Friend Makin' Monday - MORE QUESTIONS

Ha ha! More questions! I love answering questions. This time though, it's for Friend Makin' Monday over at Amber's blog (here) and not just because I want to - mean, not because I've been begged to.

1. Do you cook every night?
I'd love to cook every night...but I can't say that it happens often. Usually I end up exhausted at least two days a week and we end up at Chicken Express.

2. What kind of laundry detergent do you use & why?
We go cheap here: Arm & Hammer!

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

4. How often do you eat out per week?
Twice a week or so...way too much actually!

5. Where do you usually eat out?
Chicken Express happens a lot...otherwise it's this YUMMY burgers and custard place called Freddie's.

6. What is your favorite retail store?
The Container Store

7. What's your favorite thing to drink?
Sweet Tea

8. Do you take vitamins? What kind?
I take a multi vitamin, fennel supplement, Acai Berry supplement, B12


9. What percentage of the household chores to you do?
95%


10. Do your children do chores? {Or will they, did they, etc}
Yes...Ethan cleans his room, picks up all the shoes in the living room and feeds/waters the dog.

11. Do you go to church?
Absolutely!!!

12. Do you have a housework schedule?
I do but it doesn't function well...I'm actually working on a new one as an assignment with my accountability partner.

13. Do you keep a working budget?
Ahem - we're working on that too.

14. What do you do at night as a family?
We watch tv, go for walks, go to church and have sword fights - don't call child services yet - they are foam swords I bought from Target's $1 Spot.

15. How do you prepare yourself for a new week?
Prayer, rest and double checking the family calendar.

16. What do your mornings look like?
Chaos, basically. Ethan gets up, gets dressed and brushes his teeth while I make breakfast and finish fixing his lunch. While he's eating I get ready to take him to the bus stop. After he's on the bus, I come back home and waste time until I have to get up and go to work.

17. What time do you get up in the mornings?
6am but I'm going to start getting up at 5:30 for the 5 o'clock club thing.

18. What time do you go to bed at night?
Usually after TMZ - 11:30ish. It's GOT to be earlier though.

19. How do you manage all of the paperwork that floods into your household? {bills, school work, magazines, ads, etc}
I'm terrible at organizing the bills - they are EVERYWHERE.

School papers get dealt with the moment they come in the house - homework finished, papers signed and calendars marked.

Magazines sit on the coffee table until the new issue comes in - then they get stacked on the bookshelf.

Ads are usually thrown into the trash can by the mailbox.

20. How do you keep your household organized? {calendars, charts, etc}
Organized is a relative term...HA! I'm working hard on reorganizing everything since everything changed once E got into Kindergarten. I've found some pretty great websites to help too! Lisa Whelchel's got some great info: HERE and so does Home Made Simple: HERE.