The dreaded bathroom... we all have them {or a few of them} and hate cleaning them. Seriously. So how to manage it all when you're short on time? I split the cleaning of our bathroom into separate days: obviously the shower takes the longest so I usually reserve that for a weekend morning {or a morning I am off of work}; the toilet is a simple clean so any day of the week works, along with the counter/sink; and the floor is done at the same time as the rest of the floors in

There comes a time when our children become of age to manage their own stuff. I FINALLY came to that realization not all that long ago while doing ALL the chores one Saturday morning... Why was I the one cleaning THEIR bathroom when I never use the damn thing?! Foolish. That's when I decided we need to tack this chore on to the list of others they do {and why you should, too!} Lord knows we won't be there forever to scrub the tub, toilet & sink and they'll move out one day

I feel like our family is the only one in America these days that doesn't have a master bath. I know, that sounds overly dramatic but seriously. We moved into our current home in 2006. We were moving from a house in the village that was built in 1843 (yes, you read that correctly) to a house in the town that was built in 1999. While the house we have now is far less maintenance than our old house would have ever been, it still is not our "perfect place." Our "master bath