Summertime! And The Planning Is Easy!

Hello my beautiful friends,
I hope you are having a wonderful summer so far. Here at the little house on Clover Ridge we are just getting things kicked off. The littles had day camp all last week so we are just hitting our groove this week. I spent some time getting our organizational plans in place. You may remember some of our plans from last year. You can see that post here http://houseoncloverridge.blogspot.com/2014/08/summertime-avoiding-chaos-chores-and.html
But this years plans look like this:

This is our summer chore list. Each of the 3 kids and I have a section. We split the big jobs up between up. Thank God for bigger kids!!! Especially the kitchen chores. Each day one of us cooks, one puts dishes away, one puts food away and is a kitchen helper and one washes dishes. It works great to split it up so no one person has to spend a lot of time in the kitchen. I cook more then anyone else but I only wash dishes one ay a week. We split bathrooms up too. One does all the sinks, one does all the toile-y bowls and another does the tub and tile in one bath and I do the shower and tub in the master and the floors in all of the bathrooms. This is a slightly altered system so I will let you know how it goes.

One of the kids had this idea last year. It worked great and we are doing it again. It is a simplified summertime menu plan. The meals are quick and easy and it helps with cost and time so we can spend more time having fun!

I don't know about your house but here it can be Chaos Central. Things get crazy and there are more freak out and melt downs when there is no structure in times like summer when there is less "have-to's" and scheduled everyday activities. So years ago we started doing a daily schedule when everyone is going to be at home and it really helps! This is our schedule and we are not drill seargent crazy about it but it does help to have a plan of some kind and it helps keep the kids from playing video games all damn day!!!!

You might have noticed that exercise is on the daily chore schedule. It was last year too. While it doesn't actually happen as often as I would like it does help encourage them to move it, move it! I found this online and printed it off for the youngest as an encouragement for him. I have found any time we can cross off the days on a task it happens more! I am also compiling a list of simple easy exercises that don't require a large time commitment or a lot of equipment and maybe some that are multi-participant to encourage the boys to do them. And we are going to try and put together an obstacle course in the backyard to have some fun with too!

 

 

I am still working on our display for our bucket list so that will be coming soon!!  Here's to a simple, relaxing, organized summer with the kids!!!