Planning Polka

Before Bed Boogie 

• Turn the dish washer on
• Turn the washing machine on
• Make sure your sink is empty
• Wet mop your kitchen
• Pick your clothes for tomorrow
• Set your alarm clock
• Put the coffee on (if you have a timer. Or just get it ready to turn on)
• Look at your calendar
• Journal

• Once a week (Thursday for me) you need to plan the next week and month. this will be the time to make you menu for the next week and your shopping list, plus any plans you need to do for school.

The Master Chore List

Make a list of all the chores you want/need to do. Go through each room, looking at each item to stir your memory. 

Now sort these chores by how often they need to be done; each meal, daily, weekly, monthly, annually. 

Be sure to include “Do weekly chores” on your daily list, “Do monthly Chores” on your weekly list, and “Do Yearly Chores” on your monthly list. This is the major mistake I have always made. I plan to do weekly monthly, and yearly chores but forget to allot time to actually do them in my daily schedule. If it’s not scheduled there is a good chance it won’t get done.

I also look over my weekly planner. This is a sort of rough draft for each days schedule/to do list. As I think of things that need to be done over the course of the next week or two I add it to a specific day, each day assigned a specific category:

·        Monday I take care of the church’s website and internet stuff

·        Tuesday is for housework, weekly, and monthly chores

·        Wednesday is my time to do special studies on herbs and midwifing.

·        Thursday is for great big project.

·        Friday is for errands or projects at my mom’s house.

·        Saturday is for repairing things that have broken over the week and for crafts such as crocheting.

·        Sunday is church. In the afternoon I do crafts again.

(This is actually only a rough schedule. Schedules are tools. They should never become slave masters.)