Works For Me Wednesday: Master Lists

MAD21

Most who know me think I'm an organized person. (Boy do I have them fooled!) I am actually an ADHD procrastinator who has had to find ways of coping over the years so that I can actually accomplish the things I am responsible for. One of the methods I use that helps me is to create master lists.These are lists I keep for things we do more than once.

For example:

Vacations. Write out a list of the things everyone will need, everything. Then when you return home, go through the list again and add or subtract items you want to remember for next time. Keep this list and use it again and again, modifying it each time you go somewhere.

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Works For Me Wednesday: Cleaning Tips

By MAD21

This is a themed week for Works For Me Wednesday. We were asked to write on our favorite cleaning tips. I don't have any recipes for actual cleaning products, but being a neat freak/mother, I do have a few things I do to try and keep our house clean.

1. Touch it once. The fewer times you touch or move something, the more efficient. Some examples:

* When you get up in the morning, before you do anything else, make the bed.

* When you go get the mail, go through it as soon as you get inside and separate it into three piles: junk (to recycle); bills; and read later.

* Put clothes in the laundry basket or hang it up as soon a it comes off of your body.

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Works For Me Wednesday: Charts

By MAD21

For this weeks Works For Me Wednesday, I want to talk about charts. Ya-ya, I know. Every time you are having issues with your kids repeating undesirable behaviors, someone, somewhere says, "Well, make a chart...give them stickers." I have to say, I've worked with kids for a long time, and ...I really don't like doing them. That being said, I hate to admit, they usually work. I have my own kids now, and have pretty much avoided using charts until the last few months. I got really tired of 'going down the list' of all the things they were supposed to do everyday... everyday.

In our house, we have two charts. One is the "Responsibility Chart." This one is for both of our girls and it includes both the morning and evening routines. The other chart is the "Potty Chart" and this one is for our youngest daughter who is still having some issues with not wanting to use the toilet all the time.

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Works For Me Wednesday: Good Morning Light

By MAD21

Every Wednesday, fellow blogger Kristen at We are THAT Family posts clever ideas for getting things done. She calls it, "Works For Me Wednesday" or WFMW. I thought I would join in on the fun. Let's begin with...

Our blessed "Good Morning Light." Oh, how it has changed our mornings and the overall start of our days.

Let's begin with the fact that I am not [NOT] a morning person. Or should I say, I never used to be a morning person. Going on the proven fact that God has a sense of humor, not only did I marry a morning person, He gave me two wonderful daughters, a cat, and a dog who are all morning people/critters.

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