Classy Classic's By Kandis

Does it ever feel like the day just slows down? Time almost stops when your waiting for it to fly by? Evening just blurr together, especially on the nights mommy needs a shower haha. Hello and welcome to Classy Classic's By Kandis for another routine blog! This one is our evening one! This tends to be the busiest time of the day! I'm not sure if it's because everyone is home now, or if it is because mama is ready for her day to end lol! Either way evening can get long and I tend to need my routine to stay on track for this time of day! What does an evening look like in our house of 6! My evening routine is roughly from 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm. This is yes counting my relax time ideally from 9:30/10:00 - 11:00. I try to be tucked in bed around 11:00 pm, as 5:30 am comes oh so fast! With the evening we start it at say 6:00 pm at supper! Supper comes and goes, then comes dishes, clean the table off, get the kitchen wiped down and a quick sweep! This usually will ru...

Hi good morning and welcome to Classy Classic's By Kandis. It's another week, another start, another routine. There is always time for a strong routine. When placed in the right time zone can be extremely helpful, thrown together, and not thought about is just a waste. In my mind it is that is! I have routines to help set up my day! Between all the demands and different job tasks that are required as a stay at home mom, it can be difficult to remember, coordinate and accomplish it all. I will point out that it is not our job to do it all. Remember " you can do anything, but you can not to everything" this is a saying I'm trying to keep in my mind! It can be hard when there is always something that needs to be done, and always someone that needs some mom time. How to do it all. In my afternoon routine it is broken down to help me on track and focused. I get detracted really easy! With this I can keep my mind focused for a couple minutes as most tasks...

Good Morning! Birds are chirping, sun is coming up, and kids are waking up! Coffee is brewed and mamma is enjoying a cup! Mornings can be hard, whether you have kids in school, or little ones at home. In my case I have both, and I tell you my morning routine is proving to be very important here for a smoother morning! Hi I'm Kandis and welcome to Classy Classic's By Kandis. As I said I am a mother of 4 kids, a daughter who is 10, and 3 boys ages 8, 2 1/2 and 8 month old! Things can go from 0 to wow in no time! I have learned that we need a strong morning routine here. Do you have a morning routine? Let me know, how does it work for you? I hope whether you have a routine or not you enjoy this blog on our morning routine and how we try to get the older kid's ready and out the door for school, and mamma gets a couple things done. Let me know in the comments if you liked it, and I will be getting ready to post the afternoon blog here next! Here we go my morning c...

Have you heard the expression "you can't have your cake, and it it too"! I have always been the type that says "watch me", I'll make it, bake it, and have it too! Lol I always say "can do anything, give me 24 hours". Anything can happen in 24 hours! There is a actual reason why my friends said the doctor was a smart man, not putting me a boot. I will keep going, always something to do. Little by little, task by task it will all get done. Here is a fun fact about me lol I have troubles focusing on one task. I have squirrel brain haha. I will be cleaning one spot, do the mistake of taking something to another room, to put away.p then see something and start tackling that. It can be hard to complete one task, and so it never feels like I got much done because I am so everywhere. These week's I have not be able to really do that. With not being able to just be on the go, bounce from here to there I had to be focused on the task at hand....

Hi good morning and welcome to Classy Classic's By Kandis! I am a mother of 4 wonderfully energetic children. Two of my children go to school. My oldest she is in grade 5 this year and my oldest boy is in grade 4! Can you believe its the middle of September! This is marking our second full well in school! I was sitting down the other day, finally getting to watch some of my YouTube videos, and a lady who I love to watch... Sam from Happily A Housewife had a video on about school, and routines and getting back into it. As I was watching this, I thought I would do a blog on back to school. Link for vidoe: https://youtu.be/cNXx0HPXJTE Now, I decided this before but my ideas had changed as she said at the end of hers the first week goes smooth. Everything is on time and routines are smooth, and life is great. It's when after when things are going back to normal, and it's not as new is when you can see if your routines work for you! Now I agree, however I am w...

It's funny how every year it can be the same! You know it's coming, you prep and prep, give yourself a self calm talk. Mark it down in the planner, but still get stressed thinking about doing it all. Hi I'm Kandis and welcome to Classy Classic's By Kandis! Every year in our town we get a "case lot sale". I stock pile what I can for the winter, this is also where and when I get my peaches! ❤ When I do peaches, the smallest batch that I purchase is 80lbs!😮 Yes, the lowest is 80lbs! Why so much, and what do I do with it all! Let's talk about stocking up on peaches! Well let's start at the beginning. The cases are 20lbs each, so get them loaded into the house, I then sort them, softener and still hard. These get sorted for time frames and what is being used for what. I do/ make with these: canned half peach jars, jam, peach leather, and of coarse some sliced for in the freezer for easy asses for mostly pies! Oh I love stocking up on pea...

When growing up the garden was always there. My mom always had a garden, if you had the room you grew a garden! That was how it was. We learnt never to say we were board, especially when mom was in the garden! You were not going to be board long, she made us help with the gross potato beatles! To this day I remember how gross they were and I am oh so thankful that I do not have them! I think it was the kind of potatoes that she grew. I remember getting into trouble for my best friend and me eating all her peas, or chewing up the green onions cause it made out spit green! Haha oh the memories in the garden. Those memories have changed a little as I am the one planning, planting, weeding and pulling, prepping and so on. With this said I could not imagine not having a garden. It's a lot of work, but the outcome can be so great. The years have changed and out weather is not the same.... by know means. It has almost been freezing here already and it's August. With t...

Oh back to school! Back to school! It's not even to prove that we are not fools! Haha good show... Oh boy anyways, hello and good morning welcome to Classy Classic's By Kandis. Can you believe it's August already! I sure cannot, where did the time go, all those summer plans, and hot day as laying around catching a tan, and late night fires. Now all of a sudden we are getting the kids to try on their clothes and out with the old and getting a list ready for the new. Looking over the supply list and mapping out the best way to get into the city for it all and then get out. How long do you wait till you start getting their stuff ready? We have filtered threw all the clothes and got a list started for supplies. I try to have some going already, however this has proven to be a different summer! I know I need to do the school supplies which we don't need much, as our school does a program where you can order some or all and it will be ready and waiting for them...

Do you remember when you were a kid and summer was all you thought about? Comparing summer plans with with your friends, making plans, day dreaming of late nights and fun in the sun! When you came out of the day dream summer was over already and your mom was packing your school bag to head back already! Summers have always been a fun, busy time. I imagine kids these days feel the same, however now that I'm not the kid and the mom, I understand more of why my mom did certain things in the summer. Hi everyone and welcome back to another blog here on Classy Classic's By Kandis. I am a stay at home mom of 4 wonderful children full of more energy then the dang energizer bunny I tell ya. With all of this energy they sure get "board" a lot in the summer! Boy oh boy, I thought I heard mom I'm board a lot with them in school, get the  home for 24hrs a day, and you better have some stuff up the sleeve. With how quick summer flys by, and having appointments in th...

Good morning and welcome back to Classy Classic's By Kandis. As a stay at home mom of 4 children of the ages of 10,8,2 and 5 months I have a kid in each stage right now,😥 and let me tell you something. As the babies were growing I look back on some days now and think I wish I would of been more patient about school days. When the first two were younger as there's a bit of a age gap in between the first two and the second 2, I remember I was excited to be getting that time when they were in school, to have that time to get stuff done, they would be great going to school and for some reason in my mind school days were going to be this great rainbow gummy bear feelings. Well..... As the 2 have been in school for a could years now as they will be heading into grades 4 and 5, I now think of how nice it was before we had this crazy school schedule. Way to want your cake and eat it to lol. School days get hard as once they start that is what it is then for many years to come. ...

Hi everyone and welcome to this weeks blog on Classy Classic's By Kandis!  This blog let me tell you is a little bit of a hot mess haha like me this week has been just go!  Don't think, don't over plan, just go! Sounds crazy right? I agree and I feel the effects of it I tell you. With the count down to last day of school on, schedules are winding down for activities and other priorities are arising, no wonder my coffee intake has increased haha. I made a decision to make a mind dump for the month. Yap the whole month! This will be helpful for the big tasks that will require short spirts over multiple days. I will of course be using my weekly planner, however with what feels like repeatedly rewriting the same tasks over and over, and feeling like I am accomplishing nothing....even tho as the basic chores still get done, to break the big tasks down into little ones over the week's, might be more motivating. That is where the June brain dump came into play, and I...