The first week of domesticization

The first week of staying at home with the boys went really well.  We went grocery shopping on Monday and Wednesday, met up with friends on Tuesday and Wednesday, and had a visit from family Wednesday through Thursday.  We were so busy, it feels like a blur.  And with all the activities during the week, I also started cleaning my own house again.  It has been almost 7 years since I've cleaned my own house.  When my husband and I got married, I received a piece of marriage advice from one of my eight aunts that we have employed these past 7 years.  That is, while both us are working, we've always hired someone to clean our house.  That way, our weekends could be spent enjoying each other, instead of cleaning the house.  When we decided I would stay home with the boys, the housekeeper was one of the first easiest nonessentials to go.  I was feeling ambitious, and came up with the following cleaning schedule:

Everyday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Dishes	Boy's Bathroom	Kitchen	Dining Room	Big Boy Room	Patio
Make beds	Half Bath	Family Room	Study	Baby Boy Room	Playroom
	Master Bath	Hallway	Laundry Room	Master	Stairs

 

I did pretty good Monday and Tuesday, but lost inspiration as the week went on.  Realistically, a perfectly clean house would be nice, but I like getting out too much to stick to cleaning the house EVERY week.  So I've decided to modify the schedule so that the rooms we really live in (bathrooms, kitchen, and living room) are cleaned every week, but the rooms we don't spend much time in are cleaned every other week.  This is called continuous improvement in the engineering world, aka we'll get something 80% there, and then spend till the end of time trying to complete to 100%, but never get there.  Anyways, here's the new cleaning schedule:

 

	Everyday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Week 1	Dishes	Boy's Bathroom	Kitchen		Dining Room	Laundry
	Make beds	Half Bath	Family Room		Study
		Master Bath	Hallway		Laundry Room
Week 2	Dishes	Big Boy  Room	Boy's Bathroom		Patio	Laundry
	Make beds	Baby Boy Room	Half Bath		Playroom	Change Sheets
		Master	Master Bath		Stairs



  

So I started working from the new schedule today.  While cleaning, I found a few things that had obviously never been cleaned.  The fan in the master bed room had so much dust on it that I had to vacuum the floor to clean up the mounds of dust from cleaning the blades.  And in Big Boy's room, I found an abandoned spider web that had once been a comfy home to your neighborly spider.  I'm not sure where the spider is though...