Living as a mom

Archive for January 17th, 2009

There was such a great response to my cry for help with getting organized! Thank you, everyone. I truly appreciate all of the awesome tips from you organized moms out there. I have been considering the abundance of technological options out there. However, with the need for a quicker fix, I had to think about what has worked for us in the past – always a good place to start.

With the immediate need for a simple, quick, and easy solution, I finally pulled out the trusty old, enormous dry erase calendar that E and I used to use back in the day. Boy is it a monstrosity! I wonder if that is why it works for us…

I have that dear, gigantic calendar hung up by the front door in hopes that seeing it often will help us all remember what we have to do each day. I am still carrying my small, portable day timer as the master calendar, but the big one is meant to help us day-to-day. So far our good ‘ole calendar has sparked a few conversations between E and me and helped us prevent double booking ourselves. I actually feel like we are both more on the ball about upcoming events! Even C4 is asking about what is on the calendar.

I am so glad that I finally DID something to rectify this situation! Doing something is often half of the battle for me. Now the trick will be to teach C4 and A2 that they cannot touch the calendar because we will never recover from that… That’s another story, though. At least now we are on our way to getting on top of the schedule!