FlyLady is spreading.....

I'm happy to report as this month comes to an end, that I have managed to keep the kitchen almost Flylady approved status all month. There was a couple of times, that I didn't do it, or only did my kitchen sinnk, but that is a huge improvement compared to what it has been this winter.

Funny thing has started to happen: FlyLady is getting Jessi,the kids, and my daycare kids on board too, without them realizing it. It's been really easy this last week or so in getting my daycare kids to help clean up after themselves (3-4yr olds I mean). Last weekend Jessie had Dawn & Spencer clean the livingroom, and I mean really clean it. They moved all the furniture, cleaned up the toys, dusted and vaccumed. He then had them pick 2 of the bathrooms to clean, Dawn did the upstairs, and Spencer, did the main floor one. It's been amazing this past week how it's only taken a little bit of prompting to get them to pick up after themselves, and keep those areas clean. Plus I reminded them, and my oldest daycare girl a couple of times "Your maid has left the building, please do...." Even Cyril helped out too. lol. He took about a half a bottle of Windex to clean the windows that he could reach, but he helped.

Now today, we deep cleaned the upstairs bedrooms. Dawn for the most part has been keeping her room clean since this fall. She is trying to prove that she is old enough to stay up later then 8-8:30 on a school night. So she didn't have too much to do, the boys' room on the other hand is a completely different story. We still did to their rooms like we did to the livingroom last weekend. We moved all the furniture...okay I didn't move any furniture, Jessie & the kids did. Then we vaccumed, or swiffered the floor, dusted and etc. It's so nice to go upstairs and see how clean their rooms are. I'm hoping that Spencer, will do a better job at keeping his side of the boys' room clean, but we'll see. That's a work in progress all of it's own.

Now if we can keep the main rooms and upstairs clean, that will be a nice present to ourselves. I'm still thinking of printing off some Riley challenges that the FlyLady has for kids, and see if we can't build some great habits in the kids, especially the older two. Cyril has been doing a great job, he loves to help clean, now if I can just "let" him do it, and be okay with the imperfections. I hope that I will encourage some great habits, and undo the old ones.

God Bless~
Carlena