The True Beauty Of A Home 3

Hello beautiful people! Trust you had a great weekend?

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Last week we started a serial bogging on The True Beauty Of Home and today we will be talking about Plan and Planning as two wonderful friends of a virtuous woman.

Have you ever taken time to observe school children going to school in the morning? You may say, “Why on earth should I waste my time on school children going to school?” Well, I do use my time JUDICIOUSLY doing things like that because my purpose on earth is interwoven with family.

It is not strange seeing children not properly dressed and looking scruffy and unkempt to school or church. I can understand if they wear such look on their way back from school, but going to school in such look should not be encouraged.

The truth is that no normal mother would willingly accept to watch her children go to school looking so untidy but it happens. There are times when you see children not properly dressed to school, either they dressed up without host/socks or they dressed up without their school tie and when you ask why, the parents will give you  answers like, “ I noticed this morning that his socks was not washed over the weekend.” or “these children will not kill me! Do you know that I told him to bring out his tie this morning and he couldn’t find it? We turned the house upside down looking for it, to no avail and I told him to dress up like that.”

Any woman that waits till morning to gather what her children will wear to school that same morning is not organized and need to make Mr. Plan and Planning her very close friends.

What exactly is Plan? According to Oxford learner’s dictionary, plan is a detailed arrangement for something you want to do in the future while planning is the act or process of making or carrying out plans.

From the definition, we can see that plan has to do with future. There’s no such thing like, “I will plan how the children will go to school THIS morning”. 

Every home should have yearly, monthly, weekly and daily plans. This can be achieved by sequentially arranging the activities of the home for one year, one month, one week and each day. Every member of the family is expected to take part in plan and planning, while the woman of the house builds the plan. Today, we will concentrate on plan and planning with regards to wears and dressing.

Before the beginning of each week, a woman MUST ensure that the weekly wears of the family has been properly arranged. She must ensure that her husband’s and children’s wears (inner wears not left out) are neatly and properly arranged. Man of the house with the support of his wife, MUST strive (no matter how little), to ensure that MONEY for the upkeep of the family for that week is available. NOTE: It does not really matter how much. What matters is that something (money) is made available and it’s left for the woman to put her wonder working nature to action and come up with something great.

While Mummy is busy with weekend meals, etc, Daddy can help out with some chores (out of love and not obligation) and also taking the children to Salon and barbershop for girls’ hairdo and boys’ haircut. Children should be taught how to report to parents when their shoes, uniforms, inner wears, water bottles, food flasks etc. which need to be repaired or even replaced but even when this duty has been entrusted in their care, Mummy should also go extra mile to check all these things on Friday evening because children will always be children by giving wrong information occasionally. Children (depending on their age) could be sent to the nearest shoe cobbler for shoe repair and polish. Children SHOULD also be engaged and be given the task of sorting and arranging pants, singlets,  hosts/socks, hankies, ties, etc. the night prior to each school or church day. This gives them sense of responsibility, organization and planning as well. On weekends, Daddies (out of love) can also help in trimming the children’s finger and toe nails and may go extra mile in ironing the clothes as well, out of love ooo( hehehehhe! All the Daddies in the house kwenu!) The wears that need stitching should be done by Mummy. Daddy’s inner wears should be neatly stacked at its proper place BY MUMMY. Daddy’s wears that need to be cared for by Drycleaner, should be taken to drycleaner by Mummy or Daddy (depending on Daddy’s mood #winks!) or children (depending on their age).

Hope you noticed that I did not include househelps in the above sketch? That’s to tell you that you can actually do without househelps if Mr Plan and Planning are very close to you.

Form the above sketch; we can see that a family is organized, planned and ready to have less stressful and seamless activities for the week?

Did you learn anything from the above piece? Do you have something you would want to add or share with others? Do not hesitate to use the comment box below and ensure that your comment is delivered before leaving this page. Who knows, God may use you to touch a life today. Keep striving to be the person God created you to be.

Tomorrow is yet another day for another write up on The Beauty Of A Home 4

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