How do you coordinate a busy family’s schedule when everyone seems to be going different directions at the same time? The most efficient way I have found to deal with mine and my teenagers’ ever-changing, full-to-the-brim schedules is to have a large, dry-erase calendar in a central location–ours is in the kitchen, on the pantryContinueContinue reading “The Family Calendar”
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It’s Calendar Time!
Have you bought your 2013 calendar yet? If not, stop reading this blog post. Go buy a wall calendar, a purse calendar, a desk calendar, a family fridge calendar, refills for your Day Timer, whatever you use. Right now! Yes, really! Then come straight back. Now are you ready? First, make sure you have yourContinueContinue reading “It’s Calendar Time!”
What’s Next?
What should I do next? That question has often left me in a tizzy trying to figure out which item on my very-important-to-do-right-now list ought to be the next thing to receive my attention. Yes, I’ve read the books on prioritizing. Yes, I usually make a physical, written list of all that needs to beContinueContinue reading “What’s Next?”
A New Way to Use To-Do Lists
If you’ve been around my blog for a while, you know how much I love my to-do lists! And all of my other lists. I have yet, however, to find the perfect to-do app that will sync with my android phone and my Google calendar. I’ve tried a few that were supposed to sync betweenContinueContinue reading “A New Way to Use To-Do Lists”
How to Speed Up Pokey
Timers are my favorite tool to prod along a slowpoke and to teach autonomy to a clinger. For my dawdlers, I figured out about how long each subject should take (plenty of resources are available online for this, or you may be able to figure it out from your teacher’s manuals). After we had our instructionContinueContinue reading “How to Speed Up Pokey”
What Happens
Oops–just noticed that it’s been over a week since I posted anything! So, it’s time for a true confession: that’s what happens when life happens, even in the home of the very organized homeschool mom. I just ran out of time to write ahead, so my blog was the first thing to go. Maybe that’sContinueContinue reading “What Happens”
The Value of To-Do Lists
I love lists. I love them so much that I have lists of my lists. I have lists in several different spots. The two most important things that lists do for me are to keep me on track and to give me satisfaction when I can cross something off of one.Without a list, I flounderContinueContinue reading “The Value of To-Do Lists”
Dream Time Management or How Does the Very Organized Homeschool Mom Do it All?
I bound out of bed full of energy at 6:00 a.m. I do my daily devotions, breeze through my exercise routine, and put on my newest size 6 J. Crew outfit. As I stroll into my gleaming kitchen to make omelets and fruit cups for breakfast, my darling children, perfectly groomed, joyfully help set theContinueContinue reading “Dream Time Management or How Does the Very Organized Homeschool Mom Do it All?”
Bethany LaShell 