Momma Olympics – Heart and Home Edition -The Kitchen Windows

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Momma Olympics – Heart and Home Edition

 The Kitchen  Windows

Week Two

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Walt Whitman

I love a clean shiny kitchen window. Even if the view is not the best in the world, it is a view!

Simple Daily Challenge for today’s Momma Olympics: – 100 points

  • Grab you window cleaning tools.
  • Clean the windows with a spring in your step and song in your heart.

Here is a simple recipe for window cleaning in a more natural way.  Add two table spoons of vinegar to a gallon of water, pour into a clean empty spray bottle and BAM, you have an excellent window cleaner. I use microfiber towels to clean our windows as we do not buy newspapers and in a pinch I will use paper towels.

New Here???  Here are the Momma-Olympics Game Rules and Point System.

 

Here are the game rules:  Simply grab a pad and paper and add up the points your earn for each of the items listed below.  You get points for general housework as well as points for Simple Daily Challenges that will be posted throughout Momma-Olympics and our focus for this event is Heart and Home with a dash of Back To School.  You can share you tallied up points at the end of the day in comments or on Facebook

 

How many points can you earn each day during the Momma Olympics?  As many as your heart desires and time allows!

 

  • Make a bed. =10 points
  • Clean bathroom sink, quick clean-up of the toilet bowl and wipe bathroom countertop. = 25 points.Momma Olympics Summer 2014-001
  • Load of Dishes =  25 points
  • Load of Laundry =   25 points
  • Vacuum, sweep, or mop a floor. =   25 points
  • Take out Trash =  5 points per bag or can.
  • Plan and make breakfast or lunch. = 10 points
  • Plan and Make dinner one night.=   25 points
  • Clutter Donate or  Toss it Away! = 1 point per item flung or donated. <<<<<—— MY FAVORITE
  • Clean kitchen sink and wipe down counters =  25 points
  • Home Office Management = 100 points for 15 minutes (finances, meal planning and scheduling)
  • Healthy You – 25 points for daily exercise or movement and 25 points for daily meal tracking.
  • Simple Daily Challenges = Up to three per day  for 100 points each.

 

Have a Rocking Day!

 

Momma Olympics – Heart and Home Edition – The Kitchen Pantry

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Momma Olympics – Heart and Home Edition

 The Kitchen  Pantry

Week Two

Cleanliness is very important. If you let kids make a total mess in the kitchen and then leave, you’re not really teaching them anything.

Emeril Lagasse

Organize the Kitchen Pantry Fast!

The kitchen pantry can either be a tool that helps with organized kitchen flow or it can be a place of mild stress that keeps us guessing and cursing as we make dinner each night.
Today we are going to tackle the kitchen pantry in three easy steps!

TOSS

Grab a trash can and drag it to the pantry, toss out old stuff, questionable stuff. Donate what you will not use that would be serviceable to a homeless or people in need food pantry.

CLEAN

Take everything out and clean each shelf, make sure to dust first or it will just cause extra work. I use a microfiber cloth to dust and then a damp rag to clean finishing with a dry towel to buff. As long as you clean the pantry every couple of months or so this should be enough to do the trick.

TIDY

Organize the shelves grouping like items together and placing small seasoning packets in a basket or bin so that do not get lost in the shuffle.

This Simple Daily Challenge is worth 100 points in our Momma Olympics!  Woot!

New Here???  Here are the Momma-Olympics Game Rules and Point System.

Here are the game rules:  Simply grab a pad and paper and add up the points your earn for each of the items listed below.  You get points for general housework as well as points for Simple Daily Challenges that will be posted throughout Momma-Olympics and our focus for this event is Heart and Home with a dash of Back To School.  You can share you tallied up points at the end of the day in comments or on Facebook

How many points can you earn each day during the Momma Olympics?  As many as your heart desires and time allows!

  • Make a bed. =10 points
  • Clean bathroom sink, quick clean-up of the toilet bowl and wipe bathroom countertop. = 25 points.Momma Olympics Summer 2014-001
  • Load of Dishes =  25 points
  • Load of Laundry =   25 points
  • Vacuum, sweep, or mop a floor. =   25 points
  • Take out Trash =  5 points per bag or can.
  • Plan and make breakfast or lunch. = 10 points
  • Plan and Make dinner one night.=   25 points
  • Clutter Donate or  Toss it Away! = 1 point per item flung or donated. <<<<<—— MY FAVORITE
  • Clean kitchen sink and wipe down counters =  25 points
  • Home Office Management = 100 points for 15 minutes (finances, meal planning and scheduling)
  • Healthy You – 25 points for daily exercise or movement and 25 points for daily meal tracking.
  • Simple Daily Challenges = Up to three per day  for 100 points each.
Have a Rocking Day!

 

Momma Olympics – Heart and Home Edition – The Kitchen – The Refrigerator

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Momma Olympics – Heart and Home Edition

 The Kitchen – The Refrigerator

Week Two

My mom had Julia Child and ‘The Fannie Farmer Cookbook’ on top of the refrigerator,

and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

Anthony Bourdain

There is something so personal about a refrigerator. It not only houses the foods we love and enjoy, keeping veggies crisp and milk cold it many times holds our children’s art, photos of interesting cars and comics and coupon clippins from the Sunday paper.   It is as unique as the personality of our family. The one common ground that all refrigerators hold is that they get pretty messy on the inside despite how careful we are to wipe up spills as we go.

Today we are tackling the refrigerator!

Let’s Get Started:

Simple Daily Challenge – 100 points!

  1. Empty the all contents of refrigerator/freezer and please throw away the old and icky stuff.
  2. Wipe down shelves with a damp microfiber towel or scrub it with a bit of baking soda and a scratch-proof sponge, then rinse with clean water.
  3. Dry the shelves with a clean cloth.
  4. Replace items in a logical order. (my personal weak spot)
  5. Give the front of the refrigerator a good cleaning with a cleaning product that matches the material on the outside paying particular attention to the handles because they get pretty gross.
  6.  You may need to defrost the freezer, if so then schedule this in on a day you make time for the entire process.

New Here???  Here are the Momma-Olympics Game Rules and Point System.

Here are the game rules:  Simply grab a pad and paper and add up the points your earn for each of the items listed below.  You get points for general housework as well as points for Simple Daily Challenges that will be posted throughout Momma-Olympics and our focus for this event is Heart and Home with a dash of Back To School.  You can share you tallied up points at the end of the day in comments or on Facebook

How many points can you earn each day during the Momma Olympics?  As many as your heart desires and time allows!

  • Make a bed. =10 points
  • Clean bathroom sink, quick clean-up of the toilet bowl and wipe bathroom countertop. = 25 points.Momma Olympics Summer 2014-001
  • Load of Dishes =  25 points
  • Load of Laundry =   25 points
  • Vacuum, sweep, or mop a floor. =   25 points
  • Take out Trash =  5 points per bag or can.
  • Plan and make breakfast or lunch. = 10 points
  • Plan and Make dinner one night.=   25 points
  • Clutter Donate or  Toss it Away! = 1 point per item flung or donated. <<<<<—— MY FAVORITE
  • Clean kitchen sink and wipe down counters =  25 points
  • Home Office Management = 100 points for 15 minutes (finances, meal planning and scheduling)
  • Healthy You – 25 points for daily exercise or movement and 25 points for daily meal tracking.
  • Simple Daily Challenges = Up to three per day  for 100 points each.
Have a Rocking Day!

 

Heart and Home – Sweet Dreams

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Rustic Bedroom by Other Metro Media & Bloggers Dreamy Whites Momma- Olympics Heart and Home Edition – Sleep Day Three There is not one thing in this life that will give use a more productive day than a good night’s sleep. You can have the fanciest day planner, the best new Apple computer, two secretaries [...]

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