Lovin Miss Flylady!

I ran across this awesome website today. As usual I was playing around on my iPhone and came across this neat app Home Routines. As I was reading about it, it kept talking about this flylady. My curiosity was piqued, I just had to find out what they were talking about. Well let me tell you what, it is the neatest thing ever! I am not a clean freak but I do like to be organized and I do like my house to look nice BUT I have 4 boys and a busy schedule so sometimes it is easier said than done. My biggest struggle is that I look at the house as a whole and then get all stressed wanting to do it all at once. This usually leads to discouragement or me making a huge mess by working on multiple areas at once not able to finish them. Last year I did try and work out a routine of when I would do certain chores, for example bathrooms on Monday, Kitchen on Tuesday and so on. It has really worked but sometimes it seems like I clean and then 10 minutes later it looks like a tornado blew through! 

I read through the Flylady blog for at least an hour. I printed off stuff and even played around with keynote, making my own routines & schedules. What makes here system so nice is that even though you still do the usual work, each week you focus on 1 Zone and deep clean it. You can organize your house in to zones however you like or you can use her setup. I chose to change it a bit because of the way my house is designed. From my understanding, once you get through the 5 zones you are really smooth sailing. In this way, its like you're cleaning to maintain not to get by. So much nicer than my way :) Also she has this neat idea for getting things ready before hand. When you go to bed, get everything ready for a smooth morning, clean sink, picked up LR, lay out your clothes and so on. Actually it doesn't take much time to do just the choice to get it done. Usually by the time I get the boys settled for the night I just want to crash or watch TV. Tonight I chose to do her routine. Some of it I was able to do before I put the kids to bed and while they were doing their own bedtime routines. 

I am so excited to see how much easier this is once I done it through a month. I did end up getting the app and it is awesome too! It follows the same Zone idea and you can edit what rooms go it which zone and also what cleaning you will do in each zone. Then as you work through each room in the zone you check it off. It even gives you these cute little gold stars. Yes, even adults like rewards :)