Weekly Home Routine

     Now that I have set some goals for 2014, how do I plan to accomplish them?  I want to start with my home.  I have followed (or maybe I should say 'observed' instead) flylady.net for years.  I have set up elaborate routines and schedules.  I have set up a wonderful control journal.  I have even purchased some of her products.  I have gone back through those routines and simplified them.  I have gone through them again and broken them down to make them even less detailed in order to reduce some stress and feelings of failure for me.  I'd love to have a clean, uncluttered, organized home.  That has never been a super priority for me.  I would think, "It is just me so it is not so important.  I'll clean when I have company."  Maybe there are some self esteem issues I should take a look at--maybe later.
     When I was working full time I seemed to only be able to be organized one place at a time, work or home.  Guess which one won out there.  Now I have moved from a 2600 square foot, four bedroom, three bathroom home to an 850 square foot, one bedroom, one bathroom old farm house.  I have had to downsize.  I would have thought it would be easier to keep a smaller house clean but you still have to clean.  Floors still need vacuumed (there are just not as big of an area).  Toilets still need scrubbed (not there is only one instead of three).  Kitchen still needs cleaned, laundry still needs done, and the bed still needs made. My problem is that I just do not make myself do it regularly and only do the bare minimum until I can't stand it any more.  Then I do something.

Daily Household Schedule

Sunday                                 The Lord’s Day
Monday                               Bedroom Focus
                                              Laundry-Bedding
                                              Vacuum                                         
Tuesday                               Bathroom Focus
                                              Laundry-Towels
                                              Sweep& Scrub Floors
Wednesday                         Kitchen Focus
                                              Laundry-Colors
                                              Water Plants
Thursday                             Living room Focus
                                             Laundry-Whites
                                             Dust      
Friday                                  Office Focus
                                             Laundry-Extras
                                             Update Bookwork
                                             Entry/Laundry Room Focus
Saturday                             Family Time


I also have set some daily basic (should be no-brainer) routines for different times of the day.

Morning Routine	Afternoon Routine	Evening Routine	Before Bed Routine		Zones--
Make Bed	Eat Lunch	Eat Dinner	Make a to do list		1 - Entrance, Front Porch, Laundry Room
Shower & Dress	Lay out for Supper	Clean up Kitchen	Run Dishwasher		2 - Kitchen
Personal Care	Quick Pickup	Check Calendar	Lay out clothes		3 - Bathroom,Sewing Room, Office
Empty Dishwasher	Exercise	Scripture Study	Personal Care		4 - Bedroom
Eat Breakfast	Check mail	Quick Pickup	Take Meds		5 - Living Room

    
     New year, new start.  I want to begin to follow those routines I have set up or rework them to work better for me.  So here is my Weekly Home Routines.
      Now let me tell you I am not OCD about any of this.  I can go with the flow of life and let these things be pushed into the background--so far back that I completely ignore them.  I'd rather do other things-like sewing, quilting, and helping around the farm-than work on cleaning house.  I want to focus more on this in 2014 without becoming OCD and without stressing about it.  I want to enjoy the process of becoming better.


Organize yourselves; prepare every needful thing, and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God. 
          (D&C 109:8)


Rose 

2014 goals

Now it is 2014.  I hope to do better with keeping up with this blog.  I hope that this can make me more accountable in how I spend my time.  Goals:


--Unfinished Quilting & Sewing Projects--
1.  Quilt Off-Set Blocks quilt
2.  Frame Welcome Embroidery piece (Done)
3.  Finish tiny wall hangings (Done)
4.  Quilt Storm at Sea quilt
5.  Quilt Double Irish Chain quilt (Done)
6.  Quilt Garden quilt
7.  Quilt Garden quilt wall hanging
8.  Finish Embroidered Baskets wall hanging
9.  Finish Embroidered Baby Sun Bonnet Sue baby quilt (Done)

--New Quilting and Sewing Projects--
1.  Embroidered Flowers Quilt
2.  Island Sunset Paper Pieced Quilt
3.  Camping Appliqué wall hanging
4.  Harvest Moon wall hanging
5.  Baby Broeckelman Quilt x 2 (New project added)  (Done)

 --Household--
1.  Clean and organize storage in basement
2.  Clean and organize bedroom & closet  (Bedroom Done)
3.  Clean and organize laundry room (Done)
4.  Clean and organize mud room
5.  Clean and organize kitchen cabinets  (Done)
6.  Clean and organize sewing room/office
7.  Clean and caulk bathtub  (Note 10-14-14: Shower surround is cracking and the entire thing needs replaced)
8.  Seal bathroom window
9.  Vacuum or wash curtains (Done)
10.  Wash windows inside and outside
11.  Install rain gutter down spouts (Done)

 --Spiritual--
1.  Read scriptures daily (Note: I have not missed a day in 2 years now)
2.  Pray daily
3.  Old Testament Seminary Study
4.  Attend church services and meetings weekly
5.  Attend temple 2 times (if not more)  (Done-attended 3 times)
6.  Journal in a jar topics
7.  Work of family history
8.  Family search indexing


OK.  I know.  This is a long list of goals.  At the pace I go, maybe this should be my 5 year plan instead of 2014 goals.  I am not unrealistic to think that I will get everything done.  I doubt I get half of it done.  I think this is mainly a listing of the things that I'd like to work on.  If I will organize my time better, set up some routines and follow those routines, apply myself more and stay focused; I could get all this accomplished.  Maybe I will set a new 2014 goal--try to work on this list and mark off at least one thing in each category before the end of the year. 

Rose

New Year

As you can tell I did not blog last year.  Where did it go?  I babysat with Macie & Layne 3 days a week after pre-school.  We had so much fun together.  When school was out I thought I'd have more time.  Evidently not.  The twins are in kindergarten now and are so busy that I hardly see them even though they live across the road from me.  Right now I can't even tell you what I did.

I bought a new car in March.  In September I went on a little road trip for the first time in the new car.  It took me 6 months to go more than 30 miles from home. 


In June my mother and her sisters had a "Sisters Quilt Week" here at the farm.  The sewing was set up at my house and Aunt Sis taught us how to do a paper piecing project.  They included me in their activities.  It was so fun and I love the quilted wall hanging.  I have purchased a pattern and fabric to make another paper pieced project. 
I am on the library board and work a few shifts at the library per month.  I also get the rotation books ready for pickup and then get the new rotation books logged in and shelved.  I also helped with the Summer Reading Program at the library in June.  Our theme was 'Dig into Reading'.  Our big event with the older children was a trip to the Fick Fossil Museum in Oakley then to Monument Rocks south of Oakley to look for our own fossils.  It was a very hot day but a nice trip with the kids. 
I went to a Family History Expo in Kearney, NE then drove through Iowa to Nauvoo, IL to visit church history sites.  The middle of September and the temperature was  99 - 103 degrees the whole time I was there.  HOT!  I did enjoy my 3 days there and loved the Nauvoo Temple.   I then went to the Carthage jail.  I tried to make short travel days to try to prevent growing anxiety and would stop early and sleep late in the mornings. On the way home I went to Hannibal, MO with the plan to take a river boat trip.  There was so much road construction that I could not figure out how to get to the place.  I got lost in the construction and then got frustrated.  It was time to go home.  I was gone a week and was glad to be home. 
We made two trips to Loveland to take Dad to the cardiologist.  All is going well.  The medications are doing their job and his heart functions have greatly improved.


I made three trips to Denver with my mother and aunts.  None of them want to drive in Denver any more so I am the driver. I enjoy it.  Aunt Dorothy broke her leg and was put in an Alzheimer rehab unit.  Her leg healed but her condition deteriorated greatly.  I am blessed to be able to spend time with my mother and with my aunts. 
I have never been to Colorado so many times and not at least drive into the mountains for a day trip let alone go camping.  Maybe this year I will get to camp in the mountains again.  That is something I love.


The end of October I went with Mom & Dad to Arkansas to see my brother, Allen.  We were gone 2 weeks.  That was enough time away from home for Dad.  It was so nice to see Allen's home and all the work he is doing on it.  It was even nicer to spend time with him and to catch up again.  He has finished his RN schooling and is working in a phych hospital and loves his work.  We were able to spend a weekend on our way home with Karen and Ron in Wichita.  It did not work out for me to go down and spend a week with Karen this summer like I usually do. 
I have worked on several small quilting and sewing projects through out the year.  Besides the paper pieced project in June, I designed a 6" block with a square offset center in a square.  I made over 325 blocks then made a king sized quilt top.  I want to get that quilted this year.  I also helped piece together blocks that my sister, Cathy, hand pieced over the years as she listened to her kids read 15 minutes a night for school.  She has 8 kids so that is a lot of listening and hand sewing time.  Since she hand pieced the blocks, I also hand pieced them together with background blocks.  I have done a couple embroidery projects that need finished as well as a couple little wall hangings to quilt and bind. 


Then came the holidays and now 2013 is over and 2014 has begun. 
2014 goals to come.


Rose