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And than the light bulb goes on.....
2015 dawns bright and cheery, clear brain, new ideas, and a New Year!
With 8 children, 2 adults, and red mud, and 'old Macdonald Farming. There tends to be a lot of laundry, tons of food to cook, and endless mounds of work and just constant filthy toilets! See I told you it is endless!
Brainstorm #1. Two oldest girls - two jobs.
Job #1 Baking bread/Cooking
Job #2 Laundry.
They take the job by the week and swap off after 7 days. The girls each have a younger child to help them with their job.
Brainstorm #2. He who pees the toilet seat, cleans it. (If you can catch it/them) (IT WORKED!!!, don't think I will have same child wet the toilet seat again- he is terrified of working)
It really has been working! I am able to clean up the kitchen, sweep floors, and rock the baby without guilt. And Kayla has been able to play on her new Cricut ;) I know.... we aren't 30 days into the New Year, but it feels good enough that hopefully we will be able to form a new-GOOD habit! And the house has a long ways to go to become organized since I am better at reading the blogs written about how to organize than actually do it myself! But hey... I am trying!
And should I mention that the majority of our clothes are dried on racks by the Wood Cookstove rather than the drier, since we live at the Windy-est spot in Campbell County! And hanging laundry out on a pulley line only asked for them to be whisked off out in the red mud and maybe seen flying over the fence-
And now off to rock the baby back to sleep~
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