Keeping life simple.
I've been thinking on some other ways that we keep the house going with me being sick. Here are couple of things that can be used even if your not sick.
Let the kids drink water for most of the day. They don't need Kool-aid, milk or juice every time they are thirsty. When they do have it, it must be consumed at the table or outside. You won't have Kool-aid stains all over the place and franticly trying to clean it up.
BTW, don't buy beige carpet. I think beige carpet is from Satan! I don't know any home with small kids would have it. You know that the builders of these new homes for the family aren't the ones cleaning the carpets!! LOL
It is such a pain to clean and it always looks dirty. If you have small kids and are getting new carpet don't buy beige. Don't get real dark carpet either. It will show every little piece of lint and dirt. Look at places like church, doctor's offices, schools etc. and see what color they have. These high traffic areas are great to get color choices that won't show dirt.
Food is only eaten at the table or outside. There's no reason to be dragging food all over the house and cleaning up after it.
Stop nagging the kids, make their lives easier. Give them one comforter on top of their bed so that making it will be easy. They don't need a sheet and several blankets.
Get a basket for them to put their shoes in. They can't find them in the closet, won't put them on the rack or in a shoe bag. We have a wicker basket sitting by our stairs and everyone's shoes go in there. They know where they are and they are easy to get out. Every month or two I go in and sort out the ones that don't need to be in there like dress shoes or slippers. We use this mostly for shoes worn everyday.
Get rid of dressers and put their clothes on shelves. They never close the drawers and can't see what is in there. Put shelves up either in the closet or cubbies along the wall for their clothes. They can see at a glance what they have.
Take the closet doors down in their room. Put up an easy to close curtain or just leave it open. While they are little this will make it much easier for them to handle. My kids don't have any doors on their closets.
Keep only the blankets you really need on your bed. For us it's a sheet, blank and comforter, that's it.
Those are few tips to make life easier.
Tawra
Let the kids drink water for most of the day. They don't need Kool-aid, milk or juice every time they are thirsty. When they do have it, it must be consumed at the table or outside. You won't have Kool-aid stains all over the place and franticly trying to clean it up.
BTW, don't buy beige carpet. I think beige carpet is from Satan! I don't know any home with small kids would have it. You know that the builders of these new homes for the family aren't the ones cleaning the carpets!! LOL
It is such a pain to clean and it always looks dirty. If you have small kids and are getting new carpet don't buy beige. Don't get real dark carpet either. It will show every little piece of lint and dirt. Look at places like church, doctor's offices, schools etc. and see what color they have. These high traffic areas are great to get color choices that won't show dirt.
Food is only eaten at the table or outside. There's no reason to be dragging food all over the house and cleaning up after it.
Stop nagging the kids, make their lives easier. Give them one comforter on top of their bed so that making it will be easy. They don't need a sheet and several blankets.
Get a basket for them to put their shoes in. They can't find them in the closet, won't put them on the rack or in a shoe bag. We have a wicker basket sitting by our stairs and everyone's shoes go in there. They know where they are and they are easy to get out. Every month or two I go in and sort out the ones that don't need to be in there like dress shoes or slippers. We use this mostly for shoes worn everyday.
Get rid of dressers and put their clothes on shelves. They never close the drawers and can't see what is in there. Put shelves up either in the closet or cubbies along the wall for their clothes. They can see at a glance what they have.
Take the closet doors down in their room. Put up an easy to close curtain or just leave it open. While they are little this will make it much easier for them to handle. My kids don't have any doors on their closets.
Keep only the blankets you really need on your bed. For us it's a sheet, blank and comforter, that's it.
Those are few tips to make life easier.
Tawra
posted by Tawra Jean at 2:33 PM
1 Comments:
I wannna say a big "Amen" to your comments about carpet color!
We're planning to do what our fellow dog-loving friends say: The next time we get carpet, it's gonna be mud-colored! Here in the Midwest, we actually have a 5th season, as you know, since your family is now in Kansas: Mud Season.
I've also looked at the carpet at Church, and you're right--it doesn't show anything!! Just last month I watched a friend's spilled coffee disappear as if it had never been there. Same with other kinds of spills...but not in the fellowship hall, where the carpet is...yep...beige. Wow, is it a spotty, blotchy mess, despite everyone's best efforts! And the building is not that old.
Same story at our former church, until we got new carpet, in a similar pattern similar to our current church (blue/multi-colored) that hides everything. I remember pointing it out gleefully to my Sunday School little ones: "Look! Isn't this great?! It won't show ANYTHING we spill!" (And I didn't mean just them.) ;-)
Also--I'm gonna copy your idea about the basket on the table with wipe-up cloths. That's another great tip---thanks so much!
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