A day in the life of Heidi and ways to not feel overwhelmed by house work

I love schedules and lists.  My life just runs smoother that way!  Now that I am FINALLY done with school (well almost) I can have a normal routine.  Here is a day in the life of Heidi:

6:00 am wake up, treadmill, shower
7:00 am get Emmett and have breakfast before Greg leaves for work
8:00 am clean up breakfast and doing 5 minute rule and daily chore, balancing check book and paying bills
9:30 am Get me and Em ready for the day
10:00 am walk or play outside
11:00 am errands or just chill
12:00 pm Greg comes home for lunch
12:45 pm Emmett nap, clean up lunch
1:00 pm Work
4:00 pm Get Em and snack time.  Start dinner or play outside
5:00 pm Greg gets home and dinner prep
6:00 pm Dinner, clean up dinner, play, and evening walk
7:15 pm Bath and bedtime routine
7:40 pm Em goes to bed
8:00 pm Hang out with Greg
10:30 pm Bed

Everyone loves a clean house and few people I know enjoy cleaning.  Well I found a great cleaning schedule for me that makes it so my house is always clean and that the cleaning is not overwhelming!  Above I mentioned 5 minute rule and daily chore, they are explained below.

Five Minute Rule: Go though each room in the house and do a quick spiff putting things away, etc.   The kitchen is the longest because it involves unloading the dishwasher, wiping the counters, and doing the dishes.  Bathroom is wiping the mirror, sink and counters, and cleaning the toilet.  Bedrooms involves making the bed, changing the sheets (once a week) and doing any laundry.  Living room/dining room is a quick pick up. 

Daily Chore:
Monday-Sweeping
Tuesday-Vacuuming
Wednesday-Deep clean
     1st Wed, Kitchen-wiping cupboards, trash can, microwave, oven/stove top, fridge, dust, windows
     2nd Wed, Bathroom-cleaning tub and tile, washing bath mats, dust windows
     3rd Wed, Main living areas- vacuuming under furniture and cleaning furniture, dust, windows
     4th Wed, Bedrooms/Office-dust and windows
Thursday-Sweeping and mopping
Friday-Vacuuming
Saturday-Yard
Sunday-Break!

With doing the dishes I clean up right after a meal, put the dishes in the dishwasher and wash the ones that need to be hand washed.  This way the kitchen never feels overwhelming and it is always clean!

I do two week grocery shopping in Idaho Falls.  This means I plan out our menu for two weeks.  This makes it easy when it comes to meal time because I already know what I am going to make and I have all the ingredients for it!  Nothing is worse then trying to figure out what to have for dinner when you should have already started making it.

I love that I get to be a stay at home mom.  I take great pride in my family and the way my house looks and now I have the time to do those things!  Em and I have been having fun going to the library.  We went to story time yesterday and Em had fun.  Tomorrow we are going to go to music time.  We all like to read so the library is our new favorite place!

 These two are so silly together!

This past weekend we had a Pearce family vacation in Island Park and Yellowstone.  It was fun to hang out with everyone!!

A tour of the house

I will give you a little tour of our new house.  I love old houses they have so much character!

The front of the house

 

  

 When you walk in to the right is the play room

And to the left is the living room

 

The dinning room

The Kitchen

Mine and Greg's Bathroom

Then you go upstairs

This is the master bedroom which also serves as the laundry room andCyris room

Emmett's Bathroom

Emmett's Bedroom

 

 

 

We are now the Idaho Pearces!  Greg got a job with AMET as a mechanical design engineer.  The company makes automated welding systems.  We are SO grateful for the wonderful job Greg has with great pay and benefits!  Heavenly Father always has a plan for us it just takes some faith and patience that he knows us and our needs.  We have a always like the Idaho Falls area and have now ended up here!  Rexburg is certainly an interesting town with it mostly existing because of BYU Idaho.  I have seen quite a few Aggie shirts though so maybe Rexburg won't be so bad after all ;).  With some more help from Heavenly Father we found a place that lets us have Cyris.  Greg and I spent 2 whole days looking online for places to rent.  There were two places that would let us have pets, a 700 square foot apartment and a 2000 square foot house.  I don't even know how I found the link to the house because I could not find it again later but we ended up getting it!  It is a cute house with 4 bedrooms and a huge fenced yard.  With the extra bedrooms we have a guest room and an office.  The yard has the potential for greatness if only Cyris would go out there by himself without crying, sheesh!  The only thing we don't like about the house is that is has all wood floors that are very old making them hard to clean.  My OCD has been on overdrive about no body being able to walk around without socks or shoes on.  We did find a great price on some carpets so the main living areas have carpet now and I finally found a hardwood floor moping solution that seems to be picking up some dirt!  Once I find the camera I will take pictures of the house.  I am loving being at home with Emmett and Cyris.  I already have a nice little routine down.  Another amazing blessing from Heavenly Father is that I have a part time job!  At the beginning of May I had an interview with Golder in Tucson.  It would have been a wonderful job and I thought Tucson and the desert were amazing but Greg and I wanted him to work and me to stay at home.  I was offered the position and we accepted that maybe for now Heavenly Father needed us to keep our reversed roles.  2 days later Greg was offered the position here is Rexburg (YAY!!!) and when I called to turn down the position they offered for me to work part time from home doing groundwater modeling!!  I start on the 18th and with the amazing pay they are giving we plan to save it all and buy a house next year!  Picture to come of our new lives in the next post.