

It was using an old photo album and you know I have one that is not in you so I think I’m going to try! I will of course but it in a post when I try! I do have a cute seed container I got from the dollar store, that works great right now!

I really look forward to our next season this year oh, it was a crazy year and I look forward to challenging myself to see what I can do for a garden again this year!

Last year my garden was crazy fast put in, it was challenging to keep up with it last year I did it and it turned out pretty good, but this year I am excited about getting at the garden and seeing just how great it can be this year!

One of the blogs from the other garden years!

Growing A Garden!

I have a year that I have gardened in the spot now, so there’s definitely some things that I know that I didn’t know and some things that I would like to try that I didn’t get a chance last year!

Ideally when I look at the calendar I would like to have my garden ready to go by May long usually it’s the end of may!

I only say the end of me because it’s been years since we’ve actually been able to get a garden in May long!

They used to put gardens in my May long all the time and the weather is be changing so much through the last 10 years that it’s easier try to get a garden in that early anymore, so I do try to give myself a little bit of wiggle room and so I don’t get as ancy when garden season comes so I tell myself by the end of may!

HOW TO START SEEDS INDOORS:

The first thing you have to do is figure out what you were going to start your seeds in!

I start my seeds in egg cartons! They are put in fruit containers that act like a little greenhouse and then they just get transplanted with the egg carton still right into a bigger pot and then from that pot it goes into the ground! This is so I’m only actually transplanting those small little roots once!

I do have a heated starter that I got for my birthday last year, and with this I don’t put eggshells in it because it just has the black plastic holders! These are just dirt, that will get transferred straight into pots!

Another thing that I like to do when starting seeds is when you are putting their seeds in I always try to mix some hair and egg shells!

This round didn’t get any eggshells because I didn’t actually have any eggshell set aside for some reason, but I have some going now so that I can have egg shells from when I do my other seeds and when I do my transplanting to my bigger pots!

The hair I know sounds weird but, the protein in the hair makes it great for seeds! I have some hair from my boys hair cut last year that I just bagged and put into my garden box! You do want to try to have un died hair so there is no toxins going into the soil and seeds!

WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR SEEDLINGS!

What do you do with your seedlings after you have all of these plants going?

After a couple weeks when your sprouts are beginning to get ready to start transplanting, I will start thinning them out only strong seedlings can stay, and then maybe get transplanted into next bigger size pots!

This is where you start getting a lot of stuff right now is when you don’t have these little squares you have tons of pot’s with plants!

I will use any window sill that I have, actually just moved a desk into my youngest kids room so that I can use the top of the desk in front of the window!

In my house if there’s a place that sunlight hits that’s where a plant goes! It’s hard because none of our plants in Saskatchewan can even start going out for another 2 1/2 months!

So if you live in Saskatchewan or someplace really cold make sure you are only starting plants that you have room for and make sure that you remember that you can spread out your starting of seeds!

So, something’s get started 12 weeks early something’s get started 8 weeks early most things only get started 6 to 4 weeks early!

My point so make sure you sketch out your plans and make sure you have the time frame but you have to space and don’t overdo it! Trust me it’s really easy to start them but, then all of a sudden you look around and you have a hundred plants into trying to find room for!

This actually happens a lot easier than what one would think it happens to me every year you think I would learn by now!

That is how I am starting my seeds this year!

Are you starting seeds this year?

Do you have a big garden?

When do you start your garden?

Gardens are so much fun they are definitely worth it in the end with they are definitely so much work!

Here is a link from last years garden blog!

The Garden and How Its Growing

Give yourself a little space, give yourself some time, give yourself a little pep talk and you will be loving garden food!

I hope you enjoyed this blog I’m starting seeds, I’ll love this time year! I’m sure you follow the other social media post there is more post and fun tips and tricks on starting seeds and lots more garden and summer fun coming! I will course leave those links down below to Facebook and Instagram, I hope you will come and join me over there to there for lots of fun!

So until next week have a great day, a wonderful weekend and work and a productive week!

Bye for now!