The Clean House Calendar

 Good Morning!   My name is Britia, it's pronounced like the water filter. I live in southwest Missouri with my husband of 25 years.  We have one college-aged daughter and a sassy yellow lab.  I'm a retired middle school math teacher, a beginning gardener, and I'm recovering from breast cancer.  Finally, I'm kind of a neat nick but, confession time, I have messy closets and cabinets.  As a new mom, I struggled with caring for my daughter and managing our home and I realized I needed a plan to get my housework done, food on the table, and care for myself and my family.  I did a little research and came across FlyLady.  She had a simple plan I thought I could follow.  As I worked through her plan I realized I needed to tweak it a bit to better meet my needs.  As the years went on I tweaked, then I tweaked some more, then I tweaked a little more and finally, I created The Clean House Calendar, a planner to get my home clean and organiz...

 Happy New Year! I spent December really evaluating my current situation and planning for 2021 and the future.  I have several goals for the new year and one of those is to have this blog up and running.  So expect some positive changes here on the Clean House Calendar blog. One of the things I was able to do last year was to get the 2021 Clean House Calendar Monthly Calendar created and ready to sell in my Etsy shop.  However, due to some changes at Etsy, my shop is closed right now.  Good news for you, because I'm giving the first 6 months of 2021 to you as a freebie. While I was away teaching I started using the Happy Planner.  Stickers are so much fun.  So now I decorate the Monthly Clean House Calendar with stickers as well.  Here is how I decorated mine for the month.   Remember the Clean House Calendar Monthly Calendar is designed to print on 11 x 17 paper.  I have an old comb binding machine so I punch and bind my calendar t...

2020 kicked my butt.  But, now I'm ready to kick back.   A Little History In 2014 after being a stay-at-home wife & mother for 13 years I decided to go back to work part-time as a substitute teacher. The truth is, the first year I didn't really enjoy the job, so I was very particular about when and where I subbed, and keeping up with my home was easy.  The next year, I ended up taking a few longer-term positions and even more importantly getting called back to sub for the same teachers.  I got to know the students and they got to know me and I realized I was ready to go back to teaching full time.  So I applied, was offered a position, accepted, and began teaching again in the fall of 2016.   The students were challenging and I had to work hard to stay ahead.  I went in early and stayed late.  I worked at home a lot.  But, I loved my job.  At home, I  managed to get not let the dishes or laundry get too out of hand and...