Spring is here, and it is our theme her on The Front Porch this week!
Have you started your spring fling that I wrote about a few weeks back? I’ve not been as good at flinging as I should be, so that's my own focus for the week.
If you are done with your spring fling, dive into spring cleaning! My best advice on this is, "Just do it." Sure, there are methods, some better than others, but essentially whatever it takes for you to get it done is a good system!
Sometimes though, the method makes all the difference–especially when we need to get geared up and motivated. I personally enjoy a modified version of Jeff Campbell’s Speed Cleaning. It is a great book for streamlining and speeding up your cleaning routine, taken from studying the methods of professional cleaning services.
Another book that inspires me that is more about "why" than how (and not strictly about cleaning, but about the many facets of homemaking) is Where's Mom?: The High Calling of Wives and Mothers
by Dorthy Kelley Patterson. Here’s one quote that Jumped out at me:
"Homemaking--if pursued with energy, imagination, and skills--has much challenge and opportunity, success, failure, growth and expansion, perks and incentives as any corporation, plus something no other position offers--working for people you love most and want to please the most!"
Where's Mom? by Dorothy Kelley Patterson
We all have different things we enjoy, and different things that seem drudgerous, but much of homemaking has a nearly infinite creative potential--even cleaning! Tame the chaos and clean the windows this week: Your outlook will be clearer!
Domestic Chaos Tamer and Homeschool Mom of Five, Dell writes about home, heart and hearth.
