Don't get me wrong, I'm not obsessive when it comes to the neatness of my house (after all, I have 2 boys and a husband), but for certain things I feel I possess traits for OCD.
With a husband that travels for months at a time, a full time teaching job, and two young boys with MANY activities, cleaning my house is not my highest priority. I would love to hire someone to do it, and I have in the past, but I find they don't do it my way...and that bothers me. So in order to stay sane with my crazy weekday life and not have to devote one of my weekend days to just cleaning, I have created a list to keep me on track.
I have devoted certain chores to each day of the week in order to keep my house clean (completely different from orderly!).
Click on this to see my chart:MY WEEKLY CHORES
Oh, by the way, I'm a little obsessed with cute fonts and color....maybe I am a little OCD!
I start my chores for the day when the kids are already in bed so they don't go behind me and make things dirty again. When I'm done, I get my reward....dessert and a guilty pleasure TV show like Gossip Girl or Vampire Diaries (yes, I'm a teenager trapped in an adult body!).
Here are some other ideas from moms that I really like:
- Organizing Your Way: a [life...your way] blog shared ways to make your cleaning routine your own.
- Megan Francis of The Happiest Mom shares her ways that she keeps the house clean daily.
Alexis
