Chores, Chores, Chores
July 2, 2009 at 8:56 pm | In Family, Mothering, New Mexico | 2 Comments
Notes from Ummi to kids will be posted in this here bulletin board.
It’s been 5 months after we moved, and I have taken this long to finally come up with a chore chart for the kids, and myself. I had taken out the magnecti chore chart we used back in Cbus in the early weeks after the move, but I wasn’t able to pinpoint all the chores because we were not fully settled in yet. Then there were activities. Now, alhamdulillah, that we have almost fully settled down, I am finalyl able to come up with our morning and evening routines as well as the weekly and monthly chores that need to be done. I reconstituted my routines back when I was using Flylady. I love the concept of evening and morning routines, because it makes things much much smooher for the rest of the day and the day after.
I had used it before I was pregnant with J, but things fell apart during the pregnancy, and after the stillbirth, I never really picked it up, even after we had Baby Z. Now is the time to pick it up and I had a meeting with the kids regarding chore division.
Morning and Evening Routines nicely written and framed, and hung outside their bedrooms.
Prior to that, I had listed all the chore, weekly, monthly and daily. So it made it easier to discuss with them since I know what needs to be done around the house. After the meeting, we came up with a framed evening and morning routines, which S and N worked on. H used excel on Google to create a bathroom, bedroom, sunroom chore chart. I used the magnetic chore chart to list the remaining chores. They are to start abiding by these charts next week inshaallah. I hope they do. If not, I’ll probably end up making myself bald.
As for myself, I listed my chores in the weekly planner stuck on the fridge, and my book planner. I am the type of person who needs organization to feel grounded. Maybe the reason I have felt unstable these past few months, is because there were no real organization in the house. With so many new things popping up, I was pulled here and there with no real focused direction. It is time for revamping and probably saying no to a few stuff. It is time to cross off some items off my ‘currently doing’ list. I find that hard to do though, because almost everything I am doing is beneficial. Nevertheless, I can’t perform at all if my plate is always heaping full, so I do need to swipe some things off my plate, that’s for sure.
Whiel we were having the meeting, S asked,
“Are we going to get rewarded for doing the chores?”
I gave her that look. I knew she knew the answer, but she asked anyway.
“What do you think?” I asked back.
“No.”
I continued with the meeting but not before saying,
“The reward is a clean house.”
And a clean house is what we’re aiming for inshaallah. As well as a sane and grounded mother.
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i will always remember the “the reward is a clean house” forever n ever, in the event my kids start to ask the same question.
I will give the same answer until they stop asking.
LOL. Thanks for the tip.
Comment by hudhud — July 5, 2009 #
hihihihihihi….hopefully they will respond with a ‘yay!” hihihihi…..
Comment by nadiaschooldays — July 6, 2009 #