Weekly House Cleaning

As a mother of six, weekly house cleaning can be a chore! Once a week, my older three children clean certain rooms in the house while I clean the bathroom and kitchen, or bake, or do laundry, or take care of the smaller children...okay, you get the idea! Well, I was finding that just giving the children instructions on "how to" clean each room (don't ask me how they forget week to week) was taking more time than I had. So, I took an idea from our years as houseparents and created a cleaning book. I went room by room and typed out detailed instructions on how to clean each room, slid them into clear sheet protectors, then placed them into a 3-ring binder. Now, the children can find the sheet for the room they are cleaning and take it out of the binder and take it with them. Since it's in a sheet protector they can mark each item with a dry erase marker as they complete it (so nothing is missed). It can then be wiped off before returning to the binder. Awww, I love organization!