It’s a new week and that means it is time to share what my new goal will be this week. (If you are just joining us you may want to check out what this 11 week journey is all about.) So far, all of the goals have been personal. Now we are ready to start working on goals for our homes.
When I think back on all of my years of being a wife one of the household tasks that I seem to be the worst at is keeping my kitchen clean. I cook a lot. I have young children. I have other things I enjoy doing besides cleaning.
Obviously, I have a lot of excuses and, since I am not Rachel Ray who always used to say that the cook didn’t have to do the dishes, I don’t have a staff to clean up after I finish cooking.
Unless you eat out all of the time you probably have made your kitchen messy a time or two. While messy kitchens and cooking for a family can go hand in hand, it isn’t cool if this is what your kitchen looks like when you wake up in the morning.
This was how my kitchen looked a few months ago when I woke up. I wish I could say it was an isolated incident, but it wasn’t. Cleaning before you eat breakfast is no fun.
Why does this happen? Well, I have been guilty of falling asleep in the chair while getting a baby to sleep and not waking back up to clean up the kitchen. I have even gone to bed and left a mess like this on purpose because I just didn’t feel like dealing with it.
There, you now know one of my major housekeeping faults. So, what am I going to do about it?
This week I plan to take control of my messy kitchen. I will become disciplined through prayer and hard work so that I don’t wake up to a dirty kitchen anymore.
Since the mess happens throughout the day, I need to keep on top of loading and unloading the dishwasher as well as do any hand washing and not let everything wait until the kids are in bed.
I am looking forward to waking up to a clean kitchen every morning. Tonight I am already on top of this goal. I just have one cup that needs to go into the dishwasher and then I will start it and go to bed. When I wake up my kitchen will be clean. Yay!
Is this an area of home management that you need to work on, or am I the only one who has this problem?
If you are like me I just want to encourage you to try this week’s goal with me. I will try to post on Facebook each night before I got to bed to let you know whether my kitchen is clean or not.
I have one other goal for you this week. Last week I encouraged you to drink one (8 ounce) glass of water each day. This week I would like to encourage you to drink two glasses so that we can gradually work up to drinking 8 glasses of water each day.
To help keep us on track I have made a printable checklist that you can download and print by clicking the picture below.
I am looking forward to making this week’s goal into a habit. How about you?
