Life with Our Magnificent 7: Holiday Planning 2014 WEEK 1

Welcome to the chaos we call our life & family!

My DH often says this is the chaos we like to call our family, or something to that effect. To answer the basic questions we here often: Yes! With 7 children we are busy! Yes! It often gets hectic, chaotic, crazy, & overwhelming, we love it anyway! No! We do not wish we had a smaller family we can't imagine our lives with less children, we love them all! Yes! It's tricky co-ordinating everyones schedules thank goodness for the FLYlady calendar (if you haven't heard of FLYlady I really recommend looking up her site!). Yes! We do cook a LOT of food, and we eat all or most of it in one sitting! No! You probably do not want to see our grocery bill, or how much we spend on clothes, footwear, sports, etc. each year! ;-) UPDATE 2019: We now have 1 of the original 7 that lives at home. We have added a 3 wonderful daughter-in-laws and an awesome son-in law, as well as 3 beautiful granddaughters and 3 handsome grandsons with our oldest 4. We have 2 adult daughters who have also moved to their own places.

Chaos, maybe, boring, NEVER! There is almost always something going on in our home, never a dull moment from the adult perspective anyway... you know kids, if it gets "too quiet" they are sure it's a sign of being bored! LOL

In 2008 we moved into a new "project home" I have posted some of the fun & craziness that has happened while replacing flooring, adding a furnace, roof, pantry, texture to the walls redoing a kitchen and much more.

2019 UPDATE: WE NOW have purchased a new "prject home = rehab home" that we hope to move into by the end of September 2019! Again feel free to join us for the ride as we continue our new adventure to upgrade get our home ready for move in! It has been interesting to say the very least!

Monday, September 1, 2014

Holiday Planning 2014 WEEK 1

If I am going to achieve this... I need to do this weeks list & every following week, time to get moving!

Anything that has a line through the step to take is something I have finished, I'll have to update soon when I have a little more accomplished, got to love catch-up!

September 1 - 6

Holiday Planning - Week 1 - Entry- Focus Planning & Paperwork

DEEP CLEAN:

~~House Walkway~~

~~Exterior Entry~~

~~Interior Entry~~

ZONE 1 - ENTRY:

~~Clean Windows & Screens~~

~~Clean Window Sills~~

~~Clean Outside Entrance Area & Walkway~~

~~Clean/Touch-up~~

MAKE, PRINT, & DO THE FOLLOWING:

Setup a Holiday Planning Center

Setup a Holiday Savings

~~Print Houseworks Holiday Plan Forms~~

~~Master Gift List (Form)~~

~~Holiday Budget ( Form)~~

~~Family Values Worksheet (Form)~~

~~Holiday Traditions (Form)~~

~~Chore Checklist (Form)~~

~~Room-by-Room Decor (Form)~~

~~Weekly Checklist (Form)~~

~~Individual Room Pages on HGP Cleaning Checklist (Form)~~

~~Weekly Planner 1 (Form)~~

~~Weekly Planner 2 (Form)~~

~~Christmas Card List (Form)~~

~~Calendars (Form)~~

~~Get Organized Week (Form)~~

~~Reality Check Week (Form)~~

~~Gifts 'n Giving Week (Form)~~

~~Get Cooking Week (Form)~~

~~Decorate Week, Celebrate Week (Form)~~

~~This Years Christmas Countdown Calendar (Form)~~

~~Kids/family Gifts (Form)~~

~~School & Church Gifts - Teachers & Kids Friends~~

UPDATE LISTS:

Shopping List

Christmas Card List

Decide How Many Cards to Buy

Set Dates for Parties/Entertaining

~~Make a Planning Section For Parties (Made Halloween Notebook & Thanksgiving Notebook)~~

~~Fill in Calendar Dates in Day Planner & On the Family Calendar~~

Buy Canning Jars for Gifts in a Jar (Buy after bottling season, still bottling)

Baked Goods for Sharing/Gift. Decide how much to make & divide It

FILL IN CHART FOR BAKED GOODS:

Cookies Needed

Cakes Needed

Candy Needed

ITEMS NEEDED:

_____ Flour _____Baking Powder _____Choc Chips

_____ Sugar _____ Baking Soda _____ Mint Chips

_____ Cocoa _____ Shortening _____ White Chips

_____ Butter _____ Butter Shortening _____ Mini M&M's

_____ Veg Oil _____ Baking Spray _____ Color Chips

_____ Eggs _____ Brown Sugar _____ Dark Chocolate

_____ Vanilla _____ Powder Sugar _____ White Chocolate

_____ Lemon Ext _____ Peanut Butter _____ Sucker Sticks

_____ Almond Ext _____ Cooking Spray _____ Sucker Bags

_____ Mint Ext _____ Peppermint Ext _____ Peppermint Ext

Monday, September 1, 2014

Holiday Planning 2014 WEEK 1

Anything that has a line through the step to take is something I have finished, I'll have to update soon when I have a little more accomplished, got to love catch-up!

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