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Organize Your Life

&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading">Time to kick this organization into high gear with these tips and downloadables to get your house clean&comma; organized&comma; and even help get the kids involved&excl;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">Organization for some is a daunting task that gets put off day after day&comma; week after week until one day you are looking around thinking&comma; holy cr&ast;p what happened to my house&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-image"><figure class&equals;"aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;mamabearreviews&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;03&sol;3-Fun-downloadables-683x1024&period;png" class&equals;"wp-image-6727" width&equals;"342" height&equals;"512"&sol;><&sol;figure><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">Oranization for others&comma; myself included&comma; is something we may not always <em>want <&sol;em>to do&comma; but it feels so rewarding afterwards&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad11" id&equals;"quads-ad11" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">Plus I personally love the before &amp&semi; after organization and clean photos&period; It gives me motivation and when my house &lpar;and life&rpar; is organized&comma; my stress levels come way down&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">But I was not always like this&comma; ask my mom&period; As a teenager and little kid&comma; I could care less what my space looked like&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">Sure I envyed my friends who had &&num;8220&semi;perfect&&num;8221&semi; bedrooms&comma; but I just didn&&num;8217&semi;t have the means or will power to make it that way&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">Honestly&comma; it took getting married and moreso having kids to kick my butt into organization gear&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">It is still something that I struggle with week by week&period; Some week are better than others&period; Some weeks I am all about it and want to organize every room and crevasse in the house and others I just want to sit on the couch and watch the world go by&&num;8230&semi;anyone else&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">I will say once I decided to stop the laziness and wallowing about how I wanted my home to be this &&num;8220&semi;picture perfect&&num;8221&semi; space&comma; I kicked my own booty into shape and got&period; to&period; work&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">I created some printables to help with this task however because sometimes we just need a pretty piece of paper to give us that boost of motivation and reminders of the promise we made to ourselves to stay organized&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">Now a lot of my issues with keeping my house motivated&comma; is people live here&period; If I wanted the picture perfect house&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;d have to kick my husband and kids OUT&excl; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">Kids have a magical sense of when something is freshly washed or clean&comma; its like they have a radar that says &&num;8220&semi;lets mess this up&&num;8221&semi;&period; Am I right&quest;&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">So since I can&&num;8217&semi;t kick them out &lpar;I mean I could but I would miss them a whole bunch&rpar;&comma; I decided to get my kiddos involved&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size"> I created chore charts for my kids to earn a reward like screen time&comma; staying up late&comma; extra outside time&comma; ice cream for dinner&comma; I mean you catch my drift&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">I&&num;8217&semi;m basically bribing my children to help me around the house and you know&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m not above that &lpar;enter shoulder shrug&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading">&ast;Disclaimer&colon; some links are affiliate links meaning I may receive a small commission if you purchase through the link at no additional cost to you&ast;<&sol;h6>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;mamabearreviews&period;com&sol;2020&sol;04&sol;01&sol;organize-your-life&sol;&lowbar;&lowbar;&lowbar;&lowbar;s-chore-chart-3&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;mamabearreviews&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;03&sol;s-chore-chart-1-pdf-724x1024&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-6723"&sol;><&sol;a><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">I will <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;mamabearreviews&period;com&sol;product&sol;kids-weekly-chore-chart&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" aria-label&equals;"link the downloadable &lpar;opens in a new tab&rpar;">link the downloadable<&sol;a> if you want to print them out yourself&period; I put mine inside a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;amzn&period;to&sol;3dzethi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" aria-label&equals;"clear sleeve &lpar;opens in a new tab&rpar;">clear sleeve<&sol;a> that I use a dry erase marker and just have the kids mark a check when they complete the task and then at the end of the day&comma; I can just wipe it clean and reuse&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">I also added a section at the bottom for sharing&period; Not sure about your kids&comma; but mine are 2 years apart and sometimes have a hard time sharing&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">So I decided I would give them little tally marks or smiley faces when they do a great job sharing without me having to lecture or tell them over and over&period; Once they earn 5 smiles&comma; then they get a special snack or treat&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">Now on to my own scheduling&period; I decided to create for myself&comma; a daily cleaning chart&period; I did this so I&&num;8217&semi;m not overwhelmed with the daunting task of cleaning an entire house in one day&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">I break it up into days and those days&comma; the only cleaning task &lpar;aside from normal pick-ups and dishes and such&rpar; are the ones listed on that day&period; I decided to break it up by room&period; Below is the chart&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">I will<a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" aria-label&equals;" link it here &lpar;opens in a new tab&rpar;" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;mamabearreviews&period;com&sol;product&sol;weekly-cleaning-plan&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank"> link it here<&sol;a> if you love my chart and want to download it for yourself&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;mamabearreviews&period;com&sol;2020&sol;04&sol;01&sol;organize-your-life&sol;clean-house-template-3&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;mamabearreviews&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;03&sol;clean-house-template-1-pdf-724x1024&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-6724"&sol;><&sol;a><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">I did leave Saturday and Sunday off on purpose because I gave myself two days off or two catch up days depending on how you want to work your week&period; But since I am a stay-at-home mom&comma; breaking it up like this works for me&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">The last thing I decided to create was a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;mamabearreviews&period;com&sol;product&sol;weekly-meal-plans&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" aria-label&equals;"weekly meal plan &lpar;opens in a new tab&rpar;">weekly meal plan<&sol;a>&period; Once again&comma; I just place this in a clear sleeve&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;amzn&period;to&sol;3dzethi" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" aria-label&equals;"linked here &lpar;opens in a new tab&rpar;">linked here<&sol;a>&comma; and use a dry erase marker to write in my meals and grocery items needed and that way at the end of the week&comma; I can wipe clean and reuse&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;mamabearreviews&period;com&sol;2020&sol;04&sol;01&sol;organize-your-life&sol;light-pink-simple-kindergarten-lesson-plan-1-4&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;mamabearreviews&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;03&sol;Light-Pink-Simple-Kindergarten-Lesson-Plan-1-2-pdf-724x1024&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-6725"&sol;><&sol;a><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">This has helped my stress levels tremendously&period; I no longer sit around with the fridge open wondering what the heck I&&num;8217&semi;m going to make for dinner&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">Now I sit down on Sunday&&num;8217&semi;s &lpar;sometimes Saturdays&rpar; and plan out dinners and even sometimes lunches for the week ahead&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">Makes it easy for grocery shopping too and overspending and overbuying items thinking&comma; &&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;ll make this one day&&num;8221&semi; or &&num;8220&semi;sure this can be used for something&&num;8221&semi;&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">Now I go to the store knowing exactly what I need and what I have for that week&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">Now I don&&num;8217&semi;t include the weekends because the weekends are a little unknown for us whether that be birthday parties&comma; family bbqs&comma; etc&period; and honestly its mainly the weekdays that cause me the most stress so I focused on those&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">So there you have it&comma; <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" aria-label&equals;"three printables &lpar;opens in a new tab&rpar;" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;mamabearreviews&period;com&sol;shop&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">three printables<&sol;a> that have saved me some stress and headaches throughout the week&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-medium-font-size">Hopefully these were helpful for you&comma; let me know in the comment section if you like these organizational posts and if you download the printable and how it worked for your family&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-image"><figure class&equals;"aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i1&period;wp&period;com&sol;mamabearreviews&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;03&sol;3-Fun-downloadables-1&period;png&quest;fit&equals;683&percnt;2C1024&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1" class&equals;"wp-image-6728" width&equals;"342" height&equals;"512"&sol;><&sol;figure><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

Amelia Zamora

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