Firdays at my house....

.... finds us all running around here busy as bees doing our weekly cleaning!!

Firday is the day each week I do all the majour house cleaning and prepare for the Sabbath, usually do exrta cooking as well.

My weekly cleaning consists of sweeping and moping, vacuming the couches ( though sadly we don't end up doing it every week)Clean the bath room throughly ( bathtub, sink, tolits) sweep and tidy the porch, dusting, kids tidy up thier room, and all toys and books are picked up in living room.

I make a list of all chores to be done and the boys, mostly just the 2 oldest at this point, begin choosing a job and hurry to do it. They do all they can and I finish up the rest, like the bathtub, final cleaning around tolits, making sure the couches are vacumed good, and sweeping (thats a big job, because its the whole house). After I sweep the kids mop.

Also all reminging laundry is did up, and the kids fold the clothes and put them a way. I do laundy every other day so this is usually not that much, but thats when I do alll the towels.

I don't do the ceiling fans weekly by no menas ( more like every couple months), but when I do them they are done on Firday as well. And the windows when they need done.
Also the cleaning of our van ( about evey other week on that).

I like the weekly cleaning ,( not the actuall work of course) but the fact that there is a day that I know things are going to get cleaned. I can relax during the week because I know its all going to be tooken care of on Firday. We acutally call the Friday cleaning our Firday chores! Thats what we called them growing up as a child when we did the weekly cleaning also.

So since we use Firdays to clean and prepare for Sabbath, I try to cut out anything eles on that day. I try very hard not to make a trip to town, though sotimes an appoinment will fall on that day, or a last mintue arrend needs to be run.

And a new exciting thing I have just recently cut out on Firdays is school!!! Of course school is over for the summmer now, but just 3 weeks before my last son was done, I came up on this wonderful thing!!

So heres how I do now, school is done Sunday - Thuresday. Firday and Sabbath is our off days. Extra work that I would put off for Sunday because of lack of time on Firday is now moved to Firday, like the van.

And Firday is not stressful for me anymore!! I use to try to cram school, cleaning, and extra cooking all on that day, and it wore me out. I would totally dread Firdays. Not no more!! I can not belive I did not come up with this years ago!

So bring on the Fridays, I got 'em covered!!


( I plan to talk more about our new school schudele in another post.)