True or false: Your biggest issue with the chores isn’t how many you’re doing, it’s that no one else is helping you.
What did you pick – to-do list overload, or I just need some helping hands and I’m good?
See, I know some moms struggle with too much on their plate. But I kind of think the root issue is not how MUCH they’re juggling, but that they’re the only one doing said juggling.
Let me explain.
The burden of solo housekeeping
Say you’ve got the recipe planning, meal prep, actual cooking, kitchen cleanup, and fetching groceries.
If you’re doing every single one of those tasks, start to finish, by yourself, pretty soon you feel like no one’s lifting a finger to help you with the food.
Because they aren’t.
Your biggest issue with chores is that no one is helping you.
What it feels like to get help
But what if you planned the recipes, asked your husband to pick up the Walmart order on his way home from work, got your kids to unload it, had them meal prep some basic ingredients for you the next morning, and you did the actual cooking when it came time for supper?
- What if you then enlisted help clearing the table of dirty dishes, loading the dishwasher, washing the non-dishwasher-safe items, and wiping down counters?
- What if someone else swept the floor?
- What if all you had to do was put away leftovers?
Now you won’t feel like you prep all the food, make all the food, and clean up from every single meal – all by yourself.
You lose the resentment of “I do the cooking AND the dishes and no one ever helps me.”
Isn’t that the kind of uplevel you’d love?
Psst – this is exactly the kind of mindset shifting we do in #Momlife Made Easy! Because I know you’ve got years and layers of mom-culture programming to undo before you can fully settle into your life as a mom who gets help.
And that’s exactly what I work with you to reprogram – ‘cause it’s not just the cleaning schedules and chore routines that have to shift. It’s you.
So if that sounds like something you need, join me over here in #Momlife Made Easy!
See, I used to think that being the mom meant doing everything yourself.
- All the cooking, all the food prep, and all the grocery shopping
- Each and every cleaning task, each load of laundry
- And most definitely all the kid shopping (outgrown shoes, new raincoats, etc.)
But that’s not true, is it.
You’re part of a team, and teams mean everyone does the work.
How to add your kids to the housekeeping team
So as soon as your kids turn five or six, add them to your chore list. (Even if it’s just “you’re my potato scrubber” and “move the wet laundry to the dryer for me.”)
Every little bit helps!
I want you to get one thing off your plate ASAP.
Just one. Little. Thing.
What’s popping to mind for you? What do you know your kids could do, right now, with little to no prep or training?
That’s the one.
Sign it over to them permanently, set your reminders (since they probably won’t remember right away), and get (part) of your load off.
Help is right around the corner.
