Category Archives: 3in30 Challenge

Teaching Children Through Goal Setting

As parents we have a responsibility to teach our children how to be fully functioning adults. We not only need to teach them how to dress and feed themselves we also need to teach them both directly and by example … Continue reading

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Brief Update

It happened again. The first trimester ended and like a switch flipping suddenly my energy returned. Yesterday was the first day in several months that I haven’t desperately needed a nap by 12:30 pm and since nap-time is usually my … Continue reading

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3in30 Update: First Week of School

This was a bit of a topsy-turvy week as we all tried to get used to a new schedule of taking F to school at 8 am and picking him up around noon. Plus it rained heavily most of the … Continue reading

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September Goals: 3 in 30 Challenge

September already! Finally cooling off too, I’m down to only running the AC in the afternoon most days….starting to think about fall foods, fall gardens and what I need to do to better winterize this old house…. August recap: Physical: … Continue reading

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15 Minute Housekeeping-3in30 Update

I love this new method of doing the housework! It got a little messed up this week as I needed to run some errands one morning, but it was so easy to get things back on track by adding an … Continue reading

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3 A Day Rotation: 15 Minute Housekeeping

The other day my clean three rooms for 15 minutes each went so well, that I decided to make a rotation schedule for our whole house and follow it for four weeks. I’ll be reporting in each week on how … Continue reading

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15 Minute Housekeeping

Housekeeping is just not a natural for me. I like having things clean and neat but I’d so much rather do anything but clean… I’ve been trying lately though to get the house clean on Thursday and Friday- all laundry … Continue reading

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3in30 Update: Second Week of August

I missed the link-up last week, just had one of those days when I had too many things to do and not enough hours…. Here’s how things went this week: Cleaning off the table and half the counter before I … Continue reading

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August Goals: 3 In 30 Challenge

Well another month has flown by and it’s time to re-evaluate and figure out what I’m doing next. Yesterday I sat down and planned out a good bit of our second session of school which will start at the end … Continue reading

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Laundry Daze Part II

A while back I posted about how frustrating my laundry routine was and how much trouble I have getting the laundry done. I thought I should update you on how it’s going these days… I’ve started putting a load on … Continue reading

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