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A Survival Mode Chore Guide

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Often, life takes unexpected turns and leaves us scrambling to pick up the pieces. Routines thrive in regularity, but for a variety of reasons, all forms of regularity can vanish and our routines can fly out the window.

Whether due to medical emergencies, moves, new babies, death in the family, or any combination thereof, we can lose our groove and not even know where to start when our life feels nothing like normal.

You don't have to wait for life to get normal again to build routines. In fact, you can't. Making life happen is mom's job, and there are some essentials that must continue regardless of how crazy everything feels.

The basics that still need to happen might vary from family to family, but it will often consist of meals (including dishes), laundry, and general tidying.

If the survival mode has been brought on due to stressful circumstances, we want to be careful as mothers to not pass along and multiply our stress within our children. A mother's temptation is often to attempt to double-down on control when life feels out of control, but this will pass along our stress to our children and backfire.

Do not come at survival mode chores as a way to control. Do not command your children to help you because they owe it to you to make your life easier right now.

Be the tone you want to create in your home: cheerful, light, purposeful.

Mystie Repent. Rejoice. Repeat.

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