{"id":26627,"date":"2014-10-17T09:37:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T13:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blessingsmultiplied.com\/?p=26627"},"modified":"2014-10-17T09:37:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T13:37:22","slug":"breakfast-will-served","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/?p=26627","title":{"rendered":"Order Will Be Restored in this House!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Either the girls forgot the house rules or got a little spoiled with all our traveling and busy summer!\u00a0 With everything going on this summer instead of waiting for them to pick up and turn their clothes right side out for laundry day I would just do it since I needed to repack the suitcase or wanted to get the house pick up.\u00a0 The beginning of the school year got off to a rough start in house department because they must of thought it was okay or normal to just throw their clothes on the bathroom floor before their showers, leave headbands on the sink, and other random items placed in odd spots through the house and their rooms.<\/p>\n

After several days of being nice and reminding them to pick up after themselves I decided it was time to do something else to get their attention.\u00a0 On that particular night I had already wading through their piles of clothes on the bathroom floor, picked up pieces of confetti paper off the dining room floor, put away their library books, placed more items than their bar stools would hold to be put away, and more craziness.\u00a0 In my quest to pick of the house I found a piece of notebook paper on the kitchen floor and scribbled out my note.\u00a0 The deal was either you pick up your stuff or breakfast will not be served that morning (and yes it was a school morning).\u00a0 I let Jake read my note first just in case I was being too zealous with my request.\u00a0 My first comment to him was “Order will be restored in this house!”\u00a0 Jake thought it was hilarious!<\/p>\n

Guess what!?\u00a0 IT WORKED!!!\u00a0 You should have seen the girls reactions when they came to breakfast and saw the note on the counter instead of their food.\u00a0 Too funny!\u00a0 The next few minutes were a whirlwind of\u00a0 them scurrying around the house to put all their stuff away.\u00a0 They got everything done and in record time too.\u00a0 They both even got to eat breakfast that morning!\u00a0 The biggest benefit though was that it reminded them of their responsibilities and while we to still have an off day once in a great while it has been MUCH better.<\/p>\n

When everyone in the family works together to put away their items in the proper places the whole family can enjoy a much more livable house.\u00a0 I don’t mind cleaning, but really don’t want to be a full time personal maid when everyone is perfectly capable of helping out. \u00a0 No more wading through piles of clothes, tripping over shoes, washing my hands with headbands in the sink, or random items spread throughout the house!<\/p>\n

Hopefully this will be the last time I have to remind them.\u00a0 It wasn’t a fancy note and it was done a little off the cuff, but hey the message got across and it served it’s purpose!\u00a0 I have debated back and forth whether or not to share this with you than decided that if I am going through this in my house it is probably happening in at least a couple other homes somewhere.\u00a0 Maybe?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Either the girls forgot the house rules or got a little spoiled with all our traveling and busy summer!\u00a0 With everything going on this summer instead of waiting for them to pick up and turn their clothes right side out for laundry day I would just do it since I needed to repack the suitcase or wanted to get the house pick up.\u00a0 The beginning of the school year got off to a rough start in house department because they must of thought it was okay or normal to just throw their clothes on the bathroom floor before their showers, leave headbands on the sink, and other random items placed in odd spots through the house and their rooms. After several days of being nice and reminding them to pick up after themselves I decided it was time to do something else to get their attention.\u00a0 On that particular night I had already wading through their piles of clothes on the bathroom floor, picked up pieces of confetti paper off the dining room floor, put away their library books, placed more items than their bar stools would hold to be put away, and more craziness.\u00a0 In my quest to pick of the house I found a piece of notebook paper on the kitchen floor and scribbled out my note.\u00a0 The deal was either you pick up your stuff or breakfast will not be served that morning (and yes it was a school morning).\u00a0 I let Jake read my note first just in case I was being too zealous with my request.\u00a0 My first comment to him was “Order will be restored in this house!”\u00a0 Jake thought it was hilarious! Guess what!?\u00a0 IT WORKED!!!\u00a0 You should have seen the girls reactions when they came to breakfast and saw the note on the counter instead of their food.\u00a0 Too funny!\u00a0 The next few minutes were a whirlwind of\u00a0 them scurrying around the house to put all their stuff away.\u00a0 They got everything done and in record time too.\u00a0 They both even got to eat breakfast that morning!\u00a0 The biggest benefit though was that it reminded them of their responsibilities and while we to still have an off day once in a great while it has been MUCH better. When everyone in the family works together to put away their items in the proper places the whole family can enjoy a much more livable house.\u00a0 I don’t mind cleaning, but really don’t want to be a full time personal maid when everyone is perfectly capable of helping out. \u00a0 No more wading through piles of clothes, tripping over shoes, washing my hands with headbands in the sink, or random items spread throughout the house! Hopefully this will be the last time I have to remind them.\u00a0 It wasn’t a fancy note and it was done a little off the cuff, but hey the message got across and it served it’s purpose!\u00a0 I have debated back and forth whether or not to share this with you than decided that if I am going through this in my house it is probably happening in at least a couple other homes somewhere.\u00a0 Maybe?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[70,73,16,76,77,81,23,25,40,43],"tags":[2058,3073,3085,4535,4626,4627,7822,11482,12158,12166,12170,12188,12424,13788,13901,14113,14387,14846,17025,17026,17027,17028,17315,18136,18140,18824,18932,23347,26360],"class_list":["post-26627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goals","category-intentional-living","category-kids","category-life-lessons","category-life-simplified","category-organization","category-organized-chaos-3","category-raising-multiples","category-teaching-our-children-2","category-twins","tag-being-responsible","tag-breakfast","tag-breakfast-note","tag-cleaning-house","tag-clothes-on-bathroom-floor","tag-clothes-turned-right-side-out","tag-family-working-together","tag-headbands-in-sink","tag-house-chores","tag-house-rules","tag-household-chores","tag-household-rules","tag-how-to-keep-your-house-clean","tag-keeping-a-clean-house","tag-kids","tag-kids-picking-up","tag-laundry-day","tag-livable-house","tag-note-to-kids","tag-note-to-kids-about-breakfast","tag-note-to-kids-about-chores","tag-note-to-kids-about-picking-up","tag-order-will-be-restored","tag-picking-up","tag-picking-up-the-house","tag-proper-places","tag-putting-stuff-away","tag-teaching-kids-to-be-responsible","tag-working-together"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcnfwQ-6Vt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}