Who is Ashley?
(and how do you pronounce her last name?)
In a nutshell…Buffa rhymes with loofah…
And…
Ashley is the mother of 10 children (yes, 10!), a business owner, a homeschool mom, and a dedicated non-perfectionist home systems extraordinaire! She is passionate about teaching overwhelmed Moms how to transform themselves from a minion martyr mindset into confident, capable, respected home CEO's.
But let’s dig a little deeper!
Who is Ashley?
(and how do you pronounce her last name?)
In a nutshell…Buffa rhymes with loofah…
And…
Ashley is the mother of 10 children (yes, 10!), a business owner, a homeschool mom, and a dedicated non-perfectionist home systems extraordinaire! She is passionate about teaching overwhelmed Moms how to transform themselves from a minion martyr mindset into confident, capable, respected home CEO's.
But let’s dig a little deeper!
I have never been a naturally tidy and organized person, in fact, I told my mother when I was younger that I didn’t need to learn to clean because I was going to marry a rich man and have a live-in maid.
<Insert extreme eye-roll here!>
I struggled mightily as a young mom with lots of littles, back to back. And by the time I had my seventh baby, I was in crisis mode daily. The house was a wreck, I was a wreck, and I just KNEW that this was NOT the life that I wanted. But as much as I knew that this wasn’t the life that I wanted, I also knew that the only person who could change it was ME!
but how???
Just because you have decided to change doesn’t mean that you actually know HOW. I kept trying random cleaning plans and systems that I would find on Pinterest. They were all great for a day or two, but not really… (I hate cleaning!)
Everything changed though once I started reading the book Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder to my children. It occurred to me that I was dramatically underestimating my children’s abilities, and I had seven of them at the time! If I could figure out a way to get everyone doing chores, and doing them WELL, our house could stay clean without any one person having to do a ton of work. Now the experiment begins!
So I committed myself to experimentation.
I knew that children everywhere used to all do chores, just 100 years ago. If anything, household responsibilities have gotten easier over the last century, not harder. So there was no reason whatsoever that I couldn’t figure this out.
So, I tried, failed, and then course corrected, tried, failed, and then course corrected, tried and failed, and then course corrected over and over again until I had a full system that kept the house clean from day-to-day and had the chores evenly distributed between all of us.
After finally figuring out the secret sauce to keeping the home clean and organized, without having to do all the work myself, and without the kids whining and crying and me nagging everyone to death, life changed for the better! I felt the freedom to finally start working on my marketing business again, and I was loving life.
It never occurred to me that I needed to be sharing this with the world, even though I was helping so many of my friends accomplish the same thing in their own homes!
Plot Twist!
It wasn’t until just a year ago that I realized it was time to share my knowledge with the world. I was pregnant with my tenth baby, and working a lot of hours for a huge online marketing company. I knew that if I really, truly wanted a fantastic maternity leave, that it was time for me to stop being an employee and a contractor for other businesses, and it was time for me to start marketing myself.
I knew that my chore system had the power to transform homes and lives because I had seen it happen over and over again. So, in November of 2019, I made the leap! The rest was history.
The Smart Kids Chore System resonated with Moms everywhere.
It was created for Moms who are:
Overworked
Overwhelmed
Tired of the mess
Tired of the stress
Ready for a BIG change!
A little bit about me:
I’ve been married for 19 years, have ten children ranging in ages from 18 to infant (8 boys, 2 girls), we have a very naughty puppy named Rambo, and a gorgeous and sweet Silver-Tipped Chinchilla Persian cat named Winston Churchill.
I dream of one day being an amazing gardener (that day is NOT today), I spent three months trying to be a Roller Derby Queen (turns out I’m not cut out for that after all!), and I’m terrible at spacial relations!
But I LOVE gourmet cooking, moonlighting as a wedding caterer, drinking fine wine, going to Amish produce auctions, and canning! I would LOVE to get to know YOU better!
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