A clean house... almost

 About a year ago, I started to follow the flylady method of keeping my house clean. And I did pretty well at it... until I didn't anymore. :)

Since then I've just been struggling to stay on top of the clutter and dirt - and not doing a great job at it. So after seeing many great cleaning schedules on Pinterest, I finally sat down and put together my very own!!

It's now been working for me for a full month, so I figured I'd share it with you all!

 Daily

Sweep

Dishes

Wipe Counters

1 Load of Laundry

Weekly

Monday - Vacuum

Tuesday - Finances & Take out Trash

Wednesday - Clean Bathroom & Empty Litterbox

Thursday - Mop Floors

Friday - Swing Day *see below*

Saturday - Catch-up Day

 Swing Day (Monthly)

1st - Dust & Wipe Down Cabinets

2nd - Scrub Kitchen Appliances

3rd - Wipe Down Walls, Baseboards & Doors

4th - Change All Bedding

5th - Seasonal or Miscellaneous 

I have a few things that I do daily, just to stay on top of the simple messes. Then I have 1 chore I do each day of the week, and I put Saturday down as a catch-up day in case I miss something during the week. But otherwise, the weekends are free for family/fun days. And ok, so doing the finances aren't really a cleaning chore - but I had to schedule that in, otherwise the receipts would pile up and become overwhelming.

I also made 1 day of each week a "swing day" meaning I do a monthly chore on that day. Since there are some months that have 5 weeks instead of 4, and those come around every 3-4 months, I figure that's a good day to do any seasonal or miscellaneous chore that needs to be done at that time.

Now, maybe you do some of these chores more often than I do on my schedule... but the frequency they are getting done according to this schedule, is more frequently than they were getting done without it. :)

And there you have it! It's been working for us for a full month now, and I can say that my house is now always in a somewhat-decent condition, and ready for company. Never perfect and completely clean... but good enough. Which is what I think any of us want, right?!

 How do you keep on top of your housework? Do you have a schedule of your own?

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Updated!

An update was long over-due, and I finally got around to it!

The first and biggest change I've made, is that I removed the page links from the top. You can now find those links just to the right, below my "About Me" section - under the section called "Our Family".
Please let me know what you think about this change - like it or hate it? Should I keep it, or change it back?

And, I've updated those links! I realized I hadn't added a picture of Sweet Pea since her 1 month photo... but that has been remedied.

Check out the recently updated Meet Me, Meet Monster, and Meet Sweet Pea pages, to see what I've added!

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Hair!

 Sweet Pea's hair is finally getting long enough that it is showing up in pictures! Woohoo!

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Road Trip!

My best friend's brother got married last night. I've known him since he was 4 years old; I was 5. So it was pretty crazy to be attending his wedding - but it was beautiful! The location was 3 hours away from our house, so we decided to make a weekend of it, and we booked a motel for Saturday night instead of making a 3 hr drive home at 9pm. :)

The wedding was gorgeous, the weather was fantastic (mid-upper 90's!) and everybody had a great time. The kids were surprisingly well-behaved, too! Monster only slept 30 min out of the 3 hr drive there... so he was TIRED by the time we arrived for the 4pm wedding. Sweet Pea had thankfully slept most of the way. But it was super hot, and Monster could not be convinced to drink his juice or water. He was so hot and tired and miserable. He got about 30 more minutes of sleep in my arms during the reception. When he woke from that nap, he decided to join the dance floor. :)

Ben requested a song from the DJ - "Sweet Child O' Mine", buy Guns & Roses. That is his & Sweet Pea's song. It was the song we played at her birth to announce her gender, and it is the song that he played while he danced with her every day for the first few months of her life (they don't dance every day anymore, but he still loves to dance with her to this song) <3 She was alseep when he played it, but that didn't stop this daddy from dancing with his daughter!

We left the wedding around 8:30 and headed back to the motel. As I was setting Monster down in the room, he vomited! Poor baby boy! This was his first time vomiting (aside from infant spit-up), so it was a bit traumatic, to say the least. We got him cleaned up, contacted management so they could clean up the floor, and then got both kids to bed. All I can say is thank goodness he didn't do that at the wedding or in the truck! He didn't have any fever, and I assumed it was just from the heat.

This morning he was feeling better (after sleeping in an air conditioned room all night long!) and we went out for a yummy breakfast. When we came back to the motel, we took advantage of the outdoor pool! Monster enjoyed it for about 35 minutes, then we headed back in to change clothes and check out.

We met my parents (who were also staying overnight for the wedding) for lunch before leaving town, and then took the scenic route back home. The view was much nicer than the main interstate we took on the way to the wedding. There was 1 spot we couldn't resist stopping. It was sooo pretty!

Sweet Pea was asleep in the truck. Don't worry, it was about 4 feet away. ;)

We were only gone for about 30 hours, but it felt so much longer (which is a good thing), and we had a great time!

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Birthday Planning Already?

 I can't believe that it's already time to start planning Sweet Pea's first birthday party.... but it is! The first birthday is a big deal, and I need to start the planning process now so that it can all come together in the end. I've decided on a theme at this point, and am in the brainstorming/idea-collecting phase.

So I started a Pinterest board to help me! You can check it out here!

I'm having her bow & shoes custom made, and will probably get a shirt made from Esty... just not sure which one yet. Go ahead and take a peek at the board to get a feel for it! It's gonna be amazing! :D

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