Saturdays are for my bedroom!

This is me! I got this from my Grandma Shirley's house. Too cute! 

I save vacuuming and dusting in my bedroom for Saturday because it is also my sweet husband's office. I don't think he would appreciate me doing that while he was trying to work!

Wash the sheets, vacuum and dust, put away things that have been left out. It usually takes me about 30 minutes. Today it took a little longer because things got a little disorganized this week.

This is my cool dresser.
It used to belong to the boys
and they put all those army stickers on it!

Nice paneling, huh?!
The whole left side, that you can't see, is a window!

Friday is Sewing Room Day!

This is my very short cleaning day and sometimes I skip it. It's also our local park day, so if we want to go to the park early, go shopping, or stop for some lunch on the way there, I skip it and head out the door!

Dusting, vacuuming, and the general putting away of things that get dropped here is what happens on Friday. Take a look!

My sweet crafty closet!

This room is bitter sweet to have. It used to be my step-daughters room, but she has moved next door to Grandma's...so I took over! I have lots of craft stuff and this room will be filling up fast as I now have an indoor space to keep it. I need more shelves!

Thursdays are for Bathrooms!

Ahh the job I hate most. At least it gets done regularly now that I have it on my schedule and if anyone comes over to visit, all I have to do is run in and wipe down the toilet and get a fresh hand towel!

Believe it or not, this...

The bathroom drawer!

 ...is my sons bathroom drawer. I discovered the organization of it a couple weeks ago when I went to borrow the scissors. He's weirder than me!

Thursdays, I clean the toilet, the shower, and the sink, wipe down the mirrors and cabinets, and dust the little knick knacks like these...

My favorite little shelf in the front bathroom.

These two pictures are from my bathroom. 

Things I want to remember.
My Grandma Sylvia when I see the plate I 'made' for her when I was five and the cross she gave me.
That depression lies and the battle is never over.
And one of my many turtles. Slow and steady wins the race, right!?

My own bathroom. Never thought I'd have that! :)

Boys' Room Day

Straightened and dusted!

Wednesdays are for cleaning the boys' room. I straightened and dusted and vacuumed. I got them to help me with some of the things they have left about. Tom would have a huge pile of change, magnets, sticks, bottle caps (you know, boys pocket things) piled to the ceiling on his nightstand if we didn't go through and clean it up each week, trust me, I know. We didn't used to do this.

Shelves are straightened, books put back, edges vacuumed, window sill cleared of insects, cobwebs sucked away, sheets washed, and beds made up well.

Tom's shot glass collection.

Bins full of toys we only get out when we have company. But at least it's easy to clean up.
We took the doors off the closet because they are the sliding ones that are not boy friendly.
They were always getting knocked off the runners by projectiles!

Jake's pin collection. 

For the porch cleaning week, I found some more things to put away in the garage or throw away, but not much. I'm planning on pulling some weeds in a planter out front tomorrow.

We went to the mall in Palm Springs to find a birthday present for a cousin. The wind mills were in a funky position! The smaller canyon ones were still, the bigger ones along the 62 were pointed south against the mountain, and the ones further down the 10 were pointed north. As if the wind were coming from the north across the desert and hitting the mountain, turning around and coming back north across our desert. That's just strange.

We struck out at many of the stores we went to, decided to have lunch at the mall (one of our favorites), and then went to the bookstore. I got a couple new books, just in time. I'm almost done with the one I'm on now. And we found something interesting for our cousin. Tom got one of those HexBugs and we've been having fun harassing the cat with it.

Oh! And on the way there, the boys asked me if we were going to the zoo. I thought they were bored of the zoo, but they emphatically want to go again. Crazy! We thought about going right then, but we would have missed feeding the giraffe, so we decided to save it. Maybe next week.

Living Room Day!

Jake's sweet space station.

I know you really want to know this! Right?!

Tuesday is "Living Room Day", so that means I dust, vacuum, and generally clean up the living room. It's a futile effort to keep back the tide of animal hair and desert sand in my living room.

Here are some pictures of our day.

Cleaned up games and my latest knitting project.

Tom, just after I finished vacuuming, hoping I don't kill him.

Ahh, to have a wall full of books!

Who wants to play Scrabble?

The dry erase craziness!

One of my treasured possessions.

I did not work on the porch today because we had a resurgence of winter. When I got up, it was 40 degrees and there was frost, FROST, on my windshield. Must of been some of the Orange County moisture seeping over the mountains. Weird though because it has been no less than 55 in the morning, all week. Today it only got up to about 55 degrees all day! So I put off any outdoor work. I'm that much of a baby.

It's also the day I do the grocery shopping for the week. List made. Groceries bought.

AND I got my Blog2Print book of our trip in the mail today! It looks great. I'm going to make one for each of our trips. I'm going to make one every few months or so until I catch up. Very cool.

Kitchen Day!

I thought I'd start sharing a bit of the every day stuff, so here it goes.

Each day of the week I focus on a room of the house. And each week I do extra stuff in one room of the house. So, Monday is "Kitchen Day" and this week is "Porch Week". I also have "Daily Chores", but I go into that another time!

Here's my kitchen...

My sweet old kitchen. I love these cabinets!

That used to be the front door, but now it's a
mud room and then the front door.

On kitchen day, I clean the counters good, wipe down the front of the fridge, wash the trash can lid, and sweep and mop the floor. So that all gets done once a week.








I also mop the bathroom floor since I have the mop and bucket out and it's the only other part of the house with a mopable floor. Sometimes I'll wash the rugs on this day too. Some day I'd LOVE to have this bathroom remodeled, but everything works fine and cleans up well, so I can't really justify the cost right now. That charcoal drawing of a coyote was here when we bought the place. I love it and sprayed some clear coat over it. I don't want to cover it up!

Our poor neglected back porch.

And then the porch! Each day I find one project to work on for an hour or less and do it. We have a LOT of porch.

Here are some pictures of it.

I sweep, put away things left out, pull weeds, generally clean up things that have gotten crazy since the last time. Sometimes I recruit the boys' help. Then the outside of the house is generally clean and if we're going to have people over, I don't have a ton of work to do to get ready.

And the front porch.

Some day, I'm going to have this house painted! Maybe next winter.








So. That's Monday. I love to have schedules and lists, so this is how I feed that. I spend an hour or so on daily chores, an hour on the room of the week, and an hour on the weekly area. I spend the rest of the day doing anything I darn well please.