As far as I can tell, if you have children you can't have a tidy house.  It's one or the other and I seem to have opted for the children and messy house scenario. My two just do not understand the 'put one away before you get another one out' rule and move like mini whirlwinds from one toy to the next which doesn't exactly help my quest for one of those beautiful, tidy homes that I see in the glossy magazines that I religiously buy each month. So, in my quest for a tidy house, I've introduced chore charts for the kids.  I've only included the super simple jobs at the moment that they … [Read more...]