I am doing a new series on “back to school” (see the first post here), and as part of that, I am encouraging moms to learn some efficiency and organizational strategies to make the school year better. I look back on my thirty-one years of homeschooling so far and realize that each year, each season, each month was really another opportunity to add another skill, another layer to my organization, efficiency, and home management strategies.
Some of my ideas flopped terribly (the “no breakfast, just fruit followed by brunch” idea or the “lunches made up on divided plates using leftovers” idea—yeah, they didn’t work), but I was not disheartened. I guess I’m a little bit like Thomas Edison in that: “I have not failed 10,000 times. I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.”
“I have not failed fifty-four times in a way to make breakfasts and lunches more efficient. I have successfully found fifty-four times that didn’t work!” 🙂
However, many of my outrageous ideas were successes—and have given me tools to manage my home and homeschool that I have just loved!
So without further ado, I whet your appetite for the coming posts with this list of Ten Ways to Get Things Done FAST for Families…join us! And tell your friends about us. Coz school year 2015-2016 could just be the best, most organized, most heart-affecting year ever!
Ten Ways to Get Things Done FAST for Families
(1) Have a timer burst
(2) Institute a horizontal surface cleaning approach
(3) Have a “dad in the driveway” blitz
(4) Have at least two consistent chore sessions so that daily things are not always looming
(5) Announce a “room to room” time
(6) Make four of one entrée every week—makes dinner super fast
(7) Have a “do your favorite task” time
(8) Have a “successful next day” routine at night
(9) Call for two times your age sessions
(10) Instill an “I can do anything for five minutes” approach
