Friend makin Monday #1

This looks like fun so I decided to play along. You can link up to friend makin monday here. This week is a Q&A:

1. Do you cook every night?

I generally cook Sunday – Thursday. Friday is pizza night. Saturday varies depending on what we are doing that day.

2. What kind of laundry detergent do you use & why?

Right now I am using a “green” detergent I got from Shaklee. Why? Because I went to a Shaklee party and bought it. It seems to work well enough. But I mostly have used Tide HE.

3. Do you do laundry every day or loads at a time?

Depends on how ambitious I am, but generally I do a few loads twice a week.

4. How often do you eat out per week?

Generally no more than once a week.

5. Where do you usually eat out?

Since we usually have the kids with us, noisy family-friendly restaurants (like Red Robin) prevail.

6. What is your favorite retail store?

Target

7. What's your favorite thing to drink?

Coffee/Water

8. Do you take vitamins? What kind?

I take a multi vitamin in the morning, sometimes with an additional vitamin D.

9. What percentage of the household chores to you do?

I probably do 95% of the indoor chores and about 5% of the outdoor chores, so it works out pretty well.

10. Do your children do chores? {Or will they, did they, etc}

Yes, especially my 16 month old. I really make him work for his meals!! ;-) My kids WILL do chores, but right now they mostly “help” mommy.

11. Do you go to church?

No, but we keep talking about it.

12. Do you have a housework schedule?

No. The problem with schedules (for me) is usually when the day comes I don’t feel like doing whatever is on my “schedule” for the day. Sigh…

13. Do you keep a working budget?

Not as much as we should.

14. What do you do at night as a family?

By the time my husband gets home and we eat dinner it is usually around 6. Then it’s just bedtime routine stuff as my son is in bed at 7 and my daughter by 7:30. After the kids go to bed we usually watch tv.

15. How do you prepare yourself for a new week?

I try to have all the laundry caught up and most of the groceries purchased for the week by Sunday evening.

16. What do your mornings look like?

5:20 am: Up

5:30 am: Computer time.

5:50 am: Work out at home on our elliptical while watching some sort of valuable educational program such as Drop Dead Diva or Tori & Dean.

6:50 am: Shower & get ready

7:30 am: Eat breakfast and send my husband off to work. My “day” job begins (which is the same as my night job and my weekend job: full time mommy).

17. What time do you get up in the mornings?

5:20 on weekdays, 6-7 on weekends.

18. What time do you go to bed at night?

9:30 or 10.

19. How do you manage all of the paperwork that floods into your household? {bills, school work, magazines, ads, etc}

Not very well!

20. How do you keep your household organized? {calendars, charts, etc}

I use a calendar to keep track of dates/appointments. When my step-daughter is here we add the chore-chart so she knows what she can help do around the house.