Making Your Home a Haven Monday: Refresher Series--Tackle the Bathrooms!
Happy Monday morning! Are you rested from a quiet weekend and ready to "hit the ground running" today in service to the Lord and your family?Today's Challenge:
1) Refresh Your Spirit (5 minutes)
As we've been doing in our recent challenges, take a few moments to sit down with a glass of iced tea or cup of coffee and quiet your heart before the Lord. Pray, read Scripture, and just encourage your heart in the Lord.
I encourage you to pick a special verse to meditate on today while you're going about your homemaking tasks and write it down on an index card and put it in a central location as a reminder.
If you have a moment, share with us what verse or verses you are meditating on today.
STOP: Is your morning routine done? Don't move on to #2 until it is!
2) Take Time to Plan (5 minutes)
In addition to writing out a short to-do list numbered in order of importance today like we did the past few weeks and thinking ahead to what you'll have for dinner tonight, take a moment to plan some special way to bless your family this week. Maybe it will be something like breakfast in bed for your children, or a treat for your husband, or a special family activity. Think of something special you can do which will express your love to your family.
Share your to-do list today and tonight's dinner menu, if you have a chance. Also, tell us about the special idea you came up with to bless your family this week.
3) Do Something! (15 minutes or so)
Today we're going to focus on a quick pick up, run some laundry, and then tackle the bathrooms. Light a candle, put on your apron, turn on some uplifting music, and get working!
Set your timer for five minutes and do a quick pick up of your entryway, living room, and laundry room. Also, while you're at it, start a load of laundry.
And then let's get busy cleaning the bathrooms. If you have the time, feel free to deep clean them from top to bottom. However, if you are short on time, just pick up and put away anything that's out of place, spray and wipe all surfaces with all-purpose cleaner, and change the towels. A quick-clean like this can take less than three minutes and can make a huge difference!
Post pictures of your shiny clean bathrooms when you're done to motivate all of us! I can't wait to see how you bless your families with a home that is clean, clutter-free, and a welcoming haven! Lord-willing, I'll share a peek into our day later on this afternoon or evening.---------------------
Would you like to join us in this "Making Your Home a Haven" Challenge? Just do one or more of the challenges listed above or something else related to "making your home a haven" and post about it on your blog. Come back here and leave your link below so that we can be inspired! As always, if you don't have a blog, feel free to tell us about your accomplishments in the comments section. Thanks for joining us!
Labels: Making Your Home a Haven
posted by Crystal Paine at 10:00 PM
10 Comments:
Bathrooms are the tough ones! I always try to schedule bathroom cleaning every Monday! Our bathroom gets so messy after the weekend. I love to start the week out with a fresh smelling bathroom! Thanks, Michelle
Dear Crystal
I love your ideas for refresher monday. This morning I feel I have really achieved it! The bathroom is clean and sparkly, the lounge has been de-cluttered, I had a lovely chat with my mum on the phone, Have replied to my emails, put out the recyling for collection later and also planned the meals for the week. Your tips really help and are helping me focus.
So what delights does my husband have in store for his dinner tonight? In trying to make our pennies go further I have been trying out the local supermarket "feed your family for a fiver" recipes(This is the UK so i guess that is about $10 or there abouts.) So I reduce the quantities and make it for 2. Tonight it is fish cakes:
http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/family/
tasty+ideas/feed_family_for_a_fiver/
meal_ideas/salmon_fishcakes.htm
I'll let you know if they are any good.
Have a lovely monday
Lindsay
Crystal, This is Michelle. I just started blogging last week. However I have been reading your blog for well over a year now!! You have inspired and challenged me in so many ways. I am writing because I don't know how to link your post (example Making Your Home a Haven Monday)I have seen it done on lots of other blogs.
I not very computer literate, so please forgive me as I stumble around this blogging thing.
The downstairs bathroom is the one I have to keep up with.It is also decorated the best so guests will enjoy it.Now the upstairs hall bathroom is a different story.2 teenagers share it and they are in charge of cleaning it!
Crystal...this is off topic but something that has been on my mind. Could you please tell us about the girls' play things and how their rooms are decorated. I know that you have mentioned your aversion to fantasy, and this is something I wonder about as well. Also, how do you keep away from the cartoon characters that seem to be on everything...shoes, bags, etc? Thank you.
You've got to love the motivation of sharing your cleaning stories! :D Thanks for providing a forum to do so!
Do any of you have some tips for how to clean a tub/shower? I can't seem to really get it good.
Thanks! (can you tell i am a newlywed?? eek! :)
What an inspiration! Bathrooms here (especially the main bath)need a tidy twice a day. Each of my teens has a bathroom to clean. I just bought a neet little wand with a flat scrubber on the tip to reach the corners and far sides of the tub. Our is a deep soaker tub and I'm short, so it keeps me from falling in head first it. A mop works too.
Thanks Crystal! I can't wait to read everyone elses cleaning sagas.
I didn't get a chance to post over at my blog, but I did get some bathroom stuff done Monday. Really, wiping everything down with some cleaner (including the mirror and window) makes a huge difference. A change of the towels and you'd almost believe the whole room really was clean.
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