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Month: March 2010
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Great post on SimpleMom about establishing routines with kids
Tsh at The Art of Simple has an excellent article today with twenty ideas to help develop a routine at home when you have little kids around There’s nothing magical about any one particular routine — it’ll probably change in a month anyway, as routines often do with little ones in the house. But simply having some sort of written-out plan helps me know what’s next, how to stay focused, and not feel like I’m running in a hamster wheel. I love this thought. I…
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15 Minutes* in the Dining Room Hotspot of DOOM
I’ve got this pair of little black shelves in my dining room, and I had not been keeping up with it. Oh, no, I had not. But last week was dining room week in my focus zones, and something had to be done. So I set my HomeRoutines timer for 15 minutes and got on with it. To be honest, I had to set my timer twice, because I got kind of distracted by the kids and a text from my sister reminding me I…
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Routines: Good and bad examples
Creating your own routines is a great way to get in the habit of completing the regular tasks you do throughout the day. Everybody has some sort of routine, but it is not always a good one. A few years ago I had a really crappy morning routine. It involved waking up late, rummaging through a pile of washing, ironing something from the pile, brushing my teeth and running to the bus-stop without any breakfast. Then there was that one bus driver who would flash…