The Heart of Your Home – Getting Organized

Getting Organized:
In your home and homeschool

 

Last week I talked about the importance of family meal time. One way to help you with daily meal preparation is to have a clean kitchen when you are ready to cook. Once a month, we detail clean in the kitchen. The rest of the month, we clean daily by wiping things down, doing the dishes, and putting them away. I have a meal prep area that is disinfected daily. I shine my sink each night before I go to bed. When it is time to detail clean in the kitchen, I am not starting with a kitchen in a wreck. I can spend 15 minutes moving things around on my counters and wiping them down. I can spend 15 minutes cleaning out my refrigerator because I spend 5 minutes each week throwing out leftovers before I go grocery shopping. I can spend 15 minutes cleaning out a cabinet or drawer because we are putting things away daily. By working in small steps, it makes detail cleaning easier each month when you are working in a zone. The kitchen is the heart of your home. Take care of it, so you can bless your family with meals.

 


Zone Missions:  Kitchen

Monday – Declutter Counters and Wipe Down
Tuesday – Clean out Pantry for 15 minutes
Wednesday – Clean out Refrigerator
Thursday – Wipe out Microwave
Friday – Declutter 1 Other Area in the Kitchen
 

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Home:
  • Make Your Bed (Do this as soon as you get up.)
  • Get Dressed Down to Your Shoes
  • Swish and Swipe
  • Start Your Laundry
  • Decide on Dinner
  • Check Your Calendar
  • Start the Day off with a Shiny Sink. Don’t leave the breakfast dishes sitting.
Weekly Home Blessing Hour:
Spread these out over the course of the week. Put a note on each day of the week with one or two of these per day.

7 Parts of the Weekly Home Blessing Hour from The FlyLady:

  • Quick Dust
  • Sweep/Mop
  • Purge Magazines or Paper Clutter
  • Change Bedding
  • Empty Trash
  • Clean Windows/Mirrors
  • Vacuum
 School:
  • Read a chapter book together as a family.
 Afternoon Routine:
  • Eat Lunch
  • Clear off One Hot Spot
  • Reboot the Laundry
  • Declutter for 15 Minutes (Be sure to have your children declutter, too.)
  • Drink Your Water
Family Fun: Have some outdoor time with your children today. Play. Do some nature journaling. The point is to add some movement to your day.
Before Bed: (This starts right after dinner.) 
  • Check the Calendar for Tomorrow
  • Lay out Your Clothes for Tomorrow (Have your children lay their clothes out, too.)
  • Lay anything out that you will need first thing in the morning
  • Shine Your Sink
  • Clean Off a Hot Spot
  • Go to Bed at Decent Hour

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About Tami

Tami Fox is a homeschool mom of 6, who in age from 26 to 11. She and her husband have homeschooled for 17 years and have graduated three of their children from their homeschool. They are currently homeschooling 3 boys who are in grades 11, 9, and 6. They use hands-on learning and unit studies to ignite the fire of learning in their children. Tami is a homeschool author and conference speaker. You can contact her by email at Tami@TamiFox.com. Buy her book, Giving Your Children Wings at https://tamifox.net/giving-your-children-wings/.

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