*Re-Zoning* My House

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Now that homeschool has started back up, my house is a disaster. I mean, really, it's terrible! I've come to the conclusion that if you're a homeschool mom and your house is spotless, either A) You're not doing your job homeschooling or B) You have a maid. haha

Now I say that completely lightheartedly, believe me! But seriously, it's hard to keep up with it all. Isn't it? Or am I the only one? Please say "no"! It seems like it's just hard for me to keep all my juggling balls in the air, one or two keep hitting the ground.

When I first got married~over 13 years ago~I was housekeeper extraordinaire! Everything was spic and span and I took one day each week to totally clean the whole place. Now, please understand that we lived in an apartment that was 640 sq. ft. and there were not munchkins making messes. Even our 2nd home (first house) was only about 1,100 sq. ft., so it was very easy to whip into shape. But somehow, even though our current home is not that much bigger (about 1640 sq. ft.), having two littles running around just kills my *keep things in order* ability. It's like trying to shovel your sidewalk during a blizzard. I just can't seem to get everything done in one day anymore.

So I was recently inspired by Amber at Three Meals & a Baby to revisit my Martha Stewart Homekeeping Handbook. I also {briefly} revisited the FlyLady. And after pondering how I can become more efficient with my housekeeping, I have created some *zones*.

Each day has its own zone to be cleaned on that particular day. For example, my zones are:

• Monday: the bathrooms
• Tuesday: the bedrooms
• Wednesday: the entry, hallway, living room and laundry room
• Thursday: the kitchen and dining area
  
• Friday: tidy-up each zone for the weekend

Now there are things I do daily as well. Things like tidying up the kitchen, sweeping the kitchen/dining area, doing laundry, etc. Now if I could just work in my ironing pile....ugh.

So this new plan was implemented just yesterday. Hopefully I have made it easy enough that I can get my daily *zone* done each afternoon after we're finished with school work.

Monday went well and I now have very clean bathrooms! It's a nice way to start the week!

How do you schedule out your housekeeping? I'd love to hear!

This post is linked to the Hip Homeschool Hop.