Large Family Logistics – Ideal for the family of 2 to the family of 20. A must have in my opinion for any size, the earlier on the better. Keeping life sane and glorious in the midst of pregnancy, babies, toddlers and up, homeschooling and life. The planning I mention below is a small, teensy bit of what the book covers.
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Kitchen Day –
I am still building this day into what I want it to look like. I am cleaning out 2 cupboards on this day. It is pretty lame yet, but I like space to grow and this is that day.
Jessica has been baking one large batch(10 dz) cookies of her choice using the Bosch(makes like simple) every Kitchen Day. Daddy is happy to be swimming in cookies every time he goes to the freezer(where only well seasoned cookie connoisseurs keep their cookies)
Pack away as many freezer meals as I feel like.
I wash all top sheets and bottom sheets today. 8 beds worth, usually 2 loads and hang them to dry if the Washington skies are not raining….again. I was dreaming about those summer clothes line days when my mother told me that back in her day, you hung clothes on the line, everyday. Outside if weather permitted, or in the garage if weather did not. She said she’d hang the clothes on the line on a 28 degree day. First the clothes would turn stiff as a board as they froze, then, as the ice evaporated, the clothes would become soft and start to flow in the breeze. That is when you knew it was time to take them down. 
One thing Kim mentions one thing that I have never considered before(and obviously appeals to the flesh!). It is to consider a reward for yourself after great accomplishments. My first thought was “A great way to waste money, encourage women to spend money on themselves”, something many of us don’t need prodding in. But after thinking on it and after I tackled some of the jobs I did like clean off the top of my fridge(ack), clean my laundry room which was our catchall room, organize the back porch(bazillions of shoes, boots, dirty ole socks and sandals scattered EVERYWHERE) it became apparent that it would prevent burnout. So I changed my thinking on that topic and after today, after I tackle that great Master Bedroom, I am going to buy myself….drum roll please….a meat baller!! Yes, this friendly little gadget I have secretively coveted ever since I bought it as a white elephant gift this last Christmas…and lost it to a friend ;(
Gotta go wipe peanut butter and jelly cheeks…
Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instructions as to how you ought to walk and please God that you excel still more. 1 Thess 4:1
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