… on my 12 week challenge. The good thing about this heatwave, (maybe the only good thing about this heatwave) is having a great excuse to stay inside and do some creative organizing projects, don’t you think?

Are you making progress, too? I know some of you are (yeah!) thanks to your emails and blog comments. Thanks for updating me! It’s exciting to see what you’re all accomplishing in just twelve short weeks. Exciting stuff, isn’t it?

Juel asked if I’ll be doing an organizing challenge before the holidays. Thanks for the great idea Juel. What do you think … should I do it? Let me know what you think … would you join in?

Alright … so here’s where I am on the chore system for my kids:

1) Both children now have a clipboard to use to keep track of their daily chores. That was yesterday’s project — lots of fun.

2) We’ve decided on their weekly responsibilities — for before school, after school and bedtime — and have a daily checklist to use.

3) There’s enthusiasm in the air for this new chore system. The kids are actually excited about it! Yippee! Now my job is to keep the enthusiasm going.

We have three weeks until school starts … just enough time to get into the habit of doing these chores every day. So that’s good.

What’s left to do? Well … I have to decide a strategy for weekend chores. This is when we do the serious house cleaning and laundry and I’d love some help from the kids on that. Who wouldn’t, right? But I also want this to be less structured than the weekdays … for all of us. So I have to figure out a system for the weekend chores, as well as how to make these chore lists “readable” for my daughter who can’t read quite yet. I have some ideas percolating …

More soon! Have a happy Monday!