Clean House With Kids

By Tricia Regar

Practical tips for keeping house with littles. The author gives helpful ideas for time management, keeping up with the laundry and dishes, and how to create a stress-free home environment--even with kids!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Apr 11, 2016
• ISBN: 9781365022005

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Clean House With Kids

Clean House with Kids

©2016 by Tricia Regar

All Rights Reserved

Printed in the United States of America

Cover design by Jamie Flanary

Instagram account: @myidealprints

Introduction:

A Little Bit About Me

I've been asked many times how I came to be the girl behind Clean House with Kids. Was my house always clean and organized? Who taught me all of this?

So I decided it was time to tell you a little of my story.

I was raised by an incredible mother, in a white-walled house that was always clean and organized. There were six of us kids, and my mom homeschooled us. We woke up and went to bed at the same time every day, and we each had our own chore and  school charts taped to the  kitchen cupboard.

My parents taught us an amazing level of self-motivation. Looking back, I don't even know how they did it. It helped that we were homeschooled and able to work at our own pace.

I knew that I could graduate from high school as soon as I finished a certain amount of school courses, so I set an almost-impossible completion date for myself and worked toward it every spare minute I had. In my mind, there were so many things I wanted to be doing (research and writing at the top of the list), and high school just seemed to be holding me back. So I worked ridiculously hard, doing multiple lessons a day, until I reached my goal and finished high school a few months after turning 16.

I spent the next few years reading and writing, homeschooling my youngest sister, and babysitting (for pay). In the years after high school, I knew I wanted to be a homemaker and mother, but I'd been so focused on school that I felt I needed to learn more about keeping a home. Learning from my mom seemed the perfect choice, and as I worked with her, I referred to myself as a homemaker-in-training.

Now, fast forward several years to when I'm married, with two little girls, 13 months apart. No matter how much experience I'd had in homemaking or babysitting, motherhood and keeping house was a brand new experience, with all kinds of challenges and struggles! My pregnancies were also very difficult, with months of my being either too sick or in pain (from varicose veins) to keep up with all the household tasks. So many times, I'd have a