Post-Christmas Goals

All of us are home today except for my husband.  I'll work tomorrow but he'll be home.  We're having company this weekend for a few days -- friends we usually have over for New Year's!  I'm excited.

I'm sooo not motivated today -- I want to tuck back into bed, which is sad considering the amount of sleep I've been able to catch up on over the last few days.  I really just need to martial us all together and get some things done.  And still manage to have fun and lots of free time.  :)

So...  goal-making time? 

1. Get WHB (weekly home blessing per Flylady) chores done
1. Vacuum (just the middles)  IN PROGRESS -- downstairs done!
2. Dust (just the highlights)
3. Change sheets
4. Purge magazines
5. Empty trash -- DONE!  Did this yesterday including the kitty litter!
6. Glass & Mirror (highlights) DONE!  Kids did it :)
7. Mop  Kitchen is DONE!  I did it :)
2. Dailies
1. Dishes
1. Empty dishwasher and drainer  DONE!  I did it!
2. Put in or wash all dirty dishes around kitchen and common areas  Working on -- I had a lot of dirty pots and pans... almost all done now, big cooking day yesterday :)
2. Laundry -- Make sure everyone has clean clothes
1. Every hour, reboot the laundry  NEED TO UPDATE THIS
2. Wash clothes for anyone who doesn't have clean clothes
3. Wash bedlinens for DS
4. Ensure clean towels in all bathrooms
3. Trash -- DONE!
4. Clutter
1. Sweep all common areas -- get kids to pick up and put away anything they want to keep from the piles  DONE!
2. Sort all odds and ends into purple baskets and have each kid empty theirs and return the empty baskets
5. Paper -- Spend 10 minutes sorting a pile or box of papers until I'm caught up :)
3. Declutter areas -- My room!
1. Hope chest
2. Dresser
3. Chair
4. Area by Tim's side of bed
5. My nightstand
6. Short bookshelf
7. Tall bookshelf
8. Tall chest
9. Area in front of closet  WORKING ON
10. Floor DONE!
4. Kids' rooms -- oy are these a mess again or what?!
1. Which rooms
1. DS #1's room  DONE FOR TODAY
2. DD's room  DONE!
3. DS #2's room  DONE FIRST!  WHATTA CHAMP!
2. What items -- sort into piles and put away
1. Clothing
1. Clean --> dresser/closet
2. Dirty --> hamper
2. Toys --> toy bin
3. Books --> book shelf
4. Desk stuff (papers, art & school supplies, coins, photos) --> desk
5. Trash  --> trash can or bag -->empty this when done
6. Elsewheres -- things that go in another room --> put in hamper and take to FR couch
5. Dinner
1. Plan what to make
2. Purchase anything we need
3. Make it

Kids can help with most of these areas -- not my room though!

Update:  1:50 pm -- Bipolar kid is throwing a massive tantrum.  In response, I'm not behaving so well either.  Other two kids, behaving wonderfully.  Everyone is pitching in.  Why does it have to be WWIII?

Update:  4:24 pm -- All kids settled down, then got some stuff done, then son threw another massive tantrum and other son threw one too.  Both sons have lost screen time and are in their rooms.  Son #1 also did a piercing terroristic high-pitched lengthy scream, so his iPod is in an indeterminate time-out pending some good behavior on his part.  And he threw a book.  Not a stellar mommy day.  DD is behaving under the radar right now but I'm not sure how much she's really getting done and how much she's stirring the other two pots.  The thing that kills me is that we had their rooms and the playroom clean one week ago, and had the common areas picked up yesterday without stuff on the floors. They knew we were going to have to do ths again soon.  They're all like, "Why do we have to vacuum and wipe glass?  Why do we have to pick up stuff off the floor?"  I'm all like, "When you have a home, you have to vacuum and wipe and mop about once a week at least, and you have to take care of your stuff and keep it off the floor every day.  If you didn't put it on the floor, you wouldn't have to pick it up from there."  Sigh.