Smart Habit Saturday

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This has been a great year so far! I am still going strong with my menu planning. Do you know what helps? I make the kids do it with me in our family counsel for that day and they actually have fun with it. They give me lots of great ideas and they can tell me which meals they want to make themselves. I like to have each of them in charge of one meal a week. I also have them write out our shopping list. Little do they know it's good practice for their writing and spelling skills. My eight year old is a much better cook than speller.

I also love my new one load a day laundry habit. I had some questions from you about how I hang the laundry to dry in the winter but you aren't going to like my answer. I have a Ruck Zuck in my laundry room and I love it! But unfortunately I don't know of any place in the US where you can order one anymore. We bought ours years ago.



You can always use another type of drying rack of course. I just love this one because it is very sturdy, it hangs on the wall and it folds out of the way. It works especially well hung over the sink because I can scrub things out and then let them drip dry. You can read a few other laundry posts here. I tell all about my secret ironing method that I found out isn't so secret because some of you are already using it.

Our van has been much neater this week as well but even though the clutter is gone it is still grossing me out because it's filthy dirty from muddy winter shoes. We vacuum it out once a week but I guess I will have to put up with the rest of it until it gets warm enough to go out and give it a proper scrub.

Have a SMART week!!!

If you are new and you want to catch up on last year - Smart Habit Saturday 2007

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