Words of wisdom to younger women from Lyndsay Lambert
It took some time to come up with a system to clean house that worked well for my family with a minimum amount of stress on me.
I am tempted to tell you the stories about my trial-and-error search for the right system for us. However, since blog posts shouldn’t be too long, instead of my funny stories (which are more about what not to do), I will tell you two major things that I learned from my errors:
As I mentioned in a past blog post, “Turning Little Liabilities into Big Assets,” we trained our children to clean house and help with all the work created by six people just living under the same roof. I suppose that part of this commitment came from the fact that we had four children within five years, and I was desperate!
My mother (bless her!) paid for someone to clean our house every other week for a time when my twins were babies. But that eventually ran out, and I was left needing help but not able financially to hire someone. Thus, we were motivated to include our children to help as early as possible.Continue Reading