While I was going crazy this past year my husband in his wisdom reminded me of the story of Moses. Moses was trying to take care of all things all on his own and was being completely unsuccessful in everything. It was pointed out to him that there was no way he could do it all and then he began to delegate responsibilities. After he handed out some of his own responsibilities to others, Moses was very successful in the things he had more time for.
This past school year I have spent my week nights exhausted and my weekends even more exhausted because I was cooking, cleaning up, doing laundry, and the housework on my own while working at least 50 hours outside the home. I absolutely hated to go on family outings because it put me behind on everything. It isn't really my family's fault, I've never delegated anything to them before. One of my goals this summer was to create routines and chores for myself and my children and to put them into practice during the summer so they are second nature to us by the time we return to school.
I saw the idea of picture frames somewhere on Pinterest. They are great because you can use the dry erase markers on them and change out the pages in the frames fairly easily. I created a frame for each family member and then one for weekly shared household chores. I've hung these in my kitchen where everyone can easily see their routines and chores. These could definitely be put on a fancy scrapbooking paper or stationary to make it look fancier.
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| Dollar Store frames and copy paper written on (don't laugh at my writing or attempt of decoration) |
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| These are my daily routines and a laundry schedule. |
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| Chores - I write names next to the chore weekly. |
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| Claire's daily routines |
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| Cayleen's daily routines with pictures |
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| Cassidy's daily routines |
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