{My Pregnancy Journey} Challenge Week 2!

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Challenge Week 1

Here Is what I Accomplished This week!

Monday: Today I was Not Feeling So up To Power!

Cleaning Task: Laundry

• Washed My Daily Laundry Load
• Folded Laundry
• Put away Laundry

De clutter Task:Magazines

Go through You stack of Magazines and clean them out.

Tuesday:

Cleaning Task: Fridge

Clean Out Your Kitchen Fridge!

• Take Everything Out
• Clean shelves and drawers.
• Wipe Down items that you took out
• Once all done give the outside of your fridge a good wipe down and shine.

De clutter Task: Fridge

Do You Have Food Items that you never use? (Sauce that you found on sale but nobody in the house likes it? Etc...) Throw them out they are just making clutter.

Organizing Task: Fridge

Organize the Inside of your Fridge. Putting with like items together.

Baby Task: Do something good for you and your baby.

Do something good for you and Baby, do 30 minutes of a pregnancy workout, walking or prenatal yoga. My personal favorite is yoga.

Routine: Cleaning out your Fridge.

Set a time each week that you do a quick clean and wipe down of your fridge, Preferably the day you make you meal plan or the day before you go shopping.

Also Set a Time each month that you give your fridge and deep clean.

Wednesday: 
Most homes have some Kind of Paper Clutter. Today we are going to get all our paper stuff in order by sorting and filing.

Cleaning Task: Paper

• Go around your home and gather all Paper, Mail, Junk Mail, Recipes, Online Printouts, Manuals, Tax papers, Piles of paper work, That pile of mixed papers that you have know clue what's in it. Gather it all and put it in one place.
• Now Get a Box & a Trash bag

De clutter Task: Paper

• Sort Through The Pile Making piles that need to be filed or need a home. throwing trash into the trash bag and things that can be recycled into the box.
• Take out the trash & Recycle Box

Organizing Task: Paper

• File all Paper Piles. If you don't have a File make one.
• Start a sorting system that will work for you. so these piles don't happen all over the house. 
• A bin for mail
• A Bin for things that need to be filed
• A bin of papers your Hubby needs to look at etc...

Click Here to read how I Organize my files

Routine: Sort Your Mail & Files

Find a time each week that works for you to sit down a sort your mail, sort your files and file them.

Baby Task: Start a Baby Binder

Get a binder where you can put all your baby info in.

10 Minute Only Task: Clean Off one Shelf in your home

Thursday:

Cleaning Task: Office

• De Clutter Office Desk
• Empty Trash
• Dust all surfaces
• Give Computer a good clean. Read How 
• Clean Window
• Pick up items off of floor
• Pick up item off of the floor so you can vacuum (Trash can, chair etc...)
• Clean Baseboards
• Vacuum Floor
• Place items Back on floor.

Organizing Task: Office Desk

• Organize your top of your desk in a way that works for you.
• Organize each drawer of you desk

De clutter Task: Top of Your Office Desk

De clutter Your Office desk! Do you have to many things on it? deco, supplies, pens, paper, junk. De clutter your desk find new homes for things that don't need to be on top of your desk. Put the stapler in the drawer. clean out some of the pens etc...

Routine: Desk

make it a Routine that before you leave your desk that you put everything away. never say you will come back to something! even if you're not completely done with something put it away or it might never get put away.

10 minute only task: Email

Unsubscribe from emails you don't want to get anymore

Friday:
Cleaning Task: Ceiling Fans

Clean all ceiling fans in your home
Read How Here 

Organizing Task: Calendar

Go throught the year and put all important Dates in your calendar, Anniversaries, Parties, appointments etc...

De Clutter Task: Junk Drawer

All homes have some kind of Drawer where it's kinda a throw all. In some homes this drawer can have order and be neat in other homes it can be the i can't ever find anything in here drawer. Today De clutter your junk drawer.

• Clean drawer out
• Give it a good Wipe down
• Place items you want to keep in there back in. Do so in a organized way.

Baby Task: Calendar

Add any baby stuff to your calendar. and look and see what dates will not work for the baby shower and be sure to give them to the host so they know not to plan on those dates.

Well That's It For This week! 
It May seen like a lot or it may seem like a little to you, Whatever the case work at your own speed. And never over work yourself remember you're pregnant and need rest, and you and the baby come before anything else so if you're getting tired take a break, drink or eat something!

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What Do you think Of this Week?

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Evening Routine

As I said in my earlier post about my Morning Routine that when I started trying to be a better housewife I was having a hard time getting everything done, as soon as I would clean something it was messy again.  

So I made myself a morning routine and an evening routine. It took some time for me to get them down and to make them a habit, and I found I needed to adjusting it as I went, tell I found what worked for me. and still to this day I change it a little from time to time. Hey life changes so, so do our routines.

<<See Morning Routine Here

Here is my Evening Routine

5:20pm Put a load in the wash (I have a laundry routine I follow to the T and now my hubby never says, "I'm out of underwear!").

5:25pm Start making dinner

6:00pm Serve dinner.  Eat as a family at the dinner table.

6:25pm Put wash load in the dryer or on the line.

6:30pm Make lunches for the next day.

6:40pm Tidy kitchen, do dishes, turn on dishwasher, wipe counter, quick vacuum the kitchen floor, under the dinning chairs and the front door entryway. I have the Swiffer SweeperVac that I use for a quick pick up.

6:55pm Clean up for bed (wash my face, put Pj's on etc...)

7:05pm Straighten up the bathroom

7:10pm Do a walk through of the house (picking up anything that is out of place and putting it in my keep box)

7:20pm Clean out keep box

7:30pm Relax with hubby until bed.  Maybe fold laundry if I'm up for it.

I Hope this gives you some good Ideas.

Let me know what your routine is like by commenting below or emailing me at contactus@ultimatehousewife.com

Morning Routine

When I started trying to be a better housewife I was having a hard time getting everything done, as soon as I would clean something it was messy again. The biggest thing that helped me keep my home Clean and keep me from going crazy was having Routine's and stinking to them. 

So I made myself a morning routine and an evening routine. It took some time for me to get them down and to make them a habit, and I found I needed to adjusting it as I went, tell I found what worked for me. and still to this day I change it a little from time to time. Hey life changes so, so do our routines.

So Here is My Morning Routine.

6:15AM Wake up & Shower

6:35AM Make Breakfast & Pack Lunch (Lunch was made the night before)

6:50AM Eat as a Family

7:05AM Unpack Dishwasher (It was ran the night before)

7:15AM Pack Dishwasher, Wipe Counter

7:25AM Put away Clean Laundry (It was Washed the night before) 

7:45AM Make Bed & Pick Up room (I don't do this when I first wake because my Hubby is still sleeping, and i always give the bed Time to air out, this is good to kill Germs)

8:00AM Finish Getting Dressed Make-up & Hair

8:20AM Wipe Over Bathroom

8:30AM Check To Do List and Calender

8:35AM If going somewhere put stuff by Door ready to go (Lunch, Purse, Keys, Jacket, shoes etc..)

8:45AM Off to were I need to be or If staying home for the Day I Start my Daily Task's 

                                                                                                                See Evening Routine Here>>

I Hope this can Give You some Ideas on How to make you Morning Routine and What to add. 

Please Comment Below Telling Use your Morning Routine!

Or And Tips you may have or feel free to email me at contactus@ultimatehousewife.com