If you are like me, you love the idea of a homemakers notebook. A notebook that will help keep you organized, on track and keep important details you need at your fingertips. However, I like to make them, but keeping up with it…well, not so much.
Why?
It becomes overwhelming.
How?
Because as soon as we have a day that takes a left turn instead of a right turn, we get off the plans in our Notebook…I panic, or umm, walk away and slide by, by the seat of my britches, grasping at dried leaves and twigs down a steep slope, ending in complete homemaking chaos, where we end up getting only the necessities done.
I don’t like this typical way of our family and the Homemaker’s Notebook, so I am working on a new one. One that, if we get off track, we can just jump back in where we were…one where it uses mainly the printables that are easily customized for our family. Umm, one that is for US, not for Mom Blogger Down the Internet Road…
I have found what looks to be the near perfect Week/Day planner for me from AmyBayliss.com. This is super versatile and can be edited in Microsoft Office, thus making it even more versatile.
I am also adding in the monthly Decluttering in 15 Minutes a Day printables from Home Storage Solutions 101.
Rather than fill in every single blank on your planner, which ever planner it is, (goals, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, etc), leave space to be able to get caught up.
If you are sick, or there are sick family members, be sure to plan less, and make room for their needs without stressing yourself.
If you have to be away for a day or two that week, be sure to plan around that. If you are going to be gone or occupied for several hours, don’t expect to be able to keep up with your normal daily plans. That is how we become overwhelmed.
Have you ever noticed if you tell your child to clean the kitchen, that it isn’t what you think of clean when you go check it out? To help your children know what you expect done in each of their chores, give them check list for each area. You can find these premade at Household Management 101 and A Virtuous Woman. I keep these checklist in my binder for my children to easily find them.
I also include our family medical info pages, a listing of illnesses, and treatments/medications. If you or one of your family members seems to have something going on, you can take these with you to the doctor to help both of you communicate what may be going on. Let’s face it, if you have more than one person sick in your home at a time, it can be hard to keep whose symptoms are whose, and who took what meds when.
I keep our daily and weekly day chores in here too. That way, I can do a quick run through with our children as to whether they have their chores done.
Make your homemaking binder a binder made for your family. God put you together like a puzzle and if you put a binder together without looking at each of the puzzle pieces it probably isn’t going to work for your family.
mother, christian, wife, woman, child of God. It is about my life as a farmer’s wife, as a cook, a baker, a nurse, a teacher, a woodworker, a housekeeper, a farmer (yep, I drive tractors, pick up hay bales, and other farm duties), a gardener. So, what you read here, is me, as a transparent sometimes hot headed, passionate, and opinionated person.
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