First things first, all mornings:
- Get up and wake kids 1 and 2. Oversee their getting ready for and off to school.
- Get kid 3 up, ready, and off to school (no matter who is actually driving him).
- Get myself dressed including shoes. No arguments. (Flylady thing.)
- Brush teeth.
- Take meds.
- Eat breakfast. Must be quick and nutritious. Think: bowl of cereal, not toaster pastry or McDs.
- Pop a load of laundry into the washer.
- Empty the dishwasher and dish drainer. (Or run the dw if hasn't run the night prior.)
- Put all dishes in the sink or dishwasher.
- Pick up all scattered laundry and put it in a hamper.
- Sweep floor.
- Quickly put anything which belongs in a different room in a box or hamper.
- Throw away any obvious trash.
- Do a quick swish & swipe of the main bathroom.
- Check all phone messages and return calls.
- Check all email and return some.
- Open any mail waiting for me and act on anything I can do in 2 min or less.
- Start projects and actions.
- Consult list of errands and run them.
- Bank?
- P.O.?
- Library?
- Grocery?
- Pharmacy?
- Target/Walmart?
- Pick one Weekly Home Blessing task (Flylady) and do it. (I do these one at a time rather than all on one day at one time. Mostly because I work.)
- Change sheets.
- Take out trash.
- Vacuum rugs.
- Mop.
- Dust.
- Clean glass/mirrors.
- Throw out outdated magazines.
- Paper Pile -- pick one:
- Throw away 27 papers.
- Spend 15 minutes sorting through per Stephanie Winston's TRAF:
- Toss
- Refer
- Act
- File
- Exercise.
- Pick one
- Zone decluttering (Flylady) -- look up current zone on Fly site, and declutter in it for 15 minutes
- Do one room my way (see older Cleaning posts)
- FACE -- this it the $ stuff, based on Flylady but my way of doing it
- Updating budget book with current transactions.
- Paying due bills.
- Dinner --
- What is for dinner?! Start anything you can right now (thaw, marinate, crock pot).
- Plan what time to start cooking and make an appt w/ myself.
- Holidays -- work the lists
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