I want to not only get better at housework, but teach my children to keep things tidy as well. I decided for the next few weeks to concentrate on making the beds. We all get a blob if our bed is properly made in the morning (no toys dumped on the bed, and in my case no piles of clean clothes laid all over the bed). When we have at least 25 blobs each I’ll buy a new swing for the garden, as our old one was so corroded it had to be dismantled. The new swing will be a big wooden one, to take adults as well.
I’m hoping that by starting small we can form the habit and it will be easier to add in new habits once this one is properly established. In the meantime I’m enjoying earning my blob every morning! The only one excused from bedmaking is DH, and that’s his privilege because he is always the first one out of it in the mornings.
We can earn extra blobs for doing at least half an hour’s work around the house or garden – three of us earned them for mowing the grass and strimming the garden.