It is always kinda funny to me when someone tells me that they are impressed by my organizational skills. I can just hear the my mom, dad, sister, and three older
brothers all guffaw in my head. Seriously. Growing up, I really did have
my "own system" for organizing, aka everything was thrown into my desk
drawers and only I knew where they were. My mom would come in, look at
my drawers, see the "chaos", dump my drawers on the floor, and require me to
reorganize in a way that made sense to her. In all fairness, quite a few
CD's were ruined during this phase of my organization because none
really made it back into the case. However, it has taken me these ten
post-graduated years to realize that I actually AM organized! Maybe it
is just that I have had to find a way to organize since I am now
juggling four kids' schedules, appointments, clothes, toys, books, along
with my own (and sometime Nate's). One of the major things I am doing
right now is trying to organize schedules. I have a little planner that
has a monthly page and then each double page spread has the week on it,
set out in a vertical blocks for each day. This may sound ridiculous,
but it is hard to glance at the pages and see what is happening when
during the week because it is not lined up in horizontal boxes with
mornings, afternoons, and evenings lining up nicely. Crazy, no?! So, to
remedy my problem, I made up a page for me to ease the anxiety looking
at that planner was causing:) I printed them out in a variety of colors
and wrote the coming weeks up on the date line, so they are all ready for
me to fill out when appointments, games, playdates, etc. arise. I also
added a few other areas to keep track of things I need to accomplish
within the week: calls, emails, errands, and projects, as well as a
little spot for a weekly goal at the top, like focusing on daily
scripture study, no soda, exercising 4 times, being more patient with
the kids, my list of self improvement goes on and on... I put the current week up with magnets in the kitchen so I can quickly check what is going on for the week or add things on that I need to. If you are like
me and coordinating schedules, your list of things to do, or daily life
can sometimes stress you out, print them off and fill 'em in. And, if I
am being completely honest, I really just love looking at the colors of
the weekly glances all in a row. I am a sucker for vibrant colors. Click on each color word to download corresponding sheet. PLEASE let me know ASAP if there are problems downloading, since my last post apparently had issues. Thanks!
