Some Motivation

At some point along my journey of learning to keep house, I realized that I was being very much like my creative heavenly Father when I was cleaning up. Creating order out of chaos—what could be more like Him? He had to sort and classify and organize, and that’s what managing a household requires. Laying down a foundation of order is a highly creative act in itself, and get this, the order that is created produces more creativity. After all, it is the presence of order in a home that provides the clear table top to work on for the next project. It is order that allows you to find those scalloped paper scissors when you need them, or not waste 10 minutes looking for the fabric glue.

A continuation of My House Is Never A Mess, Kindly see here if you have missed part 1 and Part 2.

5. Divvy up responsibilities (divide and conquer). Have a chore list and allow each child the privilege of having responsibility for a particular area of public use (not his room) for the week, along with taking care of his own room, of course. I never had to clean a bathroom once the children were old enough (6 or 7) to do them. Then they began graduating from high school and I found myself asking, what is this brush for? What do you clean the toilet with? How did you keep hard water minerals off the sink? Well, it was almost like that. It sort of shocked me when I realized how unfamiliar it felt to scrub a toilet!