One of my goals as a homemaker is to ensure that my home runs smoothly and efficiently. Adding our sweet little Ladybug to the mix has brought more sweet toothless smiles to our lives (when I get a picture of one, I'll post it). However, my time is in more demand, and I'm feeling a little strapped. So, I used Google's calendar tool to help me plan a general day. I usually write all our appointments and bill due dates on our wall calendar, and this does work for us, but I'm wanting something that I can have with me at all times. So, if I'm at a Familia class and someone asks what I'm doing on such-and-such day, I can actually tell them.
So I am looking to purchase a planner. Something I can fit in my purse, but that has enough space to actually use. I'd like to keep my menu plans in it, along with a perpetual grocery list. I found one planner that really looks like something I'd like and that would work for me, but they seem to be all sold out. Perhaps I should have thought about this a couple of months ago instead of the beginning of January.
Any suggestions? What do you use, if anything? How do you keep track of your appointments and such?
Friday, January 2, 2009
Looking To Plan
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I use that planner you linked to, but I use the summer to summer one. I recommend you get that format for several reasons: first, once your kids are school aged, you will need to have a school-year-at-a-glance format, even if you homeschool. Often even activities you may do with a preschooler function on a "school year" calendar, with summers off. Secondly, you will always have more time in July to "switch over" to a new calendar than you will in December or January.
I have, over the years, found "temporary" address books to be useful. I have my permanent address book, and then I have the one where I put phone numbers of "current" businesses, friends, teachers. Granted, I move often, so these things all change often. But that's where I put the doctor's phone number and the piano teacher's phone number and other names and numbers I don't necessarily need to keep permanent, but are also the ones I might need more often when I'm out and about. I keep these numbers in there, and about half of them need to be transferred to the new book when I get it.
Also if you do menu planning or other things like that, you'd want to transfer that info over too. It's better to do it in the summer, I promise.
The summer version planners go on sale in April. In the meantime, I would get a cheap-o day planner at the grocery store or an office supply store and use it until summer.
Thank you so much for your advice. It makes a lot of sense to do it that way. I have started doing a few preschool activities with Fritter, and I can see how it would be benificial to plan summer to summer, instead of through the calendar year. I did things that way while in college (and at the time couldn't imagine living without my planner), but once I graduated, I didn't even think of planning while at home. I'm learning a lot more about the effort it takes to keep a home and raise children while still maintaining my own sanity.
I went out a bought a $4 planner from Walmart, and am really enjoying using it. It keeps me focused and is a great compliment to my HMJ. I plan on purchasing the good planner in April, and am so excited to use it!
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