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{ Home } Challenge 1: Chores

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{home} tag{ Home } is the place we live. I want it to be a safe, comfortable, cozy place for my family.  That’s not going to happen if I don’t stay on top of somethings.  Things like laundry, dishes, dusting.  Things I don’t enjoy.  Enter my first challenge to myself.

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Challenge:  

  • Keep a neat home (not obsessively tidy, but clean enough I don’t panic when the doorbell rings).

Goals:

  • A daily load of laundry
  • A clean kitchen every night
  • 3ish small tasks each day

Plan:

  • Don’t recreate the wheel.  Use a system that I’ve used before and that I know works for me.  For me that’s the Confident Mom planner.   I love this plan, because I can do the few tasks listed on each day.

  • Stick to the system.  The biggest reason I don’t usually stick to this system–I forget to print out the next week’s plan.  I just printed the first 12 weeks of the year.  No excuses now!!!

  • Delegate!  The kids can help!  Take for example today’s tasks:  change sheets in the kids’ rooms.  They can do that!  Vacuum the kids’ rooms.  They can do that too!  Sweet!

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Home.

My Word for 2014.

This is the third year I’ve chosen a word for year. Here’s the idea: Rather than make a long list of resolutions and I’m-gonna-do’s, you choose a word that inspires you.

So…I’ve picked my word.  Or maybe it’s picked me.

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This word has been front and center in mind and heart for a while now.  Kinda funny considering we are currently prepping our home to sell.  But I think the word goes so much farther than my little brick box in Southern Hills. Home inspires me with thoughts of warmth, laughter, food, and love.  Home challenges me with thoughts of safety and kindness and comfort.   It’s a mindset.  It’s a feeling.  It’s a safe place.  It extends from my kitchen to my car to any space I share with another.  Home.